It’s been a very long time since I have written. I used to write regularly on my blog “Rhythm Within” and looking back now that was a form of therapy for me to express my inward dialogue onto paper to really engage with the content and examine my perception of life. My perception… Notice I use this word deliberately as this is not reality. There is no definite reality. My perception is unique as is every other persons’ and entity on this planet that is self-aware. 

The Israel and Palestine conflict is a serious topic at the moment. There are facts. There is well documented history about this region going back to the time of Abraham and before. If a person could take the time and look at these facts objectively and sit with them without bias one would be able to hold many truths evident simultaneously at the same time. This is a completely rational and conceivable notion. 

The purpose of this blog is not to recite historic fact and point out who did what when and how. The point is to emphasise that it is possible to hold many truths evident simultaneously and to be free to discuss these truths simultaneously without fear of victimisation. It is important to disagree! It is necessary to disagree! Would we be anywhere if we all subscribed to the flat earth theory because we were fearful of the church’s wrath? No! People study evidence over time and make conclusions and actually in that day and age to challenge the church most likely meant death or expulsion. We have it so good now.

What we have now is a society that is weak. Weak OPINIONS that cannot stand to the task of holding true when tested against the evidence. We have weak men who feel that success is quantity over quality whether it be woman, money, career and the list goes on. We have woman who want to be equal to men but forget that their power is not that they are equal to men but in fact completely different and possess power in ways men could never comprehend. It’s no coincidence that society is taking this path. Follow the money. Follow the gingerbread trail of bullshit that media is feeding us. There is nothing more successful for media than for society to be divided. Us vs them. Men vs woman. Non binary vs binary whatever the hell that means. Palestine vs Israel. Is this coincidence? NO!!! wake up! Follow the money! Follow the incentive.

If you are unsure why someone does anything try to understand what they stand to gain from that stance. Try to understand why the USA supports so many proxy wars. Is it because they are the moral high power in the world? No! it’s no longer the case. It’s to launder billions of US dollars to these proxy wars in order to avoid scrutiny of congress which would otherwise take decades in some cases to resolve. The money that the USA sends to Israel can end poverty in the USA for good but that would take years being passed and debated at senate. Conveniently a war starts in Ukraine, the most corrupt country in Europe and billions of dollars flood there overnight as aid. A war starts in Israel and Gaza and billions of dollars flood there overnight. Follow the money. Look at the evidence. The world is not fucking flat! WHO BENEFITS!. Allow yourself to have inconvenient and uncomfortable conversations with yourself and others. Challenge your perception! 

I don’t support a side in any conflict. I look at the evidence. I don’t support Hamas or Israel. I look at the evidence. I condemn any acts of violence towards another person. 

I have fought since I was 8. As an amateur boxer and a martial artist. I have physically put myself in rings to physically assault other human beings. It’s not comfortable. It’s the most unnatural thing a person can do. Violence, even controlled violence, is not our natural state of being. It is uncomfortable. All these keyboard warriors calling for blanket bombing of civilians and a siege on a population and invasions of schools and hospitals imagine this scenario…

 You’re standing in front of a Palestinian child or Jewish child. Look at them in the eyes, speak to them. Ask them their dreams and wishes and aspirations for life. Then while they express with joy their wildest dreams blow their legs off with a grenade. look at them in front of you. Smell the smell of blood. Feel the texture of the blood as it flows down your hands. Listen to their screams. Hear their pain expel from their chests as it peaks and crescendos as death most certainly comes. Then watch that child take their last breath. Drag them to a patch pf dirt. Dig a hole and throw them in. Do you really think you can do this in real life? This is barbaric. No person has the right to decide the fate of another’s life in that way. But we have a bunch of keyboard warriors calling for  this exact type of violence and justify it as human shields caught as collateral. Everyone has a fucking plan until they get hit in the face as Mike Tyson famously said. 

Follow the evidence. Who stands to gain from atrocity? Who? The children? The woman? The men? The so called adults? The moral west? Who? This question should make you uncomfortable. Sit with it. Be uncomfortable. Don’t be weak. Be conflicted!

There is a force in this world that is becoming very evident and is becoming ever bolder that wishes to separate us. This, in my humble opinion, is pure evil. Be aware of this, See it. Everything in this world is pointing to making us a more united people. The internet. Information technology. Our intuition. Our internal moral compass. United we are unstoppable. One humanity seeking a life that is good for all. Divided we fail helplessly and are stuck in forever wars. Who benefits. Open your eyes. Don’t be full of hate. Be full of discomfort as then you know you are alive and you are growing. Embrace each other. Find common humanity and for God’s sake stop picking a side. Listen to the truth of the universe and this is always love. No exception. The universe exists only to expand and this is only achievable through harmony.

Only with stress and strain do we grow. No more. No less. Be uncomfortable with uncomfortable dialogue and converstation.

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