Today it has been raining the whole day and I hardly left the house so here are two pictures from Saturday showing the street life at Kalanderplatz in the middle of the new built, industrial chic, shopping center Sihlcity.
On Monday Israel stopped a ship convoy going with food and medicine to Gaza in the most brutal way. The ships were boarded while still on international water by armed and masked troopers killing nine unarmed people. The people on board the ships were no terrorists or criminals but well respected people like doctors and politicians. A famous Swedish author, Henning Mankell, was there and also an Irish Nobel prize winner.
It is unbelievable how Israel doesn't give a damn about anyone but themselves. They totally take the law in there own hands and show no respect what so ever to human rights. This has been going on for so long against the Palestinians but we in the west have somehow continued shutting our eyes plagued with guilt for what happened to the Jews during the second world war. Now when they are treating Europeans the same way as they treat the Palestinians daily we can no longer pretend as if it is not happening or in any way justify their actions. It's really time to remove them from under the protective wings of the west and make them face international charges. We should shut them out from all international trading until they start complying to international law and human rights, just as we did against South Africa until they abolished apartheid.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is very complex and it is difficult to know who was originally right but to continuously violate human rights and to build protective walls and turning the Palestinian territories into ghettos is morally detestable and wrong. It is impossible to understand what the long term goal is for the Israeli. Nothing they do is going towards a stable and sustainable solution. You really have the impression that they just want to erase the Palestinians from the map. Even if the Israeli think that they are right in this conflict, how can they want to live like this? Every Muslim country in the world, even the moderate ones, hate their guts and soon also all the western countries. In every relation, if it is between two people or between countries, you sometimes have to take a step back from what you are convinced to be right and make a compromise that in the end will make your life easier and happier. You have to stop being so damn stubborn to make the world a better place.
Well, now to a completely different matter. I heard the official song for the World Cup 2010 in South Africa on the radio the other day and it is sung by Shakira. I really love Shakira and the song is not bad but I can't for the world understand why a Colombian artist is selected to represent South Africa? When I tried to find an official reason by googling I didn't find one but at least the South Africans seems to be quite upset about it as well and also a blogger that had some other concerns about the song.
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