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Newsletter 150<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

August 15, 2026<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UNDER THE HEAT DOME
S.O.S. ISRAEL \/ LEBANON (3)
S.O.S. PALESTINE (3)<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dedicated to Torsten Wiesel, Elias Corey, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, the Dalai Lama, Roald Hoffmann, Mario Capecchi<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

& to the loving memory of Desmond Tutu, Ilya Prigogine, Joseph Rotblat, Maurice Wilkins, Christian de Duve, Jack Steinberger, Fran\u00e7ois Jacob,
of Martin Luther King & Thich Nhat Hanh<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\n

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1- Under the Heat Dome<\/strong>
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\u00ab\u00a0For the fifth time this summer, Europe is sweating under an intense heat wave. The signs of a persistently hot and exceptionally dry summer are everywhere. Brown, dusty patches have\u00a0replaced\u00a0verdant lawns in London\u2019s parks. Major rivers like the\u00a0Danube\u00a0and the\u00a0Rhine\u00a0have retreated, exposing sandbars. The conditions have created a tinderbox for wildfires. Forests in Germany and in Bosnia and Herzegovina were ablaze on Friday, while firefighters were battling to save thousands of acres and hundreds of homes in Britain, France, Greece and Spain.\u00a0\u00bb
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\n Heat is Hammering Europe Again, The New York Times<\/em>, August 14, 2026\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n 4 a.m. in the cool of the night, somewhere in Europe. The earth is parched and scorched, all former green spaces are withered, yellowish, dusty. Under the lime tree you walk on a dry, crispy carpet of dead bracts, dead Tilia fruit, the likes of which you had never seen in a lifetime. You can feel the suffering of trees. It has not really rained for weeks on end. Not even thinking of the thousands of them which were engulfed in forest fires.\n
\n As for the feeding function of fields, we know that wheat harvests are going down.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sixteen thousand<\/strong> people died from the heat during one peak week of June in Europe.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n Hundreds of thousands have since been in slow, silent agony. You should take the subway in London or Paris to check out on faces. We know it isn\u2019t any better in New York with temperatures close to 90\u00b0F, Memphis or Dallas (over 100\u00b0F in the afternoon). 95\u00b0F in Hanoi, 88\u00b0F in Saigon and Gaza.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Some cities are blessed with temperatures in their seventies, depending on the waters next to them, the altitude. The Question of the Place and Climate. Die Frage nach Ort und Klima<\/em>, more than ever. Nietzsche, Ecce Homo<\/em> (1888).\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n This is a whole brand new world out here. Much more serious than the covid pandemy. We\u2019re actually suffocating, sweating and frying, gasping for breath. Forget what Miller called The air-conditioned nightmare <\/em>(1940-1945). Breathe. Consciously. Deep consciousness, and cognition. On the way to conscientious objection.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Conscience and consciousness, two faces of the same coin.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Call to Conscience<\/em>. Martin Luther King (December 5, 1955-April 3, 1968)\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n First, breathe. Deliberately inspire.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n One of the lessons learnt in Middle Bosnia, during their civil war : if you want to survive, you got to think fast, act slowly<\/strong>. Slowly : deliberately, in full mindfulness.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n You might as well resort to Thinking, Fast and Slow<\/em>. Daniel Kahneman (2011).\n
\n Or, shorter, simpler yet, on the threshold of the oven, of the furnace, or one step into it, The Miracle of Mindfulness<\/em>, Thich Nhat Hanh (1975). Wisdom from Vietnam. 1975, the year the U.S. mighty army had to finally go home, with all their B52 bombers, Huey helicopters, Patton tanks, after they had lost 47,434 lives in combat, and killed three million Vietnamese out of forty million then, during the twelve years of their full military involvement. Have we forgotten the many lessons of Vietnam and its Fog of War<\/em> ?\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Now there are over a hundred million human beings in Vietnam. With a fertility rate slightly under 1,9, whereas it has fallen to 1,6 in the US, Australia, New-Zealand (and France). [Underneath 1,5 for Russia, Germany, Cuba, Switzerland, the Netherlands, for that matter ; underneath 1,4 for Canada, Austria, Greece ; underneath 1,3 in Spain, Japan, Italy\u2026].\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n So, that is where we are now, in insidiously dying peoples, caught within persistent heat domes, with Millennials and the Z generation that seem to have lost the lust to live and transmit.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n By the way, if you care to wonder, the vitality rate is of 4,3 in Yemen, 3,13 in Iraq and Palestine, 2,7 in Israel and Egypt, 2,6 in Syria, 2,5 in Jordan, 2,2 in Lebanon (but 1,66 in Iran). In Israel proper, among the religious Jews, you count close to 7 children per family, as opposed to around 2 among secular couples. Go figure.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2- S.O.S. ISRAEL\/GAZA<\/strong>
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\n Why should we start this Letter with the richest party, aware that the Gross Domestic Product per capita \/ Purchasing Power Parity in Israel is close to $ 70,000 (IMF source for 2026) whereas in Gaza it fell down to $161 a year at the end of 2023. Did you know ?\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n A ratio Gaza\/Israel<\/strong> of 1,6 to 700 : of 0,22 to 100<\/strong>.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The average monthly wages in Gaza today are around<\/strong> $100<\/strong>. 85 \u20ac<\/strong>.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Whereas the Tel Aviv beaches are filled with suntanned scantily clad crowds, the Gaza beaches are covered with refugees\u2019 shabby tents, displaced families who\u2019ve been surviving in tents for three years. Barely some forty miles away in straight-line. Not to speak of the Ashkelon beaches, a dozen miles North of Gaza City.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Again, how do you fancy this, surviving with $100 per month<\/strong>\u2013 if you get lucky<\/em>. about 85 \u20ac<\/strong>.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Just facts and figures. No a priori<\/em>, no bias. Facts speak louder than speeches.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Granted that some remain stuck in the distant past, were the Germans forced to survive with under two hundred euros a year<\/em> until 1948 ? Or the Hiroshima people, for that matter ?\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Check it out. Look around. The poorest people on Earth, in Yemen, forty million Muslims live with about $ 300 per month \u2013 is this why they feel such instant solidarity with the Gaza people ? In South Sudan, thirteen million people have to survive with $ 130 per month. By the way, South Sudan was created ex nihilo<\/em>, carved out of Sudan, in 2011, fifteen years ago.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Comparatively, Palestine has been vying for statehood since 1988, close to forty years now, and who knows where the files of its statehood have been spirited away ?\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n So, again, why should little Israel take provisory precedence (S.O.S. Israel<\/em>) over its Palestinian counterpart at this stage ? \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Now the heat is rising here, in this tiny office (two square meters). 77\u00b0F. No ventilator. Still, we have running water and electricity. What would it be under a thin layer of material under the sun, in a refugees\u2019 tent, reaching 90 to 100\u00b0F ?\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n You need to know something : the Gaza people are very ordinary people. Among them you find employees, students, architects, shopkeepers, waiters, nurses, teachers, masons, surgeons, the whole usual range. I can testify about it, after working there in education for six years. You did meet ideologues and dogmatic civil servants, leaders \u2013 whose sin<\/em> was to blindedly believe in the armed struggle, without ever weighing the schematics of interactions, the whole gamut of consequences \/ but who really d<\/em>oes that anyway ? \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n The vast majority<\/em> of the people were peaceful, busy with making ends meet, studying, passing exams. I stayed there long enough, walked the walk, observed all of them in daily life. I can testify.\n<\/p>\n\n\n

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\n As can be seen, I took this picture at the end of July 2011, on a beach in the North of Gaza, during the day-long gathering of thousands of kids, brought in buses by UNRWA young monitors, in an attempt to beat the Guinness record of the most kites flown simultaneously, until then held by Chinese kids, with some 11,000 kites, if my memory serves me well.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n And guess what, on that last Thursday of July 2011, these beautiful, innocent kids of Gaza, gathered by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency teams at al-Waha Beach, did win<\/em>, with 12,350 kites<\/strong> flown simultaneously ! Guess what too, the wind from the South was blowing towards Israel. Al-Waha Beach is less than one mile from the border with Israel<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check with United Nations News, Palestinian Children Break World Record for Kite Flying<\/em> :
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or with ABC News<\/strong>\u00a0:
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\n Fifteen thousand kids guided by the UNRWA teams. This was Gaza to me. Of these fifteen thousand kids of 2011, how many of them were killed, or maimed, in the last three years ?\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n How did the media North of the border report the event ? Could you find one reference ?\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n So, yes, pity the Northern neighbours<\/em>, who were not told<\/em>, not informed, who could not see<\/em> any<\/em> picture of these 12,350 flying messages of peace and joyful hope. S.O.S. Israel too<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n The underground war machine in Gaza was something else, a secret forbidden kingdom in its own right, that nobody was allowed to penetrate, that nobody would talk about, that was just surmised. You had two distinct worlds in Gaza : the surface life, and the underground. A few hundred men, at most, knew, and would go back and forth between the two. The rest of the population prefered not to know, not to inquire.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n How many times, in all these years, did I ask leaders, insisting to visit a smuggling<\/em> tunnel to Egypt<\/em>? Again and again, I was denied any<\/em> possibility of access. Speaking of the Westward <\/em>tunnels, not the taboo ones to Israel.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3- S.O.S. June-July-August 2026 \/ S.O.S. LEBANON<\/strong>
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\n In June 2026 we sent three S.O.S. messages worldwide, to Nobel laureates (standing for common sense and unstoppable human progress). S.O.S. ISRAEL \/ S.O.S. LEBANON \/ S.O.S. PALESTINE. In the background, you could read S.O.S. IRAN. Refering to the people<\/strong>, not the state-nations as such. Their explicit end was to express conscientious objection to warfare in Lebanon, in Gaza, in Iran, in the West Bank \u2013 and in Israel<\/em>, as a tidal effect.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n We were sinking fast then. In Lebanon, twelve children were killed and maimed daily, even after the Hezbollah-Israel truce was agreed, in the wake of a U.S.-Iran deal reached on June 15<\/strong>, including \u2018Immediate Termination\u2019 of any fighting in Lebanon.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Two months later, August 15<\/strong>, what do we find ?\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11 killed in Israeli strikes on Ansar and Deir Zahrani, highest toll since cease-fire<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n L’Orient Today, August 15, 2026\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lebanon: UN peacekeepers count hundreds of Israeli strikes and incursions in a single weekend<\/a>
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UN News, August 10, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel Captured 230 Square Miles of Lebanon, Razed Villages and Built New Bases<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Yarden Michaeli, Bar Peleg,Yaniv Kubovich, Liza Rozovsky, Haaretz, August 5, 2026\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UN says Israeli demolitions in Lebanon \u2018deeply concerning\u2019<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Al Arabiya, August 1, 2026\n<\/p>\n\n\n

Was July different\u00a0?<\/span> Mansouri, the village divided by Israel’s ‘yellow line’<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

\n Yaea Sarkis, L’Orient Today, July 25, 2026\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel continues detonations, drone attacks, military operations in several districts of south Lebanon<\/a>
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L’Orient Today, July 19, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In infographics: How 4 months of Israeli attacks and war devastated Lebanon<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Enzo Quenescourt, L’Orient Today, July 17, 2026\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IDF pushes deeper into Lebanon as questions grow over long-term strategy | ynet reporter visits Beaufort<\/a>
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Elisha Ben Kimon, YNet News, July 12, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Its Deal With Israel Stalls, Lebanon Fears Being Stuck in Same Limbo as Gaza<\/strong><\/a>
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Haaretz, July 8, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel rules out withdrawal from Lebanon, Syria and Gaza<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mai Anati, The Jordan Times, July 4, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4- A matter of method\u00a0: Open the Doors of Info<\/strong>
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\n You noticed that half our sources are from Lebanon, L\u2019Orient Today<\/em>, We started following them in March 2026, as they offer insight from inside, less state-controlled than the media in Egypt or Jordan. This is part of the approach here : if you want to get a less biased view of what is going on, you have to leave the fast highway of comfort zone media, and cross borders. You have to listen to what the others concerned have to say, the Lebanese, the Egyptians, the Saudi Arabs, the Jordanians, the Syrians, the Turks, the Iranians, the United Nations people\u2026\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n You do not escape wild fires and dangers through blinders and cervical rigidity.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Now, seemingly, the United Nations has lost much of its weight and influence, to be supplanted and replaced by the United States. Not quite the same vision of Unity or Union. Judge by the results, What does this brave new world order look like ?\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Before the summer of 2026, who could put names on the fifteen key Middle East countries\u00a0?
Before April 2026, who knew where the Hormuz Strait lies\u00a0?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before July 2026, who on Earth knew where the Bab el Mandeb Strait is, and what countries border it\u00a0?
Before March 2026, who knew what the neighbours of Iran are\u00a0? Or even how many people live in Iran, for that matter\u00a0?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Americans are known to be wholly ignorant of world geography. Are Europeans any better\u00a0?
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\n The following selection of articles from nine sources (3 American, 4 Israeli, 1 Lebanese, 1 British) may read like a descriptive chronology for July 2026 :\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CENTCOM considers relocating US bases from Gulf States to Negev after painful Iran strikes – report<\/strong><\/a>
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The Jerusalem Post, July 2, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Israel is destroying my country\u2019: Tucker Carlson to start third party after GOP break<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n YNet News, July 2, 2026\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Global Economy, Hit by Iran War and Inflation, Faces Sharp Slowdown<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Alan Rappeport, The New York Times, July 8, 2026 \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inside Trump\u2019s Oval Office Decision to Ditch the Iran Ceasefire<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Vera Bergengruen, Alexander Ward, The Wall Street Journal, July 8, 2026 \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Never-Ending Race to the Bottom<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n David French, The New York Times, July 12, 2026 \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Trump Failed to Secure the Strait of Hormuz in His Iran Deal<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Edward Wong, Michael Crowley, Eric Schmitt, The New York Times, July 12, 2026 \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war with Iran weakens Trump ahead of midterm elections<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Joe Macaron, L’Orient Today, July 19, 2026 \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Dead End to Trump\u2019s \u2018Perfect\u2019 War<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times, July 25, 2026 \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All about the POTUS in the media (President Of The US) \u2013 to be continued :<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump holds off major Iran escalation after Pentagon warns of interceptor shortage<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n YNet News, July 26, 2026\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump Seems Trapped by Iran War, Even as He Wields the World\u2019s Biggest Hammer<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n David E. Sanger, The New York Times, July 26, 2026\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump decides not to escalate Iran conflict as Middle East interceptor stockpile decreases – report<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Tzvi Jasper, The Jerusalem Post, July 26, 2026\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 600 US military service members injured since Iran War began in February<\/strong><\/a>
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Brandon Drenon, BBC, July 27, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s the Missile Interceptors, Stupid: Trump Discovers the Price of His War<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Oded Yaron, Haaretz, July 27, 2026\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full text: The Board of Peace roadmap for the implementation of Trump’s Gaza peace plan<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n The Jerusalem Post, July 31, 2026\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

US tells citizens to prepare to leave Mideast<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Lior Ben Ari, Itamar Eichner, YNet News, August 1, 2026\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

US has used ‘virtually all’ of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war, sources say<\/strong><\/a>
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\n Adina Renner, The New York Times, August 6, 2026\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s top general seeks Iran war \u2018off-ramp\u2019 as US military options narrow<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n YNet News, August 8, 2026\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pentagon said to ask US arms firms to speed up output as Iran war exhausts supply<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n The Times of Israel, August 9, 2026\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Netanyahu Rejects Trump\u2019s Plan to Disarm Hamas<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Aaron Boxerman, The New York Times, August 9, 2026\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The one approach to the Iran war that is guaranteed to fail<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Max Boot, The Washington Post, August 10, 2026\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Huckabee condemns ‘horrific terror’ against Palestinians in West Bank, says embassy ‘very involved’<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Shir Perets, Goldie Katz, The Jerusalem Post, August 13, 2026\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

US fuming at Israel for allowing \u2018anarchy,\u2019 rampant settler violence in West Bank<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n The Times of Israel, August 13, 2026\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frustration with Trump grows among U.S.\u2019s Persian Gulf allies, officials say<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Susannah George, The Washington Post, August 15, 2026\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Paradoxically, this fourth part which was labeled S.O.S. Lebanon<\/em> to start with, ends up practically defined as S.O.S. USA<\/strong>.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5- To Conclude for Now \u2013 as of mid-August 2026<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n As far as we can see from what precedes, this thing, the March 1 Attack, is not working. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n The March 1 Attack : the massive aerial assault on Iran by the Israeli-American alliance.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n It is not working, from a technical, objective point-of-view.\n<\/p>\n\n\n

A complex equation, indeed, with fifteen players involved (the Gazan, the Israeli, the American \/ the Lebanese, the Iranian, the Omani \/ the Yemeni, the Saudi, the Egyptian \/ the Jordanian, the Syrian, the Iraqi \/ the Pakistanese, the Chinese, the Russian). All revolving around the historical hinge\u00a0: Gaza.\"\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7\ud83e\udebcAn<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

A simple obvious truth\u00a0: we<\/em> have burning issues<\/em> to deal with, all of us. The Water warming problem and the Droughts, as existential priorities. The recurring oppressive Heat waves. Did you know that four days ago, on August 11, both in 2025 and 2026, tons of jellyfish clogged the cooling system, impaired the functioning of the largest nuclear plant in Europe\u00a0? The connection\u00a0: warming seas favor the reproduction of jellyfish.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other than from invasions of jellyfish, \u00ab\u00a0France has seen nuclear power production disrupted by multiple heatwaves and droughts this year, with EDF shutting down several reactors in June and July because of extreme heat.\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0 \u00a0Le Monde<\/em>, August 11, 2026<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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\n In this glaring light, the Middle East is far from pressing concerns for North America and Europe.\n
\n Take another look at the maps : the days of MM. Sykes and Picot\u2019s agreement to share the land from Kirkuk to Beirut according to British and French interests (1916), the days of Colonel Lawrence, have long been gone. And history has taught us that the Americans, when they step in, don\u2019t do any better than the British and the French \u2013 from Vietnam (1963-1975) to Iraq (1990-2003). \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n \u00ab Do they know history ? \u00bb\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Facing growing emergency situations provoked by excessive heat, and the rising numbers of climate refugees ; since this thing of an endless war \u2013 from Ukraine to Iran and Israel\/Lebanon\/Palestine \u2013 is not working<\/em>, we have to ask whose interest these protracted wars really serve, apart from the main beneficiaries among arms-producing companies. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Do we have to ask, or is it that we\u2019d rather not investigate (among the Nobel laureates in Economic Sciences, who has been researching the field ?) ? The list of war profiteers yet is no state secret, it\u2019s out there, in the open, for all to find out :\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.sipri.org\/visualizations\/2026\/sipri-top-100-ranking-2024<\/a>
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Some of these companies draw over 90% of their total revenues from arms revenues. To name but eight of them\u00a0: Transeuropean KNDS (100%) and MBDA (99%)\u00a0; the French Naval Group (98%)\u00a0; the Israeli Rafael group (98%)\u00a0; the British BAE Systems (95.4%)\u00a0; the American Northrop Grumman Corporation, the Israeli Elbit Systems (92%)\u00a0; the American Lockheed Martin Corporation (91%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Forget the big notions for a moment.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Remember the Vietnam veteran who turned from a fighter to a preacher when he came back home , his pledge more than fifty years later : \u00ab I\u2019m sick of the war. I\u2019ve been in combat and seen the destructive nature that people assume the longer they are in war<\/strong>. \u00bb\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n We\u2019re all sick of these wars. It\u2019s all too much, much more than we can live with normally. What war does to you, even if you are not in a combat zone, and too old or too young to carry a gun : they waste your everyday life, they waste your precious time on earth. Filling your saturated mind with false news, angst and worries \u2013 how will it all end ?<\/em> will it ever end ?<\/em> \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n It is our job, one and all, to tend to the first victims of war, truth and trust<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Restore them, redeem them.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Opening the doors in the heart of the night, to let the cool in.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Learning to live a new way of life, step by step.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n No need to panic. No need to repress or suppress.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n No time to waste. Three affirmative Nos.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n The good news is in the news<\/em>, once you get the broad picture, in depth.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sapere Aude<\/em>. Dare to Know. Knowledge leads to courage \u2013 and vice versa.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n The risk was to drown into toxic disgust, of voluntary servitude and ignorance.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Rushed into recurrent emergency modes, to escape this spiral of a distorted sense of time, we should celebrate the present instant of acknowledgment<\/em>. Reassess priorities, pivotal shifts.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Redefine shelter and shadow, refuge and fortress, shield and rampart…\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Not willing to close mind and ears out of confusion, but rather to reopen them slowly, deliberately. Stronger, more focused, as we seize and strengthen every instant of awareness. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n To heal the destructive nature that we all assume the longer we live through unwanted wars, re-energize with strong multiplier effects of the instant. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Redeem the moment, to stop the self-defeating sprees.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Redeem the news, and pass it on to higher levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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