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Status Update: "The Coming Back"

Retweet this button on every post blogger I haven't been blogging for a long time now, and as you can see I'm trying to make up for the wasted days! The reason being I was really getting tired of the futile discussion about Gaza. It steps on your nerves and strains your brain cells when you see people discussing things they wouldn't have discussed had it been another country that was involved other than Israel. Back to the chicken and the egg discussion, occupation and security, Shalit and blockade!. For me the facts were clear so I decided to step down for awhile and leave the blogosphere to those who have something to do better than argue with those who don't believe in people's rights to live!

And since it's been awhile, I think it's the right time for the occasional Status Update!!.. I say occasional because it's totally random and based on my mood, which swings faster than a child's cradle!

Weather: 8.5
I can still enjoy the glorious outdoor activities which in the summer would be a dream.

Social: 7.5
Something is cooking!! but I still don't know how it'll end up!

Financial: 4
A major leakage point has been discovered and there is no sign of stopping!!

Professional: 8
Surprisingly things are going pretty well!! I hope I didn't jinx it just now.

Health: 7
Same same baba! I need to go to the dentist though.

Insomnia: 6
Still lingering at the same level as before. This is a chronic case that I have been suffering for the past 10 years, and shows no sign of letting go!

Overall: 6.9

Same score as the last time, which I remember was somewhere mid November!What I have gained in my social life and my health I paid for dearly and is balanced out by the evaporation of Money!!

It would interesting to see how the coming few months will look like!! A major change is forecasted somewhere around June!

An interesting new Gadget by Facebook (Touchgraph)

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Being an engineer I can't help but to be fascianted with anything that looks like a diagram. Lines and arrows going left right and center. Circles growing bigger or smaller shifting from left to right and vise Versa!

Some smart guy came up with this idea, and I find it one of the coolest ideas any nerd has come up with. This diagram shows you your friends and the way they are interconnected, and based on their connections to each other they are clustered and color coded!! So you can easily identify those who are you college friends, school friends, colleagues, family, and even one night stands!!

In this diagram for example, you can see a name that is fighting for my place!! His circle is very close and almost as big as mine!! Can you imagine if this guy was severed from my life!! the whole network will be heavily disturbed!! :-)..

Facebook... Cool stuff!!

How the world looked at Gaza Differently

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During the past few weeks we have witnessed another episode from a non-stop series of killing and massacres Israel has orchestrated in the holy land! A land, they

claim, has been promised to them by God!! And this is basically the most basic reason why this state is on the face of the Earth. What is funnier is the fact that they are getting all support needed from all the Western, and supposedly “Secular” countries!.

However, during this episode we have witnessed some changes!! Things that never really happened before! Or at least for as far as I remember. Gazing at these changes and dissecting them might come up with conflicting feeling for all parties. It can be very confusing, and probably will not help any party coming up with any conclusions, or make any prediction. Or, let’s be more specific, unpredictable predictions!! But I choose to look at the overall picture! Change is good. Why? SImply because it means things are not going the way they have always gone! And this, undoubtedly is good for us! And I can argue, for the world! For the first time the Arab Countries have publicly taken sides! Different sides that is. While the Egyptian government has shamelessly taken the side of the aggressor along with a couple of those governments, Other Arab states showed the same level of solidarity with Palestinians as always! Albeit useless and lame! Turkey, one of the biggest Muslim countries, a key player in the Middle East, and usually one with an independent decision! have criticized Israel with a new tone! Harshly, uncompromisingly and straight in the face. They refused to receive any Israeli diplomats, and on several occasions called this operation a crime and a massacre. It is important to note that Turkey has always been considered a close ally of the US, and a close ally of Israel as well.

MR. Erdogan made his voice, and his nation’s, clearer on where he stands and walked out on Perez and Davos. He felt offended simply because Perez and Israel as usual try their best to fool people by twisting facts and reversing irreversible arguments; like who came first, the chicken or the egg? It’s obvious, you are the one who is breaking the law by occupying other people, end of story.

BBC, CNN and the rest were forced for the first time to extensively cover the events in Gaza and show the world the ugly face of Israel. Because the simply couldn’t avoid the fact the Aljazeera International has its reach, and people can actually watch on it what happens. So the state of denial and masking the facts had to be tuned down by these station, although they made sure every single time they show a dead body, the stick the sentence “Hamas is firing rockets”. As if Hamas and the Palestinian should have rolled down and died silently. I think Al Jazeera is doing a great job, and I always thought that somebody must do this job. Telling the story to the world, in its language that is. I personally got sick of Arabic channels telling you the same story over and over again, on every occasion and evey anniversary! WE KNOW THE STORY!! THE WORLD DOESN’T YET!. More and more people around the world started opening their eyes and looking at the atrocities the Israeli government is commiting in Palestine!! And it’s safe to say that the European governments can not keep ignoring their citizens for a long time, if those citizen grow sick and tired of the ever forgiving policies that their country implement towards Israel. Those demonstrations in Denmark, Norway, UK and other European countries probably didn’t help the people of Gaza that much, but it can be a good indication that there is still some goodness in this world, and that people can actually look beyond religion, ethnicity or the Holocaust Guilt to see the real and contemporary tragedies in this world.

Hugo Chavez and Morales. They probably have their own agenda, and they should. But they proved to me and two millions like me just how pathetic the leaders of the arab world generally are. Again, they might not be the most influential countries in the world, but how about we try to make them be. Just a theory, if Saudi, Iran, Venezuela, Libya, Algeria form some kind of coalition like the G7 for example. Don’t you think they can exert enough political pressure to do whatever they want in their regions? The answer is yes they can! But No, God forbids Saudi does such a thing! How can they ever do something useful. Just one more thing before I wrap up. One mindless idiot, or probably more, came out after the infamous Arab summit, which I think has been ranked top of the list on the world’s laughing stocks, and said we should not allow non-arab countries interfere with the Palestinian issue. Whisper “ Turkey and Iran “. You mindless losers, what is it that you’ve done to the Palestinians to play the role of the guardian of the Arab world and say such sickening sentence!! They are afraid of a new Ottoman empire!!. You know what, if Turkey decides to invade the Arab world, I’ll stand on the gates of Aleppo waving a Turkish flag, because we have reached a new level of mediocrity that we can actually co-habit with cockroaches!!

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Fun Facts

Retweet this button on every post blogger 1- 30 years ago: The computer mouse was invented.

2- The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.

3- The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knee.

4- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

5- No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

6- When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.

7- Starfish don't have brains.

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Today’s Dose Of Wisdom: The Future

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Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future

John F. Kennedy

I think that is exactly what happened to us

The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Many thanks for the Palestinians

These days, people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

Vernon Cooper

True…

When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.

John M. Richardson

Us again…

Sevilla Player Fined for Showing Solidarity with Palestine

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Josep Guardiola, the Barcelona coach, has joined the growing list of people to criticise the recent fine handed out to Sevilla forward Frederic Kanouté.
Kanouté was fined €3,000 for revealing an undershirt in support of Palestine after scoring against Deportivo La Coruna in the Copa del Rey. Among those who consider the fine to be unjust is the current Barcelona coach.
Speaking to Sport, Guardiola said, "The fine is absolutely excessive. If they always banned these type of things, then journalists would not be able to write columns."
Pep finished by saying, "Every war is absurd, and too many innocent people have died for us to be fining people for things like this." The positive thing is that someone, albeit Muslim, had the guts to show solidarity with Palestine in Europe!! Moreover, A Spanish guy “Guardiola” Criticized the Football Association for fining him!