As raw, brutal and over-simplified as it may be, I do believe that the above picture captures the essence of the two battle approaches...

I hope to find more of the pictures that have been, in numerous occassions, intentionally edited in the international media: the ones originally showing palestinian terrorists hiden and firing from behind walls/baricades, with children in front of the wall and israeli soldiers at the other end, only to be seen in mainstream media later on showing the opposition of the soldiers and the children, but having the palestinian fighters removed from the image.

I find it a bit of a sad joke to say that Israel gets undeserved protective media...If there is one battle that Israel has definitely lost in the last years, it's the media one, where it has been outclassed by Arrafat's perfectly executed strategy of using his own people's human shield as main public speaker.

"Words do not express thoughts very well"

"They always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish".

I finished reading "Siddhartha" and after few hours of trying to grasp all that had I had been communicated, I felt the need to capture in writting the thoughts, questions, shocks that the book has given me...

It's impossible though, first and foremost reson being the one mentioned in the above quote. I don't have the writting skills and the mastery of words to write these down in least a decent, coherent form...

So this is just to let you know that i've had a most wonderful and awakening afternoon. It will get even better, I'm sure, once I start it again and discover some of what I've surely mised in the first reading..

"Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish...Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it."