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I wanted to write about the Ariel boycott, or about the chances of a peace after the last night deadly attack or about social media in the Middle East, or maybe about Rosh HaShanah, but, as I didn't write for a long long time, I will take it very easy and will focus on books and movies. Meanwhile, maybe we'll get more about Ariel and the peace, perhaps after Rosh HaShanah.

Question?

Following the conclusive question from the beginning of a performance of an amazing dance company from Israel: "we, here, in the Middle East, we cannot talk about flowers, birds etc. We have other problems to face. Hence, the presence of the social and/or political messages in our works". Period.

Re-staaaart!

Restoration

I've read recently several articles about the restoration of the synagogue from Beirut. With various lectures in the Arab blogosphere relating this "event" with the debate regarding the mosque/cultural center from the Ground Zero: "yes, we can, look at us how generous we are with them".

Exactly those arguments gave me the benefit of a huge doubt about jumping high of happiness after reading what it is happening in Lebanon. Because, no, I don't think so that the building of the mosque/cultural center from the Ground Zero is a welcomed decision: at least at the symbolical level, it is not about time to embrace wholeheartedly such an initiative. As for the Beirut case, there are synagogues built for a community decreasing from a year to another. And, yes, in Iran, the Jewish community is represented into the legislative body. Just saying...