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When I was younger I had my own theory about The Peace Process. It was a bad idea. My reasoning was that Jews came together when bad things happened. When we suffered the Holocaust, we banded together, and forced the countries of the world to give us a state. Every time we were attacked, we successfully countered. As I put it at the time, we are like corn starch. We're naturally not that strong and we tend to dilute, but the more pressure that is put on us, the stronger we get.

So, time went on, my opinions flipped around, I was for peace, I wasn't for peace- it's not an easy issue. One of my lines was that as a Jew I supported Bibi (this was during the election, mind you), as a human, I supported Peres.

Now, I look at a country that has nobody to fight, but itself. The people are dividing up into smaller and smaller bits, each one trying to prove themselves. With no plant eaters left to eat, the Tyrannosaurs began eating each other.

At the moment, there is a threat from Saddam that we could get bombed. With the state of Israel in a general malaise, the people hating the government, hating each other, the intelligence agencies failing, Iraq is something that could band the people together. Miracles don't happen when everything is hunkey-dory, they come in desperate times. Israel needs another fight to work off some steam.

So, I think it's kind of depressing. Not the fact that people are going to die, though that's not among my top five encouraging thoughts for the day, but the fact that after looking into it, asking, seeing for myself, and careful thinking, I've gone back 360 degrees to where the whole thing started off.

That's really annoying. It's like how in medicine, after thousands of years changing procedures, we've determined that natural herbs, or leeches can be the best thing. Despite all these thousands of years at research, we now know why it's good what we do, and we also know that it-would-have-been-better-for-everybody-involved-if-we-had-spent our-time-elsewhere.

Is this why Disney's Carousel of Progress lets you off exactly where it picks you up?

All I want to know, is that when we look back at the roads of intellectual pursuit, that it just doesn't turn into one big roundabout.

Get me outa here!!!

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Michael Kadish

"If it moves, it's a rat. If it's not moving, it's a dead rat." - Batman: The Animated Series

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