Experiences, reflections and impressions about my everyday life in Hurghada. And others. My main blog is in German and I'm not able to update all in English, sorry for that.
Sunday, July 27, 2014
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Who is the owner of the holy land?
Here's a video, that shows in a sarcastic way who became the rulers of Palestine and how he reached that position:
I found this on: Free Arabs.
I found this on: Free Arabs.
Sunday, July 20, 2014
Butchering in the Gaza strip
This
morning, I had already started a text about Israel and Hamas, but soon I
deleted it. Yet now, I cannot contain myself anymore:
Only today,
at least hundred civilians (that are real human beings: babies, small
children, teenies, mothers, fathers, elderly, disabled!!!!) have been wilfully butchered.
The pictures show cruelty, they show people seeking shelter in basements. I
cannot understand why nobody wants or can stop those lunatics… or should they
not be stopped at all? Hamas sacrifices Palestinians and Israel does the same.
Do human lives not count at all in politics? Do we live in the darkest middle
age? Who gains from this slaughter? Spontaneously, I see: jihadists, especially
IS (the new Islamic State that is in my view the next, most serious danger
outside of the region). Hence, Hamas is digging its own grave and Israel provokes
a savage war.
The attacks
are happening in Ramadan, the holy month of the Muslims – this is like
our Christmas and Easter. Hundreds of thousands have fled to where ever and
several hundreds of Palestinians were killed these days by Israelis.
The Near
and Middle East hosts already enough extremist and jihadist-groups and their hateful
worriers with Al Qaida, Ansar Bait El-Maqdis, the Muslim Brothers, IS, Jabhat
Al Nusra, Hamas and others.
Hate breeds
only more hate. How hateful must the Palestinians be with good reason? By this
butchering, only more hate will be incited and more bloodthirsty jihadists will
be born!
Does nobody
really see the danger coming from the Near and Middle East for the adjacent
regions? Is the West so happy that all the jihadists bustle in this region and
that they have allegedly got rid of them? The shot might sooner or later turn
to be a boomerang. Nobody intervenes, to beware Palestinians, Syrians and
Iraqis from these extremists – this won’t go well for long. Beware of what lies
ahead of us!
Addition:
The ultimate inhumanity show Israelis, sitting outside
in the evening, watching rocks bursting in the Gaza strip and cheering them as
well as celebrating each dead Palestinian.
How lowlife!
I feel ashamed about the silent Western politicians!
The lost people II
In May I
posted an appeal for help. It was about helping the Bedouins living in the Red
Sea Mountains after they had lost all their belongings due to the torrential
rains in March. Thanks to all of you who contacted Robby Schropp and to all my
friends for their confidence and support.
Off the
lorry tracks, Robby and the Bedouins built a market place between 2009 and
2011. Here, producers from the interior met with purchasers from the coast who
sold cheese, eggs, meat and wool. A huge water reservoir stored the most
precious good in the desert.
Before choosing
the site, the council of elders was contacted and none of them remembered having
seen deluge of water in this area. The site was considered as safe – however,
nature decided differently.
Please have
a look of what has become the market place:
Whether the site can be rebuilt any time in the future is unclear for lack of funds. If you wish to help, please get in touch with Robby or with me.
Monday, July 14, 2014
The small difference: to act or to look away
Hundreds of
Millions of people are watching on TV these days, how 22 men are scrapping over
a ball. The event is called World Football Championship and is a huge money
factory orchestrated by the media. With the half-finals at the latest, even
those fall for it that usually don’t care about this ball game. Everybody watches.
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Our error
By „our“ I
refer to people like me, who grew up in the West with liberal and democratic backgrounds.
Therefore, I guess I am not the only one.
By „error“
I refer to all those hopes for a better (Arab) world projected into our minds
by the media when the term „Arab spring“ became a meaning. At the latest in
November 2010 I started to ask myself how long it would take until the
Egyptians would get up jointly to rebel against the dictatorship; now, after
more than three years, I feel disappointed and frustrated, sometimes sad. But I
am not alone, here as well.
Nostalgia
Egyptians
will probably not so soon feel as united, hopeful, proud and happy as they did
during the demonstrations after the 25 January 2011 and until Mubarak’s
overthrow. Those were thrilling days charged with emotions. Built-up during
decades, suppression, fury and anger about injustice and despotism finally
found a way out. All Egypt burst with joy and celebrated the alleged triumph. A
wave of enthusiasm splashed over the country: streets were swept, garbage was
cleared away and at one go with the dead buried, harm was put away.
The huge
hope for equity, an honest Egypt and a better live were smashed with specific
and terrible events and lay astray like broken fragments after a bomb raid.
Today, more than three years later, Egypt is further away from a state of law,
democracy and respect for human rights than it was in January 2011. Instead, it
is celebrating another dictator and considers him as their saviour.
None of the
many of Egypt’s problems have been resolved and none of the people’s demands have
been fulfilled. The transitional and elected governments came and supported the
regime – yet not the revolution. The revolutionaries are locked behind bars,
disappointedly turned their backs, flew abroad or got killed. The state is de
facto bankrupt and is being kept alive by foreign financial backers. Are the
people too weak?
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