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Matas asked me to buy Matzen. Matzen is traditional Jewish bread - no yeast. Like crackers. Sure we buy Matzen. But whaaa, it feels like a stone. Just as every time in Israel I would get mad realising another case of injustice of the “screaming to heaven” sort and Manar would say, please, no politics, I would keep it like swolen stone inside of me.

After having seen with my own eyes things over there, it becomes more and more difficult to distinguish between the nations and politics. Olmert is not the same as Amos Oz, Putin is not the same as Tolstoy, Sarkozy is not Bourdeau and Bush not Thoreau. It is probably one of the biggest challenges of humanity I guess - to separate nation from politics. It would be better not to have a nationality concept at all. Just people living in places, as it was not soo long ago. And making politics not a matter of national pride, but as a business to meet the needs of people living here and now. No wonder, that Gaza explodes. As long as Palestinians don’t have even water, things will stay as they are. And the gay community in Lithuania will face the same reactions as those days as long as the children won’t read anything about homosexuality as a fact in their schoolbooks, and there will be others after Bush leading religious wars as long as the idea of evolution will stay banned from many schools in US.

One state solution in Palestine is just as unimaginable as, let’s say, France today with a president with Algerian background. Although issues are so sensitive that one can hardly put these chronical wounds of the society in comparison. Why still societies and not SOCIETY? One thing. Not only in Palestine. We are all in one sinking boat. Same boat.
Global citizenship is not a matter of natural process. It is a matter of political will. Just as it was and is a strategical goal of EU to create a EU identity adjusting structures to it and providing financial injections to anything that supports the idea, it is the same with any kind of identity. It is an illusion to think we are individual and free in our thinking.

Just as a graffiti in Tel Aviv says. Custom made. We could and would think in a different way about nationalities, economics, gays and lesbians, if there would be a different political will. How can we get around I wonder?