The threat to our Zionist enemy is our intellectualism

BEIRUT - If you are convinced about something, you have to examine if you are really practicing it or at least promoting it from time to time.

Yet we all are convinced about whose land in Palestine it is and -- guess what -- we are willing to do anything to get it back including fighting for it.

So if you grab an atlas, or check the latest maps you would probably not notice the change. The word Israel has been there for quite a while. If you are wondering where those maps were printed, well most probably they were not printed too far from where you are now. I bet that a few years from now, no one would even notice this change.

What is happening now is not enough. What makes you believe that your enemy is telling you the truth? Why have you been rejecting all what the enemy has been saying? How do you make sure that a decision they took was based on something you said or did?

I believe there is no "do" part, it is only "say." Are they really affected by what you are doing or planning to do? Are we really planning to do anything?

It has long been said: "Know your enemy." Do we know our enemy? Even if we do, how come the enemy knows us better than we know about it? I know that finally we would certainly win, God knows how, but I am sure we would prevail.

Does that mean we might develop new plans, or is it just spending more time listening to each other? It could be one of those miracles, which we always wait for to happen. Then if they do happen, we hope they would not take long.

If I really had time, then I would try to find out if it was more difficult to live with an enemy rather than to fight it. Which one do you think involves more guessing. Of course this does not mean if you get closer to someone it would be easier to deduce his/her acts, but being exposed increases the chance for being caught.

What needs to be done is as simple as comparing two types of toothpaste. Before and after peace is part of the naming convention that is quite fashionable nowadays.

But what really differ today are the circumstances here around. The Zionist enemy has a clear policy for banning us to do what it considers to be prohibited activity. The enemy is trying to hold us back from being educated and intellectuals not suicide bombers. It could be the great fear in this whole scenario that would bring Israel to an end and not what our enemy keeps promoting on its televisions and magazines.

If we could really evaluate the threat an intellectual person imposes on Israel, then we might be able to realize that it would be a great push forward if we lessen the constraints our enemy is imposing on our intellectual welfare. Or we could at least work on similar levels.

Ezzeddeen Jradi is a Lebanese computer expert in Beirut's Astrolabe IT. He contributed this article for Alternative