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| NEW PRESENTATION |
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| New Presentations |
We are now preparing a new presentation about what it is actually like to live in Israel today - everything that goes to make up Israel's vibrant and very special way of life. This presentation will feature different aspects of modern life in Israel - the major cities, cultural life, antiquities and historical sites, unique locations, like the Dead Sea, Eilat and the magical city of Jerusalem.
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| FREEDOM TO HOPE |
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BREAKING NEWS |
When we look at the photos and videos of the demonstrations in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, it is impossible to ignore the eruption of hatred toward Israel and everything Israel represents. It is impossible to ignore the fact that, in any and every type of political gathering that includes Muslims, the deep and unfathomable hatred toward the State of Israel immediately comes bubbling to the surface. More than thirty years have passed since Israel signed the peace treaty with Egypt, yet the hatred continues to simmer under the surface, like red-hot lava that is just waiting to burst free and destroy everything in its wake. How is it possible that this hatred has not lessened - even a little - in the three decades since that peace treaty was signed.
This hatred is rooted in the ancient tribal culture that existed in the Middle East before the political-national divisions. Each tribe viewed the other as a threat to its existence, and the only solution to this existential threat was to destroy the enemy tribe. We can witness this same culture in modern-day Africa, where one tribe will cross political-national borders in order to wipe out a rival tribe. For that matter, this same culture is at the basis of the hatred existing between the different types of Islam - Sunni and Shi’a.
The establishment of the State of Israel aroused the same destructive instinct in those tribes that had become political entities, leading to the 1948 War of Independence. The Arab states translated their failure in this campaign as a blow against Muslim and Arab honor, and the hatred continued. The 1967 Six-Day War and the continued defeat of the Arab states made this hatred even deeper. Leaders with foresight, like President Sadat of Egypt and King Hussein of Jordan, understood that there was no viable future for this tribal culture, and that disagreements should be resolved through negotiation and discussion. The Arab masses, however, remained with their tribal culture - destruction, extermination, war.
Western civilization prides itself on the right of every individual to live his own life as he wishes, and to enjoy freedom of speech. Several days ago, about a hundred radical Muslims marched through central London and burned a U.S. flag during the 9/11 memorial service. Just imagine a group of Jews in Cairo, demonstrating for Israel’s right to uphold the blockade on Gaza….
There is no doubt that we are in the throes of a war of cultures. This war is raging between those who believe that every person has the right to live his own life as he wishes and enjoy freedom of speech, and those who believe that every person has the right to live - only as long as he belongs to the right religion; a culture that divides the world into believers and unbelievers, a culture that worships death over life, a culture that seduces its believers with a myth of 72 virgins.
The State of Israel, by existing as a representative of Western culture in the Middle East, is at the focal point of this war of cultures.
So now – help me to decide – if Israel removes the blockade on the Gaza Strip and allows a Palestinian state to be created on the territories of the West Bank, dismantles all the settlements and divides Jerusalem – will the hatred go away then?
Udi
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ARCHIVE
January 2008 the Sderot - Ashkelon - Israel problem
So what exactly is the problem - despite fifty rockets today and forty yesterday - not enough Israelis are getting killed?
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Sderot - In Between Rockets
Sderot has 20,000 men, women, children and lots of babies, and it has been turned into firing range by the Palestinian.
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Israel - October 2006 - Aftermath
Israel is a land of extremes. Its population is deeply polarized. This is not new.
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A Bloody Game of Poker
The latest events in Kfar Qana prove once again that the Hizbollah knows how to play its cards well.
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Thoughts on “Hamatzav” (the Situation)
So I don’t really know how to combat the increasingly critical press, in the UK, and world wide.
These comments on the current situation in Israel were written by a close friend – currently on Shlichut.
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Targeting Civilians
The latest events in the Middle East present a new set of tactics in the conduct of warfare.
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I miss David
This week, Jews all over the world will gather with their families to retell the ancient story of the exodus from Egypt.
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| Who We Are |
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The Goal |
Conceptwizard is not an anonymous organization. Udi and I are a married couple, living in central Israel, with two grown-up children. We spend many hours creating our presentations and info page, and answering as many of your letters as possible. We do this voluntarily, after our regular bread-and-butter jobs. Udi runs a design studio,which specializes in web site and commercial presentations design, and I work at the Israel Sport Center for the Disabled.
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We created this web site because we care deeply about the future of our region, and we feel that we have something to contribute. Our goal is to provide quickly viewed educational tools to help people better understand and explain the roots of the Mid-East conflict.
CONTACT US
udi@conceptwizard.com
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| About This Web Site |
This web site and our presentations are freely accessible to all. We are not financially supported by the Israeli government or by any of the big Jewish organizations.
By buying our CD-ROMs you are participating in our effort to keep this web site going, to design new presentations, and to keep you informed of the latest happenings in Israel.
With your help and donations we can also re-create our presentations in languages other than English, so that the message can be delivered to an even greater number of people.
Our CD-ROMs are available for US$25 each.
You can order CDs or make donations through
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| MEDIA MANIPULATION |
Who can forget the heartrending video clip of young Hadil Ghalia running over the Gaza sands, looking for her family? There are many parallels between this and the photos of 12-year-old Mohammed al-Durah, caught between Israeli and Palestinian gunfire. Yet, there are so many inconsistencies in both scenarios that we should at least stop to question the genuineness of what we are being shown.
Whether or not Hadil lost her family as the result of a stray Israeli shell, or the explosion of a Palestinian device or mine, is of little consequence. She lost her family, as young al-Durah lost his life, because she is living in a war zone.
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| THE GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
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HAMAS WINS THE ELECTIONS |
Disengagement - interim conclusions -
or what I learned up until now about the disengagement
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Hamas wins the elections in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Are the Palestinians fed up with the corruption of the Palestinian Authority? Or did they vote for Hamas because they support their agenda?
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| AN IMAGINARY - OR NOT SO IMAGINARY - SCENARIO |
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HUMAN RIGHTS? |
An imaginary individual decides to visit his imaginary relatives. He collects his wife and imaginary children, prepares a suitcase, and sets out. In order to get to his relatives, he has to pass through a barrier...
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Why shouldn't we REALLY treat the Palestinians in a more humane way?
This is a question that we are often asked in the letters people write to us after seeing our presentations
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| THE JERUSALEM REPORT |
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Conversation on the Beach |
Propaganda on a Shoestring
With unexpected success, a Kfar Saba couple takes on Israel's information battle
Hanan Sher
"Imagine" is one of four remarkably simple, hard-hitting and effective Internet presentations created by Udi and Mal Ohana to help Israel in the information war.
A husband-and-wife team from Kfar Saba, northeast of Tel Aviv, she's an English-language editor-translator, he's a graphic artist. Huge numbers of surfers have clicked onto their presentations over the last year; and they have won praise - but no financial support - from bodies responsible for official "information" efforts.
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By Solly Ganor
About half a mile from where I live in Herzliya, on a hill overlooking the Mediterranean, stands an old mosque. It was built during the Middle Ages and a Moslem holy man is buried on that site. The holy man's name was Sidney Ally and that is how the mosque is known to this day.
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| TERROR IN EUROPE |
200 human beings lost their lives in Spain yesterday - 200 innocent civilians on their way to work, to school, or just to catch the morning train. It really isn't important who carried out this atrocity, whether it was Al-Qaida, the ETA, or some other unknown organization.
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| TAKE A BREAK |
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THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT WAS... |
Welcome to our coffee corner.
We will try to provide you here with short anecdotes about life in Israel today - things you won't usually be seeing on your TV screens.
visit the coffee corner >
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Following Naomi Shemer last year, Israel loses two more of its best-loved composers - Uzi Hitman and Ehud Manor
Yad Vashem presents a new face to the world
Israelis on vacation in Sinai and Turkey become targets of terrorism
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