Italy's horse of a different color

 Priceless eggs in variable gravity, Contd. I may have found the missing link in "Why left wing movements are pro Palestine" (i.e., indirectly helping Hamas). Many people I know and esteem are worried about the pro Palestine Rallies here in Europe and other Western countries, but the real puzzle is why people who would be killed or tortured in Gazah for their beliefs support Hamas over Israel.  Then it struck me, HARD. Jews in Europe are NOT the demographic that is getting the worst deal, at all. And that has to do with the ideological framework of the friends of unbridled immigration. So in Europe WHO can be worse off than Jews, in terms of personal risk of violence, discrimination and public opprobrium, given that not even acts that would have made an average citizen of Nazi Germany puke has been sufficient? For that I have to thank my friend Camilla Conti, and her daily press review on youtube (in Italian, highly recommended). This morning, she pointed out that not...

  Turin, October 15 th , 2023 Juggling priceless eggs in variable gravity We have no political leaders, only intermediaries. Hence these dismiss any position in which their “employer” ends up with an advantage as unpalatable. And if you play to draw or lose but not win, end results are less than optimal for western countries and cultures.The title is a quote from “ The mote in God's eye ”, a book that I highly recommend reading. The conflict between Israel and Hamas has brought anguish and turmoil everywhere. I have been following it up close because on top of listing geopolitics and military conflict as things I am most interested in, I have friends in Israel, and I am a friend of Israel, before someone asks or implies. But that's not the main focus of a thought that dawned on me this morning. My assessment of what has happened or might happened in the theater of operation is mine to share, and I share that....sparingly. But what caught my attention, also because it dire...