Global Entrepreneurship View of Tel-Aviv city from roof cafe (Israel)
because I happened to have a book in my hand by Ken Robinson called ‘The Element,’ which described balance as the real sixth sense. Apparently there is a tribe in Ghana which actively seeks to cultivate this sense in its members – sensible people. Incidentally, Robinson tells us that this discovery was originally made by a Kathryn Linn and described in her book ‘Culture and the Senses’ and is roughly translated into our parlance as ‘common sense’.
A couple of days later, I visited a bar in another part of Tel Aviv where I met Mike, a young British Jew who has migrated to Israel from the North of England. Mike told me he was keen to start his own business and had no time for any form of nationalism or sectarianism – in fact he is
embarrassed for his adopted country on an international level and fears for any business he might create in the region.
After three days in Tel Aviv I took the bus to Jerusalem where I spoke to a number of Arabs who were working in and around the City. A couple of the Arabs who had children at University in Europe felt embarrassed in exactly the same way as Mike in relation to how their country appears on the international scene.
‘Do you think people think we are all savages?’ said Abdel the cab driver as we sped through the evening sun towards the Jaffa Gate. I was quick to dismiss his concerns with the reassurance that most thinking people
around the world view these conflicts for what they are – fights physically undertaken by the uneducated, the dissipated and the mentally ill which are supported by anyone with a vested interest in their existence i.e. weapons suppliers, journalists and politicians.
What was even more interesting is that not one of the Arabs I spoke with expressed any hostility towards Jews. They blamed the conflict solely and wholly on the ‘negative entrepreneurship’
suppliers and the like.
of weapons ‘Someone’s
making money out of this,’ said Abdel the cab driver with narrowed eyes, as he ferried me around the outskirts of the old City. Others were angry at foreign intervention in the form of fanatical individuals and organisations based in
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