places like the US, who meddle in their affairs when they have never lived in, nor perhaps even visited the region.
The Arabs and Jews I engaged with acknowledged there had been injustices on both sides but they saw no other option but for these issues to be resolved in a peaceful, pragmatic way and at local level not as part of a tiresome series of phony, self-serving and grandiose gestures and moves by politicians. In fact, they appeared to view the land issues in a similar spirit as we might view our housing crisis – it is an issue which at heart is very banal and can only be solved by common sense cooperation, organisation, focus and commitment in a parochial setting, not by fist, bullet or political claptrap accompanied by endless and useless theoretical analysis by the press at home and abroad.
As a result, I came to the conclusion that skilful human coordination of co-entrepreneurial activity appears to be the name of the game when it comes to establishing a solution to such conflict. However, the human networking and coordination tools of co-entrepreneurship appear to be sadly lacking in any educational curriculum
and thus there is no blueprint for its rapid and efficient adoption of such a system anywhere in the world.
for one’s neighbour. There are quite simply too many unsavoury people willing to take advantage of those
‘They blamed the conflict solely on the negative entrepreneurship of weapons suppliers’
Let’s face it, no one can disagree that life is difficult enough as it is, so it stands to reason that an intelligent and thinking person abhors and wants an end to bloody conflict at home and abroad, but it would seem that the likes of Joe, Joshua and Jamal Bloggs’ voices ain’t being heard on any part of this earth for the very reason that the modus operandi of any decent, normal person has a tendency to be to ‘mind one’s own business.’
However, maybe it is time that we recognise that
governments are
impotent, disinterested or perhaps too self-interested in the face of these conflicts and ‘live and let live’ is thus no longer an adequate behavioural instrument through which the decent, normal person can express one’s love
who are uneducated, disenchanted and mentally ill for them to be safely abandoned to their own devices in the hope they will turn their lives around in a diehard
Tory-style
entrepreneurship fantasy, or receive adequate psychological and economic assistance from government agencies.
In fact, Sociology and Criminology clearly teaches that when individuals live in hopeless conditions, economic need and its associated psychological depression puts them at risk of becoming pawns of the likes of criminal gangs and drug rings – perhaps more so now technology has advanced communication to the extent that joining a criminal or terrorist organisation could be one click away.
In addition, job insecurity in many parts of the
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entrepreneurcountry An activist protesting during the Tel Aviv annual human rights march
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