Monday, May 02, 2011


A Drop Out
And Bin Laden is gone

I’m sitting at Washington’s airport when I got to know that Bon Laden is probably dead.
For more then ten years I’ve been studding terrorism, I’ve been following it’s movements and terrible outcomes.
For me, terrorism is not a suffering fight for a just cause. It’s a weak response for frustration, and a way to poorly address one’s anger.
Bin Laden was responsible, directly, or not, for thousands of fatalities, and even worst, for a constant terrorism basis education and propaganda.
Here in Washington people are exited about his probable and announced dead. But I immediately remember about the drops of wine we take out of our glasses for each one of the Egyptian tragedies God sent them in order to liberate Jewish people from Egypt.  We do that to recognize and remember that there is sadness in one’s suffering, even if , in the end, it has a positive outcome for you. The joy can not  come from the killing of the bad. It’s a dangerous way to see it, and a bad way to honor life. It is honoring life that we might fight the one’s who seek death.
In this moment let us keep the seder. Let us keep the order of objectives in our hearts and minds, and keep focused in not letting hate be the dominant force. Happiness for someone death comes from hate, and hate is exactly what creates terrorism. Let us take our drop out of out wine, recognize the importance and opportunity of Bin Laden’s death, but also remember the sadness of it.
And let us honor it keeping the fight for a just world, free from terrorist attacks, and specially, free from the hate that produces it. Let us fight terror education, let us find way to fight the conflict, in order to stop fight the enemy, because that will always bring sadness together with each victory.
Marcio Svartman
Washington, 02/02/2011

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