The dream of Millions...

They say the people of the Middle East especially Arabs are emotional...

They trust quickly, they think whoever laughs to them is a friend...

This is how they do business, this is how they think in politics...

I dont know if that is true...

But what I am convinced about it that we do not know anything about being rational...

And our reactions to major events are completely irrational...but not emotional...

Hassan Hijazi, a Palestinian living in Syria was able to cross the border from Syria to Israel...

He was able to go sightseeing to Jaffa or Yaffa (call it whatever you want)...

All the way from the Golan Heights to Jaffa/Yaffa...

Go check your maps to see how far that is...

and guess what?

No reaction whatsoever from the Arabs...

Do you think someone raised the question of how all that happened?

Do you think someone asked for clarifications?

So for years, we have been living in  a great fear that if we cross the borders we will be doomed...

And once it happened...the dream of millions....

If not millions... at least my dream...

The response or reaction was not...rational...

when I wrote my article about Armenians in Jerusalem and I had a whole section about my initiative to bring in People from Beirut to Jerusalem just to fulfill their religious duties...people went crazy...

And the article is not out yet...

People get crazy about something written on paper...but they react so indifferent to something that has actually happened...

So, now I say it out loud...

If the Palestinian State is recognized by the UN in September...

I will travel to Bethlehem to celebrate Christmas...