Enough Already: The Solution to Mideast Peace
August 1, 2006

     In the annals of American presidential quotations, “…(they) need to stop doing this shit and it's over ” will rank high.  Israel has become the third rail of world politics.  Of the issues which are catalysts to polarization, who could have imagined abortion could ever be supplanted.  Complexity seems to fuel the hurricane of hatred that occludes a dawning of peace.  As I believe genius is keeping it simple, I propose this solution, which I have yet to hear brokered by others.  Move the United Nations to Jerusalem. 
     The first sentence which appears in the Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations states: “We the peoples of the United Nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind.”  Why not globalize the city which so many cultures find sacred enough to die for?  Why not honor the spirituality of the region by insuring its universality? 
     “There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why… I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”-Robert Kennedy/George Bernard Shaw