Ali's Journal

When something damaging occurs people, due to their natural tendency, will go through what happened. They analyze it and try to understand ways they could avoid the damage so that in the future they can protect themselves. The bigger the damage is, the deeper the dissection will be. For example, a global recession ignites tonnes of scientific research to understand what went wrong. The same is true about human catastrophes. Concerning the Israel/Palestine conflict, the Gaza war will most probably initiate a domino. The Gaza war wasn’t the first time international laws were ignored. People around the world will dig deeper, conflict after conflict, illegal activity after illegal activities that can be traced back to past decades. The worst mistake for Isrtael’s hardliners was to place the conflict in such a spotlight. For them, it would be much wiser to quietly expand illegal settlements over decades.

The international community going through the domino of breaking international laws is beneficial for the two-state solution because the global community will develop mechanisms to avoid such deficiencies in the future to ensure the peace plan will be sustainable. However, the domino process is damaging for the US. Its stance on the recent UN Security Council resolution makes things much worse. The US should try to minimize the damage to its reputation and this is the best opportunity to do that. Providing weapons to Netanyahu unconditionally has already ignited fierce criticism over the US involvement in the conflict. The opportunity for the US has not gone yet.

The government of a country enforces laws by punishing those who break the laws. However, the punishment mechanism is not enough. So governments introduce different schemes and programs to stop people from breaking the laws.

International laws can also be enforced by punishments such as sanctions. However recent developments particularly in Russia and Israel have made it clear that punishment alone is insufficient. Russia could find other ways to bypass sanctions and Israel ignores international laws and recently devalued the UN Security Council’s resolution, paving the way for all sorts of international irregularities. The necessity for new mechanisms becomes apparent in a crisis. When old mechanisms fail new ones should be developed.

Israeli hardliners for decades tried to be outside of the spotlight so they could quietly break international laws by expanding illegal settlement for example. But the Gaza war brought all those illegal activities over the past decades into the spotlight.

The punishment mechanism is insufficient especially internationally. The participation mechanism then is a suitable complement for that. When a structure is in the development phase, the right to participate is attained for countries which abide by international laws. When sanctions cannot be effectively imposed politically on some countries, the private sector should step up and do its job.

If Netanyahu plans to defy the entire free world, he should have plans for alternative supporters. He has spent credibility and much more during the war but has gained nothing. Even his popularity is not repaired. If the war continues, he will gain nothing beyond what he has already gained, but there is a lot more, on his side, to destroy.

It has been said several times that the long-term solution to the conflict can be achieved only when extremisms on both sides are blocked.

در ایران شروع سال نو همراه با نگرانی ها و امیدواریهاست. نگرانیهای که واقعی هستند اما امیدواریهایی که بایستی ساخته بشوند. نوروز مبارک.

در طی سالهای گذشته توان اقتصادی بخش کارگری به شدت کاهش یافته و این مطلب گویای این هست که موانع اقتصادی با تغیر نام قابل حل شدن نیست.

به عنوان یک ایده اولیه، از انجایی که حقوق کارگران حداکثر برای 2 هفته کافی است، حقوق ها می توانند به طور هفتگی پرداخت شوند. به این شکل که نیمی از حقوق کارگران به خود آنها پرداخت شود و نیم دیگر توسط یک پلتفرم بخش خصوصی قرض گرفته شود و در یک فعالیت اقتصادی زودبازده مثل فروش کالای آنلاین استفاده شود و هر هفته مبلغ قرض گرفته شده با سود آن به کارگران پرداخت شود. البته این مسئله نیازمند تغیراتی در شیوه مرسوم پرداخت اجاره خانه و غیره می باشد.

I’ll contact a UN official today and explain the plan mentioned a few days ago about severe hunger in Sudan.

This will be implemented in a few big online retailers at first. People can be incentivized to purchase selected goods for people in famine worldwide. The idea is that instead of charities spending 100$ for example to buy food, that amount can be distributed as an incentive among customers buying selected goods for charity purposes. More precisely, customers buying those charity goods will be more likely to get discount offers for their next purchases. So charities run a marketing campaign with a portion of the funds they have instead of directly using that fund to buy goods. This way the fund will be multiplied.

This is a scheme to push people to spend a small amount of money for charity on every online purchase they make. After some time this might turn into a normal attitude among people to donate a small amount whenever they buy something.

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This scheme will then be linked to the other micro-investment plan discussed previously. So instead of random discounts, donors will get investment offers on that platform.

It’s important to note that Islamophobia drives extremism. The UK government’s new definition of extremism is concerning, particularly because recent non-violent peace-promoting gatherings have been labelled inappropriately. To stop extremism, the worst thing a government can do is to make the definition of that so ambiguous that, as a result, the line between extremism and self-expression is blurred.

Many people have criticised the UK and the US government’s failure to press Netanyahu’s government properly. Peace activism and extremism should never be treated in the same way.