The northlondonhippy

Archive for January 30th, 2006

Hey ho hip­py­fans! Howsit hanging?

Mine hangs to the right, but mostly it points straight up, espe­cially when you’re near!

I’m hav­ing the sort of lazy day that makes being a hippy worth­while! I’m just put­ter­ing around the house at a leisurely, slightly stoned pace.

It’s a rough life, but some­one has to live it. Bet­ter me than you!

I’ve been doing some soft­ware updat­ing and installing on my iMac and iBook, while enjoy­ing my Air­Tunes set-up. I’ve also been doing some writ­ing on another project of mine, but I kind of hit a dead end, so I thought I would shift gears towards all things hippy.

Oh and by “dead end” when refer­ring to my other project, of course I just mean a false start. But fear not, progress will be made!

So actu­ally, I haven’t been that lazy after all!

I’ve got iLife ’06 installed on both com­put­ers now AND I’ve finally stuck Final Draft 7 on my iBook. Yes, I’m work­ing on a script of sorts.

Mainly today, I’ve been think­ing about the dete­ri­o­ra­tion of the sit­u­a­tion in the mid-East.

Haven’t you been think­ing about it too? See, it’s going around!

Since the “shock” vic­tory of the Hamas party last week, every­one has been preach­ing all sorts of doom sce­nar­ios, but not me. I actu­ally expected Hamas to win.

How was I so damn psy­chic? I wasn’t. I just looked at the facts.

I’m no ter­ror­ism apol­o­gist; let me state that up front. I hate ter­ror­ism and the mean­ing­less loss of life and con­demn those who carry out such hor­ri­ble acts. Hamas is one of those groups.

But that’s not all Hamas is. Hamas has a lot to do with daily life in the Gaza and the West Bank. They pro­vide social ser­vices that the Pales­tin­ian Author­ity can’t. For peo­ple who live there, they are a force of social good.

The mil­i­tary wing of Hamas, while deplorable, is also pop­u­lar with the Pales­tin­ian peo­ple as they are seen as defend­ing their rights.

Hamas hasn’t renounced vio­lence yet, but they will.

How do I know this? Again, it’s sim­ple. Now that they are com­ing into power, they are going to have deal with the rest of the world like a grown-up coun­try if they wish to sur­vive. Talk­ing to Israel directly would be a good first step on the path to peace.

Israel has said that they won’t speak to Hamas until they give up their armed strug­gle. Fair enough, but we all know that a ter­ror­ist group won’t give up it’s arms until there’s some­thing worth it on the table. Just ask Sinn Fein and the IRA.

So we’re at a Mex­i­can stand-off, only with a decided lack of Mex­i­cans. Who’s gonna blink first?

That’s where I come in! I’m ready, will­ing and able to act as an inter­me­di­ary peace envoy to bridge this gap!

You read it here first, fuck­ers, I’m going to nego­ti­ate a last­ing peace in the mid-East! Yipppeee!

If any­one wants to take me up on it, email me at thehippy@northlondonhippy.com and don’t for­get, I’ll need a big fat advance for expenses!

The two sides are not actu­ally as far apart as you might think. Sure, nei­ther one will acknowl­edge the other’s right to exist, but that’s just a minor detail.

What they both must want is a peace­ful future for their chil­dren. Isn’t that what any­one sane wants?

So here’s what they need to do:

Israel, the mature, elder coun­try, needs to set an exam­ple and offer pre­lim­i­nary dis­cus­sions with the new Pales­tin­ian gov­ern­ment when it is estab­lished, with­out pre-conditions.

Hamas has to agree to that as well and as a mark of good­will; they should declare an open-ended cease­fire. Go on, it won’t hurt and you can always crank up the mor­tars again if the talks break­down. But they won’t, because both sides need this more now than ever.

You’ve always got a bet­ter chance of peace with the hard­lin­ers, because if they agree to end hos­til­i­ties, every­one will take notice.

Ok, so that’s pie in the sky, but here’s what will really hap­pen: secret talks. Nat­u­rally, they’ll have to com­mu­ni­cate about loads of dif­fer­ent issues, and it will be done secretly at first and prob­a­bly for some time to come.

I’ll say it again, as it war­rants rep­e­ti­tion. There’s a bet­ter chance now for peace in the mid-East than prob­a­bly ever before.

You won’t hear many experts espous­ing that view; but then I’m no expert, I’m just some mad hippy in north Lon­don with the coolest moth­er­fuck­ing web­site on the inter­net and a rea­son­able daily dope habit too.

Sue me if I get it wrong!

And speak­ing of my souped up, super-dooper new web­site; it seems you guys out there in hip­py­fan­land are dig­ging it too! I’m doing bet­ter busi­ness than before on the old blogspot site and you’re all read­ing more pages while you’re here! Maybe it’s time I sought some sponsors?

In inter­net terms, this means my site is “sticky”.

Yuck. I’ll wipe my hands bet­ter next time!

PS.
420 friendly is Amer­i­can per­sonal ad-speak for smok­ing dope, prefer­ably yours!