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The dramatic, earth-shattering events in Palestine starting on October 7 have taken many people by surprise. However, attentive observers are not. 

 Few expected that Palestinian fighters would be parachuting into southern Israel on October 7; that instead of capturing a single Israeli soldier - as done in 2006 - hundreds of Israelis, including many soldiers and civilians, would find themselves captive in besieged Gaza. 

 The reason behind the ‘surprise’, however, is the same reason that Israel is still reeling under collective shock, which is the tendency to pay close attention to political discourses and intelligence analyses of Israel and its supporters - while largely neglecting the Palestinian discourse.

 For better comprehension, let us go back to the start. 

 The Spark 

Todays presentation features the great AMORY LOVINS in a monumental recorded conversation on the rise of a renewable/efficiency-based economy.

This discussion was presented at a Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection zoom (#157, Part 2) on November 13, 2023.

In 1975, Amory gave a pioneer talk at the TOWARD TOMORROW FAIR in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Amory's landmark vision introduced the world to the coming realities of a totally green-powered Earth.

In his later Road Not Taken, published by Foreign Affairs Magazine, Amorys breakthrough insights have helped lay the foundation for one of humankinds most critical technological revolutions"and one of it biggest industries, with revenues reaching into the multi-trillions, and job-creating in the multi-millions.

Amory later personally delivered the basic memorandum to Jimmy Carter, helping to birth (among other things) the establishment of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

“Red Rover, Red Rover, let Bobby come over!”

I can feel the wind on my face, the gravel at my feet – oh so minutely, but with enough realness to pull me back seven decades, into one of the earliest moments of my becoming.

For some reason I find myself, at age 77, pondering such moments – not simply random memories from childhood but, as I say, moments of my becoming: openings of awareness that were entirely unexpected and utterly personal and thus, oh so quietly secret. This is me?

I think my sudden fascination with such moments shimmers beyond me. I am continually confronted with the abstract statistics of war dead – in particular, the murder of children, each of whom was in the process of becoming himself or herself until they became the tactical victims of a geopolitical game about which they knew nothing.

“Red Rover, Red Rover . . .”

80 days on the genocide in numbers (a world record in conflict) and just
five victim stories so that you see we are not mere numbers  and five
inspirung stories. In 80 days!
1,745 massacres
>28,000 martyrs and missing persons. (1.2% of Gazan population)
20,674 martyrs who arrived in hospitals (issued death certificates).
8,500 child martyrs and 6,300 female martyrs.
54,536 injured (2.4% of Gaza population) most can't be treated
311 martyrs of medical staff; 40 Civil Defense first responders. 103
martyred journalists,
Over 5000 kidnapped by Israel: including101 health-care workers, 9
journalists, over 40 professors.
Essentially all 2.3 million people in the Gaza Strip displaced from their
homes and being starved
475,000 infected with infectious diseases as a result of displacement and
lack of clean water/sanitation
58,000 Tonnes of high explosives used (equivalent to two nuclear bombs)
65,000 housing units were completely destroyed by the occupation.
26 government headquarters destroyed by the occupation.
92 schools and universities were completely destroyed by the occupation.

To: President Joe Biden