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 

If you’ve recently dined out, you’ve noticed that single-use plastic straws are disappearing.

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 . . .”