Podcast – My Solution & Plan for World Peace!
I know… finally right? My first official podcast is finally up. Sorry it took so damn long. My computer is still messed up so I used my brother’s computer instead to make it. I didn’t get the podcast to sound like how I wanted it to but I think posting it now is better than me postponing it again just so I could make it better. Anyways here it is. I sampled the music from my most favourite Sudanese song of all time, Wardi‘s Ya Baladi Ya 7abob. Here’s the first run of “The Drima Show”. It’s nothing serious, really. Just me talking crap and trying to get used to this podcasting thingy. But on the other hand, if people in power actually bothered implementing my plan, the world WILL become a much better place. Believe me it will. Enjoy! 
Special thanks to Esra’a for the technical help.
PS: Andrew Brehm and Hipster are featured towards the end.
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I wanna get my hands on some of that Xanax.
I liked your mix, Drima, and what a great well-thought out plan you have for the future concept of world peace.
Andrew and Hipster sound great. Hipster’s little rappish tune is in dire need of background music! She’s really good. I hope this inspires her to podcast too.
I know Hipster is MAD!!! I’m actually gonna make a beat for her, send it to her, have her record her vocals and then email me back the clip. LOL.
We’re gonna collaborate on hip hop/R&B track online! Hehehe.
BTW I’ve got some Xanax next to me right now. I don’t need to take it anymore. My hyperventilation problems aren’t as bad as they used to be
Thanks for the technical help girl. I really appreciate it!
So are you gona help me with my plan or what? What can get supper rich you know! Muahahahahaha
Esraa, thankx.Will do.
Drima, thankx *blushes*.I left you a comment on your blog.
hey der my fellow peace lovin frens.. war isnt d solution to wipe out terrorism.. fire cant be fought with fire.. its d mentality of those ppl dat should be changed b4 even trying to bring peace to d world.. thousands of innocent souls hv been taken n its still counting.. CANT D WORLD C IT!! n to those fighting d war, do u really fought that hard to bring peace or r u fighting juz to stay alive?? c’mon guys, between d two sides, there’s no grudge.. u’re not d enemy of each other.. deep down, u dun wanna be in d war.. killing n killing n killing every single day.. hiding n hiding juz so that u could stay alive.. PUT DOWN UR WEAPONS N COME OUT!! face each other n say its not wat u guys want.. u’re fighting 4 d wrong cause.. ending this, i hope d war gonna end soon n hope d lives of d innocent will b spared..
Hi anonymous, why do u talk leik dis?
You’re approaching us like this is an episode of Barney. We’re not tree huggers, you see, what you’re saying was suggested by Ghandi and every other peace activist that has existed on the face of this planet. Easy to say, impossible to apply in real life. You should be more realistic. Just a thought
What Ghandi proposed worked against the British.
But I fear the terrorists might just not be swayed by our moral superiority like the British were by Ghandi’s.
Also, I am generally wondering where this idea comes from that terrorism cannot be fought with violence. People repeat it as if stating it proves it true.
In reality violence is a very good method to fight something. That’s why people employ violence. Violence only doesn’t work if the enemy is stronger; which is not the case with the terrorists. Violence works very well, that is one of humanity’s problems.
Even the analogy is flawed. Fire is often fought with fire. Bush fires are contained using counter fires (you burn the bush towards the first fire to contain it) and I am sure many here can think of another fire against fire method that is very relevant for the middle east (oil fields burning, what do you do?).
Put down the weapons and come out? I’m afraid if I do that, the terrorists would just kill me. I figure that’s why they threw rockets at my university, where I sat, unarmed, ready to talk. And talk I did, but only to non-terrorists, Jewish and Arab. It doesn’t work with terrorists.
We are not fighting for the wrong cause. Unless my existence is a wrong cause. But I believe the terrorists fight for the wrong cause.
British didn’t leave because of that. They left because they couldn’t maintain their rule in South Asia after WW2. Their power was depleted in the world. It became a hassle, an expense and not to mention the now well armed and well trained natives who took up arms all around the region to fight the Brits under Bose’s leadership and after his death, his army, the Indian National Army was getting larger. It was growing in size. British backed out. It had nothing to do with morality, when did the Brits ever give a damn about morality?
You couldn’t have picked the worst possible example to defend your views. First of all, when you fight real fire, you burn what’s surrounding it to take out the fuel source for the fire.
How do you take out the fuel source for the terrorist? By killing more? WRONG, you prevent people from becoming terrorists. By killing more, you add fuel to the fire. It’s like starting an uncontrolled fire beside a bigger forest fire.
Don’t worry, Americans are little superior when it comes to killing school children, they whip out entire schools with their bombs and call it collateral damage and idiots say ohh well too bad. And the relatives of these kids become terrorist and…
And the terrorists and everyone around the world consider US, Israel, UK etc as terrorists so now do the math and what do you get?
“First of all, when you fight real fire, you burn what’s surrounding it to take out the fuel source for the fire.”
That’s what I was talking about. Cannot have been quite as bad, the example, can it now?
“Americans are little superior when it comes to killing school children, they whip out entire schools with their bombs and call it collateral damage and idiots say ohh well too bad. And the relatives of these kids become terrorist and”
Well, first I don’t believe that Americans bomb so many schools. And second, that exact thing happened in my country during World War II, and guess what neither I nor my fellow countrymen became terrorists, so something must be wrong with your equation.
If you want to see schools actually _targeted_, go to Israel and wait for a terrorist attack. The Americans at least try to avoid hitting schools (the PR disaster alone is worth it). You can hate the Americans and George Bush as much a you like, but the fact is that they are not the problem. Had Iraq not attacked its neighbours, supported terrorism, worked on WMDs etc, nobody would ever have considered attacking it.
War begets war, indeed. But that only means that one must not start one, like Saddam and the terrorists did. It doesn’t mean that by not fighting back you can make the war stop. That never worked.
“And the terrorists and everyone around the world consider US, Israel, UK etc as terrorists so now do the math and what do you get?”
What do I get? Depends on whether we talk to them or kill them. If we try to talk to them, they’ll kill us. If we kill them, they will not. I don’t care how many people consider these three countries “terrorists”. I know they are my only hope for survival. I did the math. Without them, I’ll die. And so would all Jews, and other minorities, and everyone who doesn’t fit into the world view of the terrorists.
“It had nothing to do with morality, when did the Brits ever give a damn about morality?”
Wow. You really hate the Americans and British. But be that as it may, I think, well, I KNOW, you are wrong about British opinion about Ghandi. Ghandi did not attempt what he did because he thought it would not work. He looked at the British, as you do, and concluded that it might work. He was right. You are wrong.
The Brits abolished slavery, first in their empire, then tried to around the world. How’s that for morality. Tell me one country that has ever done more for humanity!
“How do you take out the fuel source for the terrorist? By killing more? WRONG, you prevent people from becoming terrorists.”
Please look at a photograph of Berlin or Dresden after World War II. Look at it for a few minutes. Then tell me exactly how that didn’t work. I want to see what you see. I want to see how that didn’t work.
And how exactly do you prevent people from becoming terrorists? Did it work with the Nazis? Why would it work with the “Islamic” terrorists?
Don’t explain things to me pretending that you know all the answers. You don’t. You merely claim that your solution is right and that I am obviously wrong.
The only problem is that I have seen my way work. The world has seen it work. If you want to pretend that it doesn’t work, you will have to find a better argument than “do the math”.
I have done the math. Killing the Nazis did the trick. It was very unfortunate, especially for us, but it worked.
Get it? It worked.
You can argue whether there are better ways, you can argue that you know a better way, but you cannot in all honestly claim that it doesn’t work.
Blame the terrorists for the innocent victims of America’s way to deal with terrorism.
I blame the Nazis for Germany’s victims in World War II.
I cannot blame America. I cannot be that unfair and arrogant.
The fact remains that a corrupt political culture and a society where poverty plays a huge role does in turn result in things such as terrorism. You see terrorism forming in countries that have been ridden with war and conflicts for decades. You don’t just base it on a single incident and claim that you’re better simply because you didn’t use terrorist tactics in return.
Why do you think Palestinians resort to suicide bombing, because they were born evil? Do you honestly believe that it’s in their genes? Their human nature?
Secondly, since you’re not in Israel I really doubt that your existence is in danger here. Even to those in Israel, they’re really way better off and have way less to worry about than the many minorities who have no legitimate governments and no official support (financial and otherwise) from any powerful state the way Israel does. So I don’t think there’s a reason to justify Israeli violence and aggression merely because you think your existence is in question here when really, it’s not.
If you were a Kurd I’d understand your stance, but you’re Jewish. That’s like having Ben Stiller become an activist because he’s a Jew and he worries for his existence, does that make sense to you? Really, Jews have gone through a lot in the region, but today they are way better off in Israel than most Muslims who live in horrid conditions and are constantly under the threat of civil wars and religious fundamentalism (yeah, the kind that never makes the headlines in the media.)
And what do you suggest, that you kill Palestinians? Because you deserve to exist, and they don’t?
That would be inhumane and irresponsible. Get it? inhumane and irresponsible.
No one told you to blame them, but you can’t excuse their many faults either. Yes, America like any other state does many mistakes. Dismissing and justifying them is wrong especially when the lives of many innocent civilians are constantly at stake. Does that sound “fair” to you?
Your way will only result in further bloodshed and violence.
So if you want an endless cycle of bitching and killing, then yes, have it your way. But many of us are simply sick of it.
o.O so you support the killing of civilians? Or are what logic are you using here? In a wild fire, you target the trees that have nothing to do with the fire and burn them. You don’t target the fire itself. You let the fire burn out.
I believe world is flat… what Hitler believed Jews were inferior. What you believe and what is isn’t the same thing.
Your country? UK? UK was already at war with Germany. Brits didn’t need terrorists because they had an army fighting the Germans.
1. I don’t hate America, I hate the American government.
2. Iraq attacked it’s neighbours with the weapons and support from US and other Western countries.
3. Iraq’s WMD were all given to them by the US and other Western countries.
4. Can you give me a link to an article that says Iraq supported terrorism? (During Saddam’s rule) Collin Powell’s presentation doesn’t count because…
Saddam started war because the West told him to. It was under their tutelage that he waged a war with Iran.
It was the West that tried to whip out the Jews not the world that you think hates Jews and you are really bad at math/logic.
I don’t hate the Americans or the British, you have some twisted sense of logic, but I do hate their government. I hate what British did to the people where I come from. You telling me this is like me telling a Jew… you really hate the Nazis. If you can’t understand this… sigh.
He failed, South Asia was divided into many nations. This caused the death of even more. Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs slaughtered each other trying to get to the new countries that were created. Sikhs were slaughtered by the Muslims and had to leave their homes in what is now Pakistan. Gandhi FAILED. He failed to keep a group of people unified. India and Pakistan went to 3 wars. He failed. Both countries now are armed with nukes, capable of annihilating the region. He failed.
South Asia was free of slavery till the Brits came in. From where I stand, the British fixed a problem that they brought to the region. You want me to reward them for fixing their problem? Give me a break. Weren’t they also responsible for majority of the slave trade world over? Sigh… it’s like me shooting someone and asking people to call me a hero for taking the person to a hospital.
It was a needless slaughter. What ended WW2 in the West was when the USSR took Berlin and days following it. Germany already lost when it happened.
Problem with your argument is that Nazis were a government. They had a standing army. Your so called “terrorists†are civilians doing what they must to repel the invaders.
I didn’t claim that, but you did come to a foolish conclusion.
I told you to do the math for a simple logical sentence; it had nothing to do with what you are saying.
You are being a hypocrite now. You said Gandhi repeled the British without killing, yet you say this is the only workable solution. Hmmm…
You are right and the terrorists include the Americans. Your problem is you divide the Americans and the terrorists who kill civilians and put one as a hero and the other as a villain; unfortunately, the world isn’t as black and white as you think. I put both in the same category. They are both terrorists.
And I blame the British and now the Americans for all the ills of the world. Ya let us keep blaming and everything will solve by itself.
Of course I blame the Treaty of Versailles for the Nazis…
Esra’a and Jina-
OK…I make you both PM of Israel. Give me a plan that would protect your people, assure their security and provide for Palestinian rights…
I am curious about how you would go about a just solution. For starters, how would you get the terrorism to stop? But remember…I am interested in something responsible, just and fair to both sides
I will pull back to the original borders, if they keep bombing, I will annihilate them.
OR do what India did, make Israel a secular state.
OK…that was tried in 48 and the agreement was not accepted…even though it was settled by the UN…but you know that. Then the 67 war led to annexation of what are now considered the territories.
But OK…but remember I said a just and balanced decision. Also…what do you do with say Islamic Jihad…who won’t accept ANY peace agreement, even those that Hamas has accepted. They have been firing missiles as Olmert and Abbas spoke together and Israel agreed, just now, to release 100 million dollars. Remember that the Palestinians, much like the Lebanese, have agreed to no central control and tend to respond with violence when they don’t like decisions…and that has often been directed at their own people.
So groups like Hamas and esp. Islamic Jihad has clearly stated they will accept no agreement…heck let’s just start with IJ…sworn to fight it to the very end?
After that…I have some info. for you about the occupied territories and then we have to take on the impossible issue of right of return and why Palestinians are the only group in the history of the world, whose 2nd, 3rd and 4th generations are still considered refugees (by that definition, I am a Urkarinian refugee and my in-laws great grand children and Iraqi refugees)
I’d steal America’s billions and run off to vacation in Hawaii.
I’d be high all the time and deny it’s ever happening. I’d make sure the media dismisses Israel’s terrorism as “self-defense” and retaliation. I’d also resort to fear-mongering just to win my nation’s public support.
“Isn’t what we’re doing wrong? We’re bombing the shit out of them.”
“THEY WANT YOU GONE REMEMBER THEY HATE YOUR GUTS THERE’S A SUICIDE BOMBER WAITING AT YOUR DOORSTEP EVERYDAY”
“omg nuke them already”
Jina-
And I am not being sarcastic here. This issues has gone 60 years without resolution for reasons far more complex than bad will of Zionists.
Lack of awareness and activism has a lot to do with it, as does selective history and installing hatred in young kids from both sides.
Esra’a
“OK…I make you both PM of Israel. Give me a plan that would protect your people, assure their security and provide for Palestinian rights…
I’d steal America’s billions and run off to vacation in Hawaii.
For starters, how would you get the terrorism to stop?
I’d be high all the time and deny it’s ever happening. I’d make sure the media dismisses Israel’s terrorism as “self-defense†and retaliation. I’d also resort to fear-mongering just to win my nation’s public support.
“Isn’t what we’re doing wrong? We’re bombing the shit out of them.â€
“THEY WANT YOU GONE REMEMBER THEY HATE YOUR GUTS THERE’S A SUICIDE BOMBER WAITING AT YOUR DOORSTEP EVERYDAYâ€
“omg nuke them already†”
Take the American money and run? Are you actually Arafat’s wife writing from her Paris penthouse? I was wondering…
That was a wild response…are you smoking something today and not willing to share with me and Jina? At list hit? A sip?
Esra’a
“Lack of awareness and activism has a lot to do with it, as does selective history and installing hatred in young kids from both sides.”
Now there is something I CAN clearly respond to, and better than you or Jina.
My son just finished high school in Israel. Like most public schools in the West, the education was VERY left leaning. Going back to my wife’s high school days, highly discriminatory and racist comments about Palesitians is not allowed.
I studied Hebrew in Israel for two years in public classes, some with Palesitinians attending…nothing is the curriculum that was racist, anti-Palestinian etc. Was history taught from a more Israeli persepective, of course, was the Palestinian side presented…yes it was…I was there.
In Gaza…the kids are taught to HATE us. Even in rightist circles there is surprisingly little hatred taught. I have personally interviewed terror victims…I could not get hatred statements out of them…in fact all three said the same thing, “this should not happen to anybody”
These were three face-to-face interviews…even with a lady whose baby was shot point blank while she held it in her hands and her other son was shot in the head right after.
So on that point…there is much more work to be done on the other side…
No, I just got tired of discussing the same damned thing over and over again without anybody willing to lighten up.
Excusing the death of innocent civilians is disgusting, no matter what your excuse it.
Yeah, I’m living off of Arab donations to Palestine. Gotta make a living somehow now that the big man’s gone.
Don’t blame me. Blame the … uh… Jews!
And so you hate them in return. Wow, what a mature reaction. It makes you no better than them if you respond exactly the same way – through terrorism and hatred. It doesn’t matter “who started it,” the fact is that it’s happening and it worsens the situation on all sides.
Yeah, ‘better’ than us, because apparently we’re not as paranoid.
Lock your doors by the way. I bet there’s a Palestinian kid just waiting to end your existence! It’s their one mission in life, after all.
Esra’a
You know I am your biggest fan. If you were Queen of Palestian…I would make piece with you in 10 minutes and then me and my two son’s would take you to a great Arab resturant I know in Jerusalem where they start dinner with meza (my favorites…16 salads) and we would drink beer (they are Christian Arabs), eat and show so much of the world what they have been missing.
Esra’a for QUEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’d hate being Queen, people will expect all sorts of things from you. I hate every Arab Queen I know of, especially Queen Rania with her attention-seeking ways and fake smiles.
I wouldn’t mind having a Queen’s money though. That would make me happy. I’d buy an island in East Asia. Oh wait, they ran out, our royal family bought them all.
If you have any non-Israeli passport you should come to Bahrain and try our foods. Most of it is stolen but we like to claim that it’s our national food anyways.
48 and 67 were generation or 2 old. Give the new generation a try. Even groups like Hamas are hinting that they will drop that clause in their charter if Israel goes back to their original border.
Palestinians right to return is ludicrous, but under the Geneva Convention that Israel is a signatory of states that all refugees have the right of return to their original homes after a conflict.
Israel refused to let them in after the wars, so it’s falls on the Israelis to make some concession.
Maybe using the money America pumps into Israel to build homes for refugees in the territories might help. Forget about Israel, if the UN helps out, it can be solved, but who am I to suggest such things. America rather waste it’s money on wars, but can’t use that kind of money to solve the root cause of so many problems in the Middle East.
They won’t have people to recruit if people stop hating Israel. Above initiative can reduce it. It takes time for groups like IJ to disappear, it takes time. Look at America, you think it became so perfect after the civil war? It took so many years for the extremists elements to disappear. After centuries these extremists are still there. You can’t expect thing to go well over night in the Middle East either. Take baby steps instead of blaming each other like there is no tomorrow.
A great man once said “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.â€
If Israelis grow up and do that, we can have peace, or we can go with Bob Marley
Replace the certain countries with countries in Middle East and tada we got his solution.
I have never said that it was entirely Israeli’s fault.
Very true, can you tell me what kind of future a Palestinian living in a refugee camp can expect to look forward to?
Glad to hear that, maybe if the politicians and/or those in power thought this we can have some peace.
You should interview the Palestinians too, and let me know how those who lost their children think, considering there are lot more Palestinians in this position than Israelis.
Very true, but it is also Israel who is creating the atmosphere that is responsible for these kids on the other side who are being corrupted.
Esra’a
“If you have any non-Israeli passport”
You said much better than I could say it.
Jina-
“I have never said that it was entirely Israeli’s fault.”
Ah…you have won my respect…
And I have never said Palestinians don’t have very legitamate complaints. I also agree that, at some point, both sides are going to have to forgive. Two of American’s best trading and tourist parents are the Germans and the Japanese…in fact, I have four Japanese cars…4.
Just before I was born…we slaughtered each other on a scale that grossly pales anything that has gone on between Jews and Arabs… and we were pals very quickly after that war ended.
Believe me I would like to travel to Damascus or Beruit or Bahrain with “Israel” stamped on my passport…
It is a long, complex task and very hard to separate pragmatism from the fear and emotion of the distant and not distant past.
Oh..I also had a 64 Volkswagen…last time I, as a Jew, suffered under German influence.
Mmmmmm, how about we just implement my plan?
You plan is interestingly funny, but it’s not as exciting as… let say giving each person on Earth a gun with a single bullet and tell them to point at someone they hate and pull the trigger. POIFECT. Humanity is saved… universe is saved… god will be happy.
Jina-
:”You should interview the Palestinians too, and let me know how those who lost their children think, considering there are lot more Palestinians in this position than Israelis.”
Actually I have…even those that have never met an Israeli and never lived in “Palestine” vehemently hate us. Including my son’s high school buddy that asserted “the Jews have killed over 10 million Palestinians”, or the lady the other night in California, half-palestinian half-LEbanese (who never lived in either place) screaming “the Zionists want to call all the Arabs”. Man…that is a whole lot of killing we are intent on.
So…we will aruge this forever, but I do think the Arab side is far far more brainwashed to hate.
Actually, the brainwashing is very balanced. Racoon for one think all Arabs are trying to kill him. There you got a perfect example and didn’t even have to interview anyone.
Just admit the fact that both sides are equally fucked and move on to alleviate the problem. Have to drop the we are less paranoid or we are less destructive etc etc…
Does it matter whether I killed 10 people or you killed 1? We both killed. We are both guilty… move on to fix the bloody problem.
If you say the other side is more something something… then they will turn around and say the EXACT same thing to you. In programming language, you’ll call this an infinite loop. Find a way to break out of it or else…
Jina-
“Find a way to break out of it or else”
We agree yet again.
kus omaaak ibn al shrmoo6aaa
fucking hillarious! but the idea of using laughing gas is pretty impressive. now who woulda thought of that huh?
HAHAHAHAHA! AWESOME!! You have my support! When does the campaign start? Nice accent too.