Middle East Post

Recently, and since I started writing my political posts about the Israeli Palestinian conflict and other subjects, I felt that I was read by people in different ways; some considered me extreme, others considered me a moderate. To be honest, I was sometimes affected by the readers’ comments and opinions about my analysis and discussions of the political situation in the Middle East.

The first time I decided to write about the Israeli Palestinian conflict, I convinced myself to try to look at the situation from a place located in the middle. This can be seen in my writings; I wrote about the mistakes that were made by the Palestinians in their internal situation, and I also wrote moderately and honestly with evidences about the Israeli policy and actions towards the Palestinians. I was not surprised when I was criticized by some of my Palestinian people, and a lot of the Israeli people. Sometimes I thought of using a different language in order to send the message I want depending on the kind of readers I am addressing. Even when I tried to use this way, I was called by some Israeli readers a hypocrite who tries to show a good face that hides a different reality behind it.

A good lesson which I learned not a long time ago was about the real person I want to be and the real work I want achieve, whether it was through my writings or anything else I do in my life. In one of Tony Robbins seminars, called Date With Destiny, which I attended almost a year ago, I learned about the importance of making a purpose for my life. This purpose should be the basis for any kind of achievement one wants to make. Like any other human, I was affected in the past by certain thoughts about the ongoing Israeli Palestinian conflict, which affected my life since I was sixteen years old. The change I decided to make did not include changing my own ideas which I concerned a part of my personality and patriotic case.

The change which I think I succeeded in achieving was to open my mind and to listen to ideas which are different from mine in both the Palestinian society, and the Israeli. Opening your mind to learn more about what is going around you, gives you a chance to descend the stairs into becoming a real leader who can affect and convince people in following the real purpose which you hold inside you. Today, I do not feel that I became a different person from the one who was before, but the change which I feel today is the ability which I own to convince people to think of what I suggest and analyze.

Many people are affected by what the others think of them and this comes from the search for significance that many hold inside them. This kind of search usually ends in emptying one’s personality from its real values in order to satisfy the demands of the others. Finally it turns from being a search for significance into becoming a procedure of turning one’s real personality into a fake.

So what is the way of being loyal to yourself, before being loyal to your cued ideas? It is simply by trusting yourself and what you think should be said or made. At the same time, open your mind to listen to others; if you feel that some may disagree with you, do not argue with them in a way that will bring neither you nor them any kind of benefit. Instead, try to search for a different way to send your ideas. The most important is to be honest, to have passion in your words, to trust yourself instead of living on what people may say or what you once were ordered to believe in, and appreciate every success you achieve even if it may look nothing in your eyes.

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