I started this blog when war was waged; when i needed to share my reflections on the situation and since i wanted to make a change. I wanted to show that not all Israelites are monsters who wish only to destroy Lebanon. To show where we can change the world \u00e2\u20ac\u201c as a community.<\/p>\n
The blogging community is a different community than the rest of the world. They sometimes go Avant Garde; they do things that people won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do regularly. They (sometimes) share their most intimate moments with complete strangers. Not out of exhibitionism, but from the will to share \u00e2\u20ac\u201c since they know that sharing is a mean to gain understanding. it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a mean for a stable community. On the other hand, some bloggers use this power for propaganda. They try to speak, but not to listen. They try hard to repeat what they said in several ways, use violence and censor. These bloggers, though they are a part of the community, are not the mainstream.<\/p>\n
When Ahmadinejad<\/a> started his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153own\u00e2\u20ac\u009d blog (hebrew parody link<\/a>) it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a real blog \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it was another propaganda machine. On the other hand, when i started<\/a> my first blog i had no apparent cause for it \u00e2\u20ac\u201c i just wanted to write. In the beginning it blogged on the same site both in hebrew and in english, but no one read it. Knowing that no one reads it, i felt free to write what i want about what i want. Not to hold myself, not to avoid embarrassing moments. I spoke freely about my lovelife, about my opinions, about my actions. That was what brought me my readers, and i think that that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s keeping them there.<\/p>\n Now, that the war is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153over\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, i can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help but to think what will be of my English blog? Do i need it or do i just keep on writing from the inertia? What can i write about which interests both me and the international community? Should i just translate my hebrew articles? If so, then why? I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want just to force myself to write. I want to write in order to get other people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s thoughts on the matters.<\/p>\n More than a year ago, during the disengagement, i translated<\/a> Guns N\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Roses \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Civil War\u00e2\u20ac\u009d into hebrew, Civil war, the war of the civilians. (Maya<\/a> is probably laughing now). I sent the post also by mail to some acquaintances, mostly because most of them didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know i blog. One of them was Parliament member Yossi Sarid. I felt honored to receive a reply from him after reading it \u00e2\u20ac\u201c saying that he agrees with my worries.<\/p>\n When 2005 ended, i made a post which summarized<\/a> all i did in one blog post. I called it \u00e2\u20ac\u0153PostShana\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, i had some hopes there. One was to enact several statutes, the other was to annul some others. I will start doing it when i get back.<\/p>\n I guess that this blog will start being more personal, as i know less people read it than my hebrew one. I also guess that i will have to translate some of the hebrew posts when i\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll want them to be diggdotted or something.<\/p>\n On sunday morning Ma\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ariv will publish my opinion and legal commentary on the proposal <\/a>to the Israeli Statute of Copyright (digital works) 2006. It is a thousand words in total. I already wrote the political commentary<\/a> to the post (500 more); the question is \u00e2\u20ac\u201c whether it interests the readers here or not. I believe not.<\/p>\n I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll just start to write about life in Tel-Aviv, another boring personal blog, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I started this blog when war was waged; when i needed to share my reflections on the situation and since i wanted to make a change. I wanted to show that not all Israelites are monsters who wish only to destroy Lebanon. To show where we can change the world \u00e2\u20ac\u201c as a community. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}