We must learn from history and it blew my mind to learn that sixty percent of Jordan's citizens are Palestinian and how over 100,000 Palestinians reside in Egypt.

Like most people of the world I also had no idea the hot potato Sinai Peninsula now a part of Egypt given back by Israel after the Six Day War of June 1967 is actually now inhabited by well over one million people living in myriad cities and towns!        

Having the Palestinian people transition to these adjacent countries of Jordan and Egypt will provide them with an infinitely better life and is better than digging in heels for the sake of living in the past for the killing and terrorism traditions the Palestinians were led to embrace by their ruinious leaders and supporters who are primarily using the situation as passive aggressive or violent aggressive excuses for hatred of Jewish people and Western culture including self-hating and patronizing Jewish people who would not do well practicing their life style in most Muslim countries or Muslim areas of most countries.

Probably best to have the USA and British militaries reside in the area of Israel now known as Gaza with a new name to be selected in consulation with the Israelis for obvious reasons and former Palestinian residents will be free to visit and stay in new hotels built there so they may revisit their former lives but in an infinitely better setting of beauty, peace and comfort with everyone doing their best to assuage the nightmares of the past now safe and secure.

Creative innovation in politics, similar to music, is an easy target for those who lack the intellectual, emotional, spiritual and technical ability to comprehend the present time as opposed to academic models of the past which were never real to begin with especially at nepotismatic institutions of substanceless and laughably banal misdirection so off even a thousand and one compasses would fail to help.

Polar bear families must not be exterminated for the sake of more oil and gas that kills our planet or anything else related to money and politics. This is in response to a friend with the Council On Foreign Relations who was brutally and insensitively mistaken to say they are not worth saving as a species.

A leading Palestinian oud (ud) player introduced to me by Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy loved my Angel of Ankara on the Rainbow Thunder album for mervina so much he asked to visit my music studio to experience how I did it and he did not hate me for being Jewish American - quite the contrary - or for having ideas that may have been different from his on some subjects. I will ask him what he thinks about all this if we run into each other again but I strongly suspect he will like the idea too just a feeling we vibed well together simpatico ciao.

- Michael Eric Robinson Longhi, February 2025 - January 2026, Hawaii  

Michael Eric Robinson Longhi is a Los Angeles-based composer, computer music programmer, pianist and musicologist. His over 200 albums include over 150 albums for meruvina and over 50 albums of piano improvisations both solo and with Eliot Zigmund formerly of the Bill Evans Trio and tabla player Anindo Chatterjee of India both among the greatest percussionists in recorded history. Michael has performed and lectured for churches, universities, colleges, NPR, Pacifica, college and community radio stations, high schools, elementary schools and community centers in America and all over the world online.