To boycott or not to boycott Israeli products and services

During these weeks of horrible events in Gaza, many voices raised to boycott Israeli products and services. As much as I’m shocked by the atrocities of this attack, I don’t think that to boycott product and services from Israel is a good idea.

Doing this, we would damage only specific companies and specific persons of that nation, probably many of them already not agreeing on how things are managed by their government. Boycotts and embargos are very unfocused weapons, rarely work. This case wouldn’t be an exception.

As often, instead of being against someone, it’s much more effective to support the ones who are doing something to make things better. In the case of Gaza war, we may for example donate money to ONGs helping the civilian population in Gaza, as the Red Cross, or to organizations asking for an immediate halt to this war, as Amnesty International.

First day of the year

First day of the year … and first post of the year

Until now, my relationship with this blog was absolutely poor. I posted few things, once in a while and without a clear objective. Moreover, I am always troubled with which language to use for writing the posts. I’m more keen to write in Italian, Portuguese or Spanish, instead of English, but English is universal …

This year, I start with 3 clear points:

1) Objective of this blog is to structure and store my thoughts on everything, except my personal life. I want to write more on my job at www.weblogssl.com, on my ideas on politics and economics, on my interests on music, society, languages

2) I want to maintain a decent frequency, let’s say two posts per month

3) I will write most of the times in English.It’s not a language I feel completely at ease with, but it offers 2 advantages: it’s the global language, it’s very synthetic, something that’s I value a lot

So let’s start!