Forget the sh!t storm headlines of the media when it comes to the war and our future.

I want you to brainstorm with me instead. This means we are going to use our thinking caps (if you can remember where they are) and get outside of the box.

And get out of the Strait of Hormuz.

Until this war, let’s be honest, nobody knew about this strait, and some still think it is about discriminating against the gays. We went about our lives enjoying our gas, food, and helium, not knowing that an evil terrorist regime was controlling our daily bread (quite literally).

And now we all feel screwed, as said regime has taken the strait hostage; a tactic they have used more than once, with more than one proxy terrorist group… This is where we place our thinking caps on, turn the dial to Israel, the Startup Nation, and ask ourselves, if perhaps, there is another way to get our goods, with people and countries that are good?

Israel has always struggled with natural resources and friendships with our neighboring countries. This could have been a huge problem, but we turned it into a huge solution. We came up with ideas to sow the land to farm, to save water and energy, and even turned pasta into rice, when there was none.

Can we figure out how to go right instead of strait?

First we need to solve the issue of movement: from one side to the other.

It’s a rainbow with a pot of gold at the end of it. Or a pot of fertilizer. In this case they are both worth the same.

Surely, we can use some AI thing, Quantum calculation between the zeros and ones, or just better hardware, to create a rainbow, bridge, drone, mermaid…I am just spitballing, but you get the idea.

We don’t need a blockade.

We need to look at this from a different angle. Through the lens of the Israeli perspective. And there we will solve the problem and turn it into the next great innovation. Like Ben-Gurion’s petitim: just taking pasta and making it rice. Fork drop.

The next issue is the resources. And man, I feel like this one is even easier to crack. Israelis cultivated meat from cells in a lab. They’ve turned milk proteins into milk without cows. Back in the day they figured out that the toilet is more effective with two options of flush, and we all benefit from that, even now (maybe some of you, even right now).

My examples are crass, but they are to the point and Israeli-made. We can do better, because we are better. This war is about stabilizing the region, the responsibility of freedom, and also Bibi’s legacy (but I don’t want to talk about that or him, cause I will get angry, and my hat will fall off).

I don’t want a country of 90 million people to suffer at the hands of evil (that’s Iran, if it wasn’t clear). I don’t want an evil regime that chants ‘Death to America’ and ‘Death to Israel’ to rule over our survival as a species, and more importantly our Amazon shipping.

This is a time for ingenuity, creativity, and chutzpah to shine. Light in the dark. Open your eyes. Open your minds. Investors…open your wallets. And for the love of God, open a Hackathon to get this thing going. This is not the end. We are at the beginning. Let’s do the right thing. And go right. 

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