"May Adonai bless you and protect you! May Adonai deal kindly and graciously with you! May Adonai lift up his countenance upon you and grant you peace!" (Torah, Numbers 6:24-26) And Jesus said, "Allow the little children to come unto me. Forbid them not, for of such is the Kingdom of God. Truly, I say unto you, unless you receive the Kingdom of God as a little child does, you shall not enter therein." (New Testament, Mark 10:14-16)

Sojourning at an Oasis Paradise

My purpose for living this life, and for writing this blog, is to understand the faith that links us to God. I wish to explore and discuss the reality at the heart of all of the world's religions. This is an immense task, but I know that God also has faith in us, trusting that we do desire the truth, as well as freedom, love and wisdom. Thus, as always, He meets us halfway. Even as God has given us individual souls, so we must each of us trace out an individual pathway to God. Whether we reside in the cities of orthodox religion, or wend our solitary ways through the barren wastelands, God watches over us and offers us guidance and sustenance for the journey.


Most of what you will see here is the result of extensive personal study, combined with some careful speculation. Occasionally, I may simply offer some Scripture or an inspirational text. I am a wide reader, and the connection of some topics and ideas to matters of faith and religion may not seem immediately obvious, but perhaps I may spell it out in the end... or maybe, you will decide that it was just a tangent. Anyway, I hope that you will find my meanderings to be spiritually enlightening, intellectually stimulating, or at least somewhat entertaining.

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Stand for Israel's Right to Exist!

Israel deserves to exist because it values its citizens. The Jews love each other and share a democratic government, even though they are divided about how to be a proper Jew. They even accept Christians, who haven't always been the best neighbors, and nearly a fifth of Israelis are Arab Muslims who, by the way, don't want to destroy Israel. 

Muslims under Israeli "oppression" are treated better than the Palestinians treat each other when given their own Islamic government. We will never believe that Palestinians want a two-state solution. They just want an excuse for hating Jews. They have been offered their own state many times, on the one condition: Acknowledge Israel's right to exist. Nothing else. They refuse every time. Instead they chant, "From the River to the Sea," a call for renewed genocide.

Even if you don't believe that God gave the Jews this land 3700 years ago, you have to see that a people who have been persecuted, murdered and chased from their homes, simply because they have a different faith, for 2000 years needs to have a homeland. They suffered terribly at the hands of the Nazis, so much so that the terms "genocide" and "ethnic cleansing" had to be invented, not to even mention "Holocaust." What kind of person so despises the Merciful God that they would refuse to allow them to live in the one place on Earth that they have always called "Home"? You claim that your God is merciful and compassionate, but you have none of it. The only attribute of Allah that you emulate is his lying.

And don't even go on about the "Nakba." Your grandparents ran to leave the country so that their Arab friends could invade and destroy Israel, and they wouldn't be in the way. They expected to return to clean up the slaughter and claim the spoils of war. I feel ZERO sympathy for the Palestinian refugees. Every Arab Muslim who stayed was given citizenship in Israel, and they are happy to be Israeli. The so-called refugees, after 75 years of self-imposed exile, need to disperse and take new citizenship with any Arab country that will accept them, if any will. Go live under your Sharia law, if you want. Or maybe, petition Israel to accept you, and swear to accept and defend Israel's existence. Your plight is your own fault.

There is no excuse for terrorism, no excuse for teaching your children to hate Jews, no excuse for hiding your fighters under hospitals, no excuse for sending your children out with bombs in toys to explode and die. Your young men throw rocks at soldiers and run away like cowards. And you subsidize terrorist "martyrs" by paying the families of those who commit suicide attacks. If any people on Earth deserve no sympathy, and no homeland of their own, it has to be the Palestinians. If the rest of the Muslim world objects, let them take them in and give them citizenship. They are rich, and they share their Islamic values. It would be no burden at all. Who wants to shelter some terrorists? But I guess, if anyone needs mercy more than they deserve it, it must be those who gave us Hamas.

So now, the situation has developed into war. We must pray that our God will make his ruling from Heaven with justice, mercy and love. For those who have truly suffered, justice; for those who deserve reproach, mercy; and for all involved, love. 

Oh, my Jesus, forgive us our sins. Save us from the fires of Hell. Lead all souls to Heaven, especially those who most need thy mercy. Amen. 

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