Are we not closer to world war than to world peace ?
Cornelius Hamelberg
“And when thy Lord said unto the angels: Lo! I am about to place a viceroy on the earth, they said: Wilt thou place therein one who will do harm therein and will shed blood, while we, we hymn Thy praise and sanctify Thee ? He said: "Surely, I know that which ye know not.”
( Quran : Surah al-Baqarah 30 )
Then there are all those Genocidal Passages in the Tanakh
Surely, peace - “a just peace” is the alternative to war ?
Of course, if there was a Palestinian State then it’s unlikely that October 7th would have happened.
Indeed, we live in a world of cause and effect, so where did the mayhem start?
Did it start with The conquest of Canaan according to the Book of Joshua
When will it end?
Who is going to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this year?
This is not poetry :
Rabbi Isaac Avraham Kook : Every war brings Moshiach closer
Thomas L. Friedman : The First Volleys of a Ballistic Missile War in the Mideast
Former MI6 Head: Israel is going to “punish Iran heavily”
There are those who say, “leave religion out of it” but isn’t religion the very basis of the Middle East conflict? To quote from Porter’s Pensées :
”But Netanyahu’s elevation to the status of an Old Testament prophet will of course require him to win his present war: the whole project, that is, not just the fight against the Hezbollah. And, of course, it also rests on worldwide Jewry’s acceptance of his militant, racist, nationalist, colonialist and frankly amoral reading of the Torah, which many other Jews dispute. (See https://bernardjporter.com/2024/08/24/gods-covenant/.)
Cornelius Hamelberg
Iran’s Operation “True Promise 2” Against Israel. Remember Dick Cheney: “Let Israel Do the Dirty Work for Us”