Peace and Ethics in the Mideast

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"WE are LEGiON!

We do-not FORGiVE!

We Do-Not FORGET!"

We are E-C-L-A-T-i{ON}'s!

Hello {WORLD}!

Today is “ECLAT{i}-ON” Calendate;

Universal Year Circa [UYC]3.98Billion/08.12.2008/07:17Atomic. AND,

Accordingly, “ANONYMOUS” (A renegade ECLAT{ARiAN) Publicly vows & assures the imminent Destruction of ALL $cientology-ian’s, on Hol{i} Cosmic Nebula-Built Space-Ship Earth(s) & elsewhere! As YE can Seeth, the Chap is serious!

HE [Anonymous] is considered to ‘Lucifer’ who broke away from the Éclat’s Holy Cosmic “Fiat-Lux”, but not Biblical ‘Let there Be Fricht or light“ man made Story‘s!!

Not like Bible(s) sayth!,
Not like Quran(s)..!
Not Tenach(s)..!,
No Gita(s)…!
No Kangyur(s)..
No Tripitaka(s).. and surely

Not Dianetic(s), even though it is made-in-America , where ALL the Others mentioned Above are iMPORTED (not Made in Sweet sweet U.S. of A.’s) Religions, too, competing for a Name for a god or god(s), instead of thee G-D, aka HOL{i}NO-MEN! ..etc..

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I have been to Israel Palestine five times since June 2005; compelled to bear witness/report on the Christian EXODUS from the Holy Land.

It is distressing that we the people of the USA know so little about Gaza, the continuing building of settlements in Jerusalem, the rights of refugees, The Wall, the over 500 checkpoints that deny the indigenous people of that land the right to access their land, jobs, families and holy sites especially in light of this year:

The 60th anniversary of Israel, Nakba and the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights- upon which Israel's statehood was contingent upon upholding.

In 1963, Senator Fulbright's on target questions to Jewish-Agency-funded US foreign agents who did not register with the Justice Department or disclose their true financing, funding flows and covert activities shone the light on how AIPAC: the American Israel Public Affairs Committee operates "within a murky nexus regulated by four important but seldom enforced US laws." [1]

The lax enforcement of The Logan Act, The Foreign Agents Registration Act/FARA, the 1917 Espionage Act, Thompson Memorandum guidelines for prosecuting corporate crime coupled with the fear of being labeled anti-Semitic and a media who have failed at their commission to seek and report the truth have all colluded to exert an undue influence over Congress and thus; we the people of America to be "under the de facto influence of a powerful foreign interest." [2]

Mis-informed USA Christians have been mis-led by the Armageddon-based foreign-policy views of such false prophets as John Hagee, who has captivated a congregation of 18,000 in his Cornerstone Church and millions who tune into his TV show to applaud the drum beat of a full-scale military assault on Iran.

Hagee is a 'Christian' Zionist who believes that the modern state of Israel is a divinely-ordained phenomenon and its establishment was essential to the Second Coming of Christ.

Christian Zionists adhere to a misunderstanding of God as a Real Estate broker. Christian Zionists opposes land-for-peace negotiations and have no eyes to see or hearts that bleed for their Palestinian Christian sisters and brothers enduring under a 40+ year military occupation.

Many Christian Zionists fail at the Christian commission to love all, and they seek to convert the Jews to their narrow small god or see them left behind in a nuclear holocaust that they erroneously believe they will be raptured/lifted out of.

Tikkun is Hebrew for mend, repair and transform the world.

The Tikkun organization researched to discover that there are three distinct elements energizing the Christian Zionists:

1. A strong commitment to conservative and ultra-nationalist American politics (so strong, I believe, that if the U.S. were to decide to break with Israel, this part of the Christian Zionist leadership would go along with that and drop its defense of Israeli policies).

2. Dispensationalist religious commitments that lead many of the Christian Zionists to yearn for a cataclysmic “end of history” eschatological war in the Middle East that will precipitate the second coming of Jesus and the Rapture in which all true Christians will go to heaven and all Jews who have not yet converted to Christianity will burn in hell for eternity.

3. A widespread understanding among many Christians that atonement and repentance is needed for 1700 years of murder, rape, and oppression of Jews that was frequently generated by the Church (though, of course, the Evangelicals do not recognize that church as their church). In this category are many Christian Zionists who genuinely feel terrible about what has happened to the Jews and genuinely want to help the Jewish people. Their philo-Semitism is real and sincere.[3]

"From Moses to Jeremiah and Isaiah, the Prophets taught...that the Jewish claim on the land of Israel was totally contingent on the moral and spiritual life of the Jews who lived there, and that the land would, as the Torah tells us, 'vomit you out' if people did not live according to the highest moral vision of Torah. Over and over again, the Torah repeated its most frequently stated mitzvah [command]:

"When you enter your land, do not oppress the stranger; the other, the one who is an outsider of your society, the powerless one and then not only 'you shall love your neighbor as yourself' but also 'you shall love the other.'" [4]

Eileen Fleming, Reporter and Editor WAWA:
http://www.wearewideawake.org/
Author "Keep Hope Alive" and "Memoirs of a Nice Irish American 'Girl's' Life in Occupied Territory"
Producer "30 Minutes With Vanunu" and "13 Minutes with Vanunu"

1. Grant F. Smith, "Foreign Agents: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee from the 1963 Fulbright Hearings to the 2005 Espionage Scandal" Page 15.
2. IBID
3. Rabbi Lerner, Tikkun Magazine page 9, Nov/Dec. 2007
4. Rabbi Lerner, TIKKUN Magazine, page 35, Sept./Oct. 2007

There is no peace in the world. Why expect it in the ME?

Arabs expect that their women should be treated like dogs. They hunt their neighbors out of greed and hate. They simply are not human. Their bondage is our war. Israel will destroy Hamas and Hezbollah as each day passes. The IDF returned the corpses of nearly 200 infiltrators today. Imagine the horror on the faces of the UN and the BBC to be witness to the destruction of Hizbollah in a war they all but glorified the intifada. And that number doesn't begin to count the untold hundreds buried alive in the tunnels dug by Hezbollah to kill every Jew in Israel. The hunt goes on.

"Justice, justice shall you pursue, that you may live, AND INHERIT THE LAND WHICH THE LORD YOUR G-D GIVES YOU." (Deut. 16:18-20)

Didn't Waskow ever learn the end of the pasuk (verse)? It isn't the Philistines' land. They have no share in it.

Justice leads to us here in our land- including Judea, Samaria, and Gaza.

Excluding us from OUR land- or part of it, as the Philistines violently insist upon doing, is INJUSTICE, and we will not allow it.

Dear Rabbi Waskow

I have been inspired by the two essays of yours I have read thus far, about Kosher meat and business ethics and this one in which you want justice and peace for Israelis and Palestinians. Thank you.

In this context I was suddenly reminded of the title of a book a Dutch man mentioned to me nearly twenty one years ago. I have not read it myself but I thought some readers of your essay might be interested in reading it.

Blood Brothers by Elias Chacour, David Hazard (With), James A. Baker (Foreword by)

From the Publisher

As a child, Elias Chacour lived in a small Palestinian village in Galilee. The townspeople were proud of their ancient Christian heritage and lived at peace with their Jewish neighbors. But early in 1947, their idyllic lifestyle was swept away as tens of thousands of Palestinians were killed and nearly one million forced into refugee camps.

An exile in his native land, Elias began a years-long struggle with his love for the Jewish people and the world's misunderstanding of his own people, the Palestinians. How was he to respond? He found his answer in the simple, haunting words of the Man of Galilee: "Blessed are the peacemakers."

In Blood Brothers, Chacour blends his riveting life story with historical research to reveal a little-known side of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the birth of modern Israel. He touches on controversial questions such as "What behind-the-scenes politics touched off the turmoil in the Middle East?", "What does Bible prophecy really have to say?", and "Can bitter enemies ever be reconciled?"

Dear Rabbi Waskow: I would like to comment on your letter to Senator Obama and thank you for its message. I also have written to him on his website, voicing my concern about his one sided approach to the Middle East stalemate and stating that many Jews here and in Israel do not share the current political policies of Israel. Your letter is most helpful as I use the fact in discussions with others, that you and other concerned Rabbis have great compassion for the Palestinians and are suggesting other ways of bringing peace to the region.

Although I am not a religious Jew, I feel that oppression of any nation or people by others is an inhumane approach to solving differences.

I belong to several Jewish peace organizations and am encouraged by their efforts to reach across the wall to communicate with their neighbors. I greatly respect the fine work that you do to help move the peaceful resolution in the Middle East forward.

Sincerely yours,

Pearl Volkov

Obama is going to the West Bank...

"A senior Palestinian official, Saeb Erekat, confirmed by telephone from Paris that there would be a meeting between Mr. Obama and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah on July 23."
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/14/obamas-mideast-itinerary/

And Obama has been talking about Afghanistan for more then a year now. It is not something he has just "found". Pay attention.

Afghanistan-
http://www.barackobama.com/2007/08/01/the_war_we_need_to_win.php

As far as the drugs go..
Just how do you suppose that he did drugs and graduated from Harvard Law Magna Cum Laude, was elected the President (editor) of the Harvard Law Review...no small achievment, it's the most important legal academic publication in the U.S. Before that he went to Columbia and got his degree in Political Science, majoring in Foreign Relations.

If he messed with drugs, it was not alot and he dropped them quickly. You would not even know about the drugs except for the book He wrote, but then you did not read the books.

Santa's here everybody! Santa's here!

Well, first he has to fight the "good war" he and the media have discovered in Afghanistan. And don't forget, now that he has turned to legal drugs he has the Drug War. Who has time for peace.

May we one day see an Islamic Imam (or Imams) make as compassionate a plea for the continued existence of Israel, equity for Moslems and Jews, and peace between a Jewish majority Israel and a Moslem Palestine.

Until that day comes, no matter what Obama says or does nothing will change in the Middle East.

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Richard, you said,

"I seriously suspect the INHERITORS are cadets from a space ship."

Ah, yes, JJ, a prolific and apparently deranged spammer on these blogs. His 'religion' is apparently prison inspired, and is racist and homophobic. Whatever you do, don't encourage him. He has been known to post nonsense that went on for over 10 screens. He apparently wants attention.

I seriously suspect the INHERITORS are cadets from a space ship.

God Bless Israel and God Bless the USA!!!!!

The problem with what you say, Rabbi, is that you are assuming people are willing to listen to reason on this issue. They aren't. There are knuckleheads of all three religious traditions- Jewish, Christian, and Muslim- who believe that they and they alone have the exclusive right to possess Jerusalem. No secular government of Israelis or Palestinians can give up the city and survive. All of this begs for an imposed peace settlement from someone of the will power of Jimmy Carter or James Baker. It remains to be seen if Obama will take this route, or continue to cave in to the Israeli lobby like Clinton and the junior Bush. But if he comes out openly and says what you advocate, he will go down in defeat, like Howard Dean and his advocacy of being "even handed". These people don't want fairness; they want the US to back up the most extreme elements of the Zionist movement, and since the time of the senior Bush they have gotten their way. If you're fond of quotes, how about this one from Schiller, "Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain." That's what Obama faces.

I am going to vote for Ralph Nader if Obama isn't clear on stopping the Israeli's from building in the West Bank.

I would feel the same way if he said he wasn't going to support Israel.

Two years ago Israel attacked Lebanon because Hezbollah had killed Israeli soldiers in a raid and "captured" others. At the time, little attention was paid to the fact that Hezbollah's attack was probably in response to the bloody and heavy handed response of the Israeli Defense Force to Hamas' capture of an Israeli soldier a few days earlier.

Israel imposed collective punishment on Lebanon--destroying billions of dollars in infrastructure and innocent civilians nationwide; despite the fact that Hezbollah fighters were mostly only located in the South, and Hezbollah supporters were located in a small area outside of the capital of Beirut. This was terrorism under any definition of the word.

Now we find out, as Israel and Hezbollah are on the verge of a “prisoner” exchange that Israel knew that the two kidnapped soldiers were dead all along. The premise of their attack against Lebanon was the freeing of these "hostages." They lied.

The unwillingness of the next president, whoever it is, to even handedly call a lie a lie will make peace impossible. Neither candidate appears to have the type of character required.

I am in complete agreement with Victoria. Never before on these forums have I read such an eloquent, true, profound and compassionate plea for peace. Thank you, Rabbi, and God bless.

Arminius

Hats off sir

Senator Obama's address before AIPAC is disturbing to those expecting a more forthright evenhanded talk toward resolution of the difficulties in Palestine. Perhaps he feels need of courting the Jewish Lobby for political reasons just as many of our politicians seem eager to do. But in no way does this address the issue or lead to any sort of satisfying solution to the conflict. Worse for Mr. Obama the speech he gave brings into question his other positions on the various issues in the coming election.
Rev. Jim

Your critique is true and noble Rabbi.
It is not our religions that divide us- it is how we choose to put them into practice.
You, Sir, do a great justice to your faith.