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Originally from Pakistan, Anwer Sher is based in Dubai and writes for Gulf News, Khaleej Times and Emirates Today. His varied career experience includes banking, consulting, and real estate development. He has a Masters degree in International Relations. Close.

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Dubai, UAE

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Arabs Must Accept Israel

This may sound shocking coming from a Pakistani living in Dubai, but the reality is that Arabs must learn to accept Israel in their midst.

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Buraki:

If you look at Egypt. People there are poor and hungry. Their gracious leader is exporting gas to the Israelis, who are killing the Palestinian women and children all over the occupied territories. People there died for bread.

With all this humiliation, you tell us that Arabs must accept Israel!

Journalists in the Moslem and Arab worlds must not insult people's intelligence.

Pakman_Slayer:

Even the title is provokative.....MUST...who are u to obligate us to accept or not accept?

medieval evil:

Standing with the oppressor against the oppressed is a medieval thinking.

When a super power uses its might to help gangsters and criminals rape the lands of other people and slaughter them, this is a medieval super power whose people and supporters are vampires.

When leaders gather in conferences for the soul purpose of insuring that killers and rapists continue to kill and rape, this is a medieval mentality at its best!

When a journalist write words supporting killers and rapists in order to gain fame and invitations to seminars and conferences in European capitals and Washington , he or she is a medieval journalist.


Anonymous:

Unfortunately the current social order has been infected with a medieval bug.Currently no treatment exists.Suffering will continue till a crop of wise and daring leaders will emerge and set the things right.

Going back to holy land, or going back to holy book is not a solution, but a poison for the humanity.Those closest in this phenomenon will perish,those who are farthest, will survive.

M Karayol:

Telaviv

Who told you that Israelis accept Arabs?

Jim:

so many of the comments talk so much about who is damned foreever and satan appear to be psychotic.

Jim:

With all the troubles and conflicts on this planet we call earth it really makes me wond if God really planned this place or if he delegated it to someone less than perfect.

Ekalavya:

Rger, you posted a long piece on the myth called Jesus who self proclaimed that he was the son of a chap most jealous. The Bible is only for the intelectually challenged.

In fact, Israel need not worry of it's existence at all since both the offshoot desert cults with violent propensity are going to be obliterated sooner rather than later. The later one with a deranged rapist/looter/mass murderer founder will be the first to go followed by the more insidious white ant like former one. Both these founder conmen claimed direct non-stop communication with their own brand of advertised "Makers" (one of whom Jehovah even declared once to a poor woman "I am against you, and will lift up your skirts over your face; I will show the nations your nakedness and kingdoms your shame.") but who never bothered to tell these self appointed representatives that the Earth was almost spherical and it went round the Sun. The world would be a better place if both these cults self destruct as their own kind have correctly predicted (Na Musa Na Isa by that mass murderer cum rapists cum plunderer thug called Pagy and the other one's Malaichy's claim that the present Pope is the last but one). In fact Pagy Mohd said that his violent cult would end in 1400 years and by his warpy 354 days a year calculation meant Nov 1979, in fact an Iranian Islamic group aptly named Devi (Parmatma Shiva's wife is called Parvathi Devi) entered the tomb of 360 Shiv Ling idols aka Kaabha and shot dead over 3000 people. What started in 1979 will probably end in 2032. And it will be a red letter day for the world in general and a new Deepavali has to be started.

As Koenraad Elst said in The Psychology of Prophetism (http://www.bharatvani.org/books/pp/)

“Prophetism has caused innumerable hardships without giving anything valuable in return. Not one of the valuable things in the cultures dominated by it, can be traced to their prophetic-monotheistic component. Its source has more often than not been mental darkness. Today, there is no justification for keeping humanity in the mental prison of prophetism any longer.”

roger wallace:


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1 Many people, in the earth, they have desired, to understand, and to know, that which cometh upon the earth, as being forever seen.
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2 And, I (god) do say, that most surely, in those seen nations, who hate my great, eternal, true name. As found, as being Jesus christ, as being, forever true,
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3 They are seen, unto me forever. As being forever true, in satanism forever sure. And, they are seen, as being death unto me forever. And, they are, simply, unrepentifully and unjustly, in unrepentifulness,
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4 As being forever truly found, as being faithfully forever true, of themselves, as forever seen. In being against, all that I am, as I am god, as forever seen and true.
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5 And, those beguiled, true nations. They are seen unto me, as being forever true. As being non christian nations, forever. And those nations (not speaking of Israel),
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6 They shall see vexation of spirit and suffering and great end time famine, and great pestilence, and great war, forever.
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7 Yet, they shall see many other things, from their personal, true treasures. That are found in their own, desired, damminly true treasures,
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8 That are treasures in death forever. That are called, their desired true death, in Satanism, as being forever seen and forever sought, by the damned ones, forever.
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9 And, those beastly true nations, they are found unto me, in death, as being forever seen. And, they are seen, unto me forever. As forever seen, as satan, forever, and they are seen and felt, unto me,
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10 As their desired and most true death, as forever true. And, they are considered of me, forever. To be as dead as satan is dead, unto me, forever,
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11 And, they, the damned in satan himself, forever. They are seen and found, in utter true shame and utter true contempt, as being forever seen. And they are seen, of eternal living forever, true damnation,
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12 And they do worship, as faithfully forever true, within themselves, forever, eternal living forever, true death. As found, given unto themselves, from satan himself, as being forever true.
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13 And, this earth, it is found, fallen in, and, unto satan himself. As satan, has became, as a false idol god, unto the damned forever. And it is found, and seen,
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14 By the damned, as being forever true, of the damned ones, forever. As they, the damned in satanism, as being forever seen by me forever.
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15 That they do choose satan, as satan being their false idol god, as forever true of themselves. As they give of themselves,
forever, unto satan, forever.
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16 And this earth, as found, unto satan himself, as being forever seen in satan true death, as being forever sure, in death, as being forever true.
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17 Then, those non christian true nations of the earth, as they are seen, as being: “Fallen, unrepentiful, ungodly true nations of the earth“,
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18 And those nations, they are found by me, in death, as being forever seen. And they shall be perplexed with signs following, For those nations,
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19 They are beastly by human fallen nature, forever. And they do refuse, unjustly, as forever true, to ever know me (god), as forever seen, as I am their true god, forever.
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20 And, again, those beastly eternal, damminly true nations, in death forever. As found, unto satan, as being forever seen. If, they shall refuse, to know my son, who called christ, as their savior, forever,
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21 And, who (christ Jesus) is with my heavenly true salvation, that I have created, from my (god) own, eternal, true Love. As being forever seen, in me, as forever true.
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22 And that salvation, it is given of me, for all fallen true men, forever. And that salvation, that is called christ Jesus. It is given, that repentiful true men, may arise and cleanse themselves, by calling on the name of god,
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23 As that name, is found. As my eternal, living forever, true son. And, who is called, “Jesus Christ”. As being forever seen, of myself, as forever truly seen.
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24 If, those non christian-unrepentiful true nations, who hate me, forever. Shall not repent in christ Jesus, forever.
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25 Then, those beguiled in satan, true nations. They are called death. And those, beguiled, most true nations, they shall all be clean dissolved, by me forever, or unto they accept and repent, by receiving christ, forever,
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26 As christ Jesus, being their personal, living forever, true savior. And who is from me (god), as being forever faithfully forever true, with my heavenly true salvation,
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27 That is found, given of me (god), as eternally forever and ever true, of me, forever. And it is true, for all of given true eternity, forever.
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28 Many antichrist, true nations, they are found unto me forever. In their own, personal, true choices, found in life and death.
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29 And those choices, they are found, unto me, as being forever true, and it is true, by their own, eternal, living forever, true hands,
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30 And it is true, that they, either chose christ Jesus, for the heavenly true salvation, that is given of me (god), as being forever seen.
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31 Or they chose not to receive christ Jesus, forever. And, which is seen, in being forever certain, of themselves, unto me, forever.
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32 And those nations, if they shall reject christ Jesus, forever. Then they shall die unto me forever,
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33 Then, my, great, living eternal, given and being given, righteous, holy true judgments. They shall be found of me forever, as given by me forever,
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34 As given of me as being forever seen in judgment forever. And it is a fiery given judgment of me (god), that is recompense, that is called granted true death, forever,
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35 And that true death, it shall be found given of me, upon and unto those blasphemous eternal true nations, that are called satan forever,

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36 And who are seen. As being, blasphemous eternal true nations of death, forever,
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37 And, granted true death, it is found, given of me, as being forever seen. As, given by me forever, unto those satan nations. As they are found by me forever, in satan forever. And those nations, they are,
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38 Found unto me, forever. As being forever certain, in satan forever. And they are found, unto me. As being forever true, as being found, as being truly beastly.
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39 And, they are seen unto me forever. As being, a anti god, true image, unto me. As being faithfully forever seen, in themselves. As their desired true death, as found in satan, forever.
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40 And, those non christian nations, as found in their death, as being forever seen true death. As found, as being. A fallen beastly stone image, of given, unrepentiful to receive god, beastly forever, true seen sin,
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41 That seen sin, it is found unto me forever. In being unrepentifully forever true, in being against me. As a seen, true sinfulness, as being forever seen, and is seen, in them, that perish unto me in their satanism, forever.
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42 All beastly, eternal, true nations. They are found, unto me forever true. As being anti god and as being anti christ forever true nations of the earth forever,
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43 And those nations, they are found unto me, in satan. As being forever seen, in granted true death, as forever true.
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44 And, they are seen, unto me. As being, found in their desired and most true death. As true death in satan, is found, working within themselves,
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45 As being found, as truly being satanism, as being forever true of themselves forever, and, that work in satan that is found themselves, it is forever heard as being a blasphemous eternal image of death forever.
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46 And, they, the damned in satan forever, they are most surely heard, as being eternal true sin, as being forever true, in all that I am not as god forever.
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47 And, they shall die, unto me forever, as being forever true. In their desired, and most true death, as forever seen. That is working true death, that worketh against me forever.
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48 And, they are truly, forever seen, in death forever. And they are seen unto me forever. As being, eternally forever true. As satan true sin, as being eternally forever true sin, forever.
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49 And they are seen by me forever, as death, and they are in agreement with me forever, for that true death and they are in agreement with hell forever, for true death forever.
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50 And, in true death, they shall never awake, after that great judgments of eternal just judgments, has occurred, forever. And they shall never awake, again, to live, afterwards (after that great Judgment called life), and forever.
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51 In true death, the damned ones of this fallen, true earth, forever. They shall be casted by me, away from me, as being forever true,
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52 And they shall be casted into eternal hell fire, that burneth, as being forever seen, as god in judgment, forever. For I am, god in judgment, as being forever true,
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53 And I am true, unto all of the wicked ones of the earth forever, as I am forever seen and heard, in Jesus christ, as being forever seen.
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54 And, in hell, is their seen eternal true reward. That is called life,
that they have made unto themselves. As being forever seen. As a seen image, called death forever.
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55 And that image, as made by the damned ones, as being forever seen, by me forever true. It is called: “Wanted true death, for me (me is the word sinner), in satan forever,
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56 As I (I is the sinner person) am a found sinner, unto god, as being forever true of myself (myself is the word sinner), forever“.
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57 And, unto all sinners, who are found unto me, as being forever true, as found in satan (all true sinners), forever. They shall, be forever seen.
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58 And they shall be seen by me, as being faithfully forever seen, In that great eternal, and most mighty and true day. That is called god in judgment, unto satan, forever,
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59 And, those sinners in satan forever. They all, shall receive their seen true reward. That is called, hell fire, forever. And that reward, it is found,
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60 As given of me, unto them, in that great unending true day, that is most forever seen, as being seen, truly forever true. And that day, it is seen. As being most eternal,
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61 For I am most eternal, saith thy god, as being eternally forever and ever true. For I am eternal, and I live forever. And the forever, it is me (god), forever.
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62 In that day, that is glorious in me, forever. The damned, they shall pass back into the earth, in spiritual and physical, true death. As being forever seen, and, as being forever, eternally seen, in death, forever true.
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63 Therefore, that passing into eternal forever death. It shall be written by me (god), as being: “They the damned, they are written back into the earth forever, as they truly do desire, Unrepentiful true death, forever“.
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64 That death, it is desired by the damned ones, forever. And, it is desired by the damned forever. As being, true death, forever. And that true death,
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65 It is also seen, as being in satanism forever. And, it is seen, as being forever seen by me, forever. And it is found, in true death, unto me, forever .
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66 That death, it is from being found guilty in unrepentiful true trespasses and unrepentiful true sins, that are unrepentifully forever seen,
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67 As being against me (god), as being forever true. For those desired sins, are desired forever, by the damned, as being forever seen by me, forever.
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68 And, they are found unto me forever. As being against receiving my eternal son, who is called “Christ As Savior, Forever”.

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69 Eternal death, as found in the damned forever, it seen. As being, unholy and unrighteous, spiritual true works, that is found in satan’s true death, forever.
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70 And that death, in the damned forever. It is found, in satan, as being, forever seen, as true death, as forever true. And it is desired, as being faithfully forever seen, by the lost unto me forever.
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71 And that true death, in the damned, it is seen by me forever true. As being forever true, and, forever seen. And that death, it is seen, to be as satan is dead, forever.
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72 And satanism, seen true works, as found in their desired true death, as being forever seen by me forever. It is called true death, and those works of satan and of the beast, whom (beast is the word man), is called man, as forever seen.
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73 It is forever seen, and, is forever found, in satan, himself, as granted true death, from me, as being forever true death. And that true death, it is forever seen,
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74 As seen in the damned, as being forever true death, forever. And the damned, and, with satan himself, together, and with satan’s true kind, who (kind is all fallen angels) are called devils, they are all together, as seen and called: ’As being the beast”, forever.
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75 And they are found, unto me, as being forever certain. As being in satanism unto me, as being forever true of themselves, in the service of their faithful and true worship unto satan and to satan‘s kind, forever.
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76 And they are forever seen. And they are seen in death, forever. And, all ungodly, antichrist, true nations. As they are found by me, as forever sure, as being seen by me, in their, seen sin, forever.
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77 And they are found by me, forever. As being forever true, as being seen, in eternal true works, found in death forever. And, it is seen, as heavenly true death. As being forever certain and ever lasting, forever true.
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78 And, they the damned and all fallen true nations. They are found unto me forever, as being in satan forever. And they, are also found unto me forever,
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79 In unholy, and, in unrighteous physical true works, that are called, eternal true death, forever.
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80 Those unrepentiful true nations in satan forever. They are even found unto me, as found. In their manifesting, of: “Unrepentiful, true sinful true works“, That is called granted true death, forever.
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81 And granted true death forever. It is being found forever granted, to them, who are found in satanism, as being eternally forever true of themselves,
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82 As they are found unto me, in the service of satan. As being forever true of themselves forever.
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83 And, if they be found unto me forever, in satanism, as being eternally forever true of themselves, in satan‘s true death, as being forever seen. Then they shall die unto all that is me in christ Jesus,
forever.
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84 And, through the judgment of the nations, my eternal just judgments. They are given by me, through christ Jesus, forever true, unto all nations,
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85 who are all non christian nations of the earth forever. That are seen unto me forever. As being, in satanism, as being forever true and ever lasting forever, of themselves, forever.
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86 And I shall damn them all non christian nations forever, who are considered by me, as being, rejectful to me, true nations, forever. And, they shall die unto me, as being forever true of themselves, forever,
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87 And, in this judgment of the nations, as being forever seen, upon the unrepentiful forever seen and true, non christian nations, forever, who are judged,
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88 As they will never repent and receive christ Jesus my eternal true son, who is with life, that is called god, forever.
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89 Then any of those nations, who are found unto me, as being forever certain, as that nation or nations that will never repent and receive christ forever.
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90 Then that nation and or nations, they shall die unto me forever seen, as being forever true. As being forever eternally forever true. And, they are considered by me, as being forever certain,
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91 As themselves, in being dead unto me, as forever true, and, as being forever seen, in death, forever true. And, they shall be seen, unto me, as being forever certain, and, true forever, in their sin, as being forever seen.
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92 Therefore, end time judgment. It is given of me (god), and is found, of me (god), worthily, unto whom, end time judgments, are forever, righteously forever due, unto. And that judgment, it is forever truly seen.
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93 And all end time judgments, are called life and death, forever. Therefore, let all nations, chose me, or they shall die unto me forever,
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94 And that decision, it must be made quickly, saith thy eternal one, who is seen, and is called, the lord thy god, forever.
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95 In these true days, forever. All ungodly nations, they shall be judged by me forever. And I will hold them accountable, for the deeds that they do perform,
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96 As they do perform those deeds, against me, as being found by me, as being forever true of themselves. As they are found by me, in satanism forever.
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97 And, those, ungodly true deeds, as found, as being true toward me. As they themselves, are seen by me forever true. In that they do perform those deeds, unto me, as being forever true of themselves in satan forever.
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98 And those true deeds, they are seen. As being, in satan eternally forever true. And those ungodly blasphemous true deeds, they shall be recompense back,
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99 Unto themselves, as measured unto themselves, in true punishment, from me, as being forever true, of me forever certain.
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100 And, most certainly, measured true punishment, it is given to themselves, from me, as being forever seen true punishment. And that true punishment,
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101 It is seen, as being forever true, from me, as being forever and eternally seen, true punishment. That is called god forever,
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102 And that true punishment. That is called god forever. It is seen, and is called dead death, as being forever seen, and it is now, found on the earth, and in hell, forever.
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103 And that eternal, most true punishment, it is from me forever true. And it is seen, as being true in me forever. And it is, given most surely, unto themselves, as being forever seen, true judgment, forever,
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104 And that eternal ever lasting true punishment, it is called eternal dead death forever. And it is from me forever. And I, the lord of heaven and earth, forever,
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105 I the lord, I do hold all nations, accountable, for their seen sins. That they, do against all, that is me, as I am creation, as forever seen.
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106 And I, shall damn all non christian true nations of the earth forever, that will not receive Jesus christ, forever. And I will send a fire, from me, unto all of them, forever. And I will give death and dissolving and great punishment,
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107 Unto those devil nations, as they are found unto me, as being in satanism forever, as they are seen by me, forever. In their seen true sins, that is called: “I (I is the sinner) desire death, as being forever true“.
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108 And, through the judgment of the nations. If these ungodly, true, non christian nations of the earth, forever, shall not repent and be baptized, in the son, who is called, Jesus christ,
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109 Then they have most surely, bought upon themselves, and, upon all of their seen children. Death and great eternal, blasting, true destruction, from me, as being forever true of me forever,
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110 And I (god) will destroy them with their seen sins, forever. And even those nations, that trust in their false idol gods, I (god) shall shame those nations, by making those nations, see,
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111 That without christ, they shall die, forever. And that in trusting their idols, that they have bought great dissolving true judgment, from me (god), as being forever true, upon themselves, as being forever seen.
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112 And, those satan true nations in satanism forever. They shall become greatly angered at their false idols, which hath not life forever. And they shall revolt against their false, seen and hidden idols of falsehood.
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113 And those nations which shall not repent, by receiving Jesus christ, as christ Jesus, being their savior, as being forever seen. Then, they shall die unto me (god) forever,
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114 And their seed shall die unto me (god) forever, unless they repent in christ Jesus, forever.
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115 These false nations, they are not, true nations of life, that is called christ, unto me (god), forever. And without christ, in them. They shall die unto me forever.
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116 And I will judge them forever, if they destroy not their seen idols, forever. And if they accept not Jesus christ, as this Jesus being their seen savior, from me, forever,
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117 And without christ Jesus being their seen savior forever. Then they are seen unto me, as being faithfully forever seen, as being seen in satanism,
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118 As being forever true, and they are forever found, unto me forever true. In their desired true death, forever certain.
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119 And I, and I shall, trumpet, unto those ungodly, true nations, that are found unto satan himself, forever, and that are found by me, in their desired true death,
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120 As being forever true of themselves. As they are found unto me, in their desired, true, iniquity. That is called sin, forever.
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121 And those satan true nations, they must, therefore, all repent unto me, as being forever true of themselves, forever. Or they shall die unto me, as being forever true.
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122 And, they must repent, quickly at this time of the fallen true earth, forever, and turn unto me forever. And I am seen, as: “The god of truth“, forever.
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123 And, as I am truth forever. Those nonchristian, true rebellious, seen nations, as they are found unto me and found by me, in their seen satanism, forever. They must turn unto me, as being forever true,
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124 And, through, my eternal, and most true judgment, that is called: “The judgment of the nations“. If they, shall not repent, unto me, as being forever seen,
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125 As being quickly seen in repenting to me now, and, as being forever true. Then I shall cause war and or plagues and or famines,
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126 To seek out those ungodly true nations. That are nations, that are found unto me, in death, as being forever true, of themselves forever.
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127 And I will destroy them forever. And I shall even cause their pleasant true skies, to flee away from them, forever. And I shall stop the rain, unto them, forever,
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128 And I shall stop the snow unto them, and I shall cause their crops to die, unto them. And all their animals, shall die, unto me, and I shall fight against those satanism true ones, as forever seen.
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129 And I (god) shall call fire out of the sky to devour them, in all their seen labors. That is found in this satan true life, forever.
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130 And, those ungodly, true, non christian nations. That are found unto satanism, forever. They shall cease to exist, in the earth, forever,
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131 Unless they repent and receive Jesus christ, as christ Jesus, being their seen savior, forever.
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132 Therefore, let your false gods, and let satan give you life forever. And in his (satan) hand of life, thou shalt die in his tainted true life, forever, for in sin, thou art already found in satan himself, forever.
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133 And satan’s true hand of life, it isn’t christly true life, as found in me forever, but it is truly found unto me forever, as death forever,
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134 And in satan, thou art already cursed with death and thou shalt die forever, unless thou renounce satan forever, by accepting Jesus christ,
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135 As by, accepting Jesus christ, as thy seen, personal, living forever, true savior. As christ Jesus, is given of me forever, unto the earth, forever.
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136 Therefore, let all nations, consider, through the judgment of the nations. That they need to consider, their ways of blasphemous eternal true death, that is forever and ever upon them, forever,
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137 And that, they must repent, or I will destroy them, for desiring to be non christian nations of the earth, forever.
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138 And, in me, is the life called man and woman, as forever seen--therefore--repent--or thou shalt die unto me forever, saith thy god, who is thy creator, as forever seen.
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Roger wallace author of “THE GOD OF TRUTH”, found at: I-proclaim, isbn 978-1-60585-521-9.

Anonymous:

Arab governments in the ME and Israel have a common enemy: Sunni Islamists. Both of them don't want real Islamists, who want to govern by Sharia, to exist because it will cost Arab leaders their power, seats, thrones,..etc.

After the US failure in Afghanistan and Iraq, and Israel in Lebanon against Hezbollah, the wind stopped blowing in the direction of what Arab leaders and Israelis want.

This disgraceful Israeli defeat exposed many dangerous issues. one of whcih is the issue of Palestinians in Lebanon.

Where will the Plaestinians in Lebanon go?

Arabs will never accept the Israelis existence because they raped and looted their lands. Arabs live next to these raped lands.They will never forget them..No matter what?

The real issue isn't acceptance. The issue is how long will Palestinans and other Arabs live in abject poverty and disgrace

Freeman:

Shame you Mr Anwer Share and shame the country where you live in..You are azionist more than Shrone as will ..

Freeman:

Shame you mr Anwer Share and shame the country where you live in .. you are azionist more than Sharone ..

palestinien:

shame you mr Anwer Sher and shame the country which you live in ..and your name supouse to be sharon ..

Venkat:

Are you angry with fellow jehadis in Palestine or is this writeup is to please the rank idiotic Yanks and get more aid to use that aid to create more 9/11's?

If you are sincere in your opinion, hope you advise Pakistani jehadis who come in different hues like PPP/ PML or Pervert Mushy to do the same in Kashmir. In case you want more land try and use your army (an army that can never win any wars except capturing Parliament or being the conduit for the world's Drug/Gun running trade thru your favorite terrorists Dawood and AQ Khan) to capture parts of Iran, Afghanistan or recapture your lost limb BUNGLEdesh since their armies are even worse than yours.

Kurt Engelhart:

"Arabs must learn to accept Israel in their midst...the country is there to stay."

From my observations, and my understanding of the cultural issues, this is never going to happen. What might happen is that Arabs accept Jews in a democratic society that also accepts Arabs. I am praying for all sides to make this happen.

Enlightenment:

Juswispros:
Wasn't the arab world conquered by Muslims by the sword.... Just wondering... Does that mean they have to return the land to Sephardic Jews, Catholics, Zorasters & idolitors (sp?)? I do, however, get your point... Just that there is no one who is without fault in this issue

Asim:

Are you going to repeat the mantra: "As a racist apartheid entity,israel was born dead,it has no moral or legal legitimacy what so ever . . " everywhere?

This, on its face, seems to be a learned dogma as oppossed to individual thought and consideration of the subject.

We know Sharia requires that Muslim lands never be surrendered, until death. Beyond this dogma, what else can you contribute? Do you forget the racism of Ottomans? Do you forget that non-muslims are discriminated against throughout the Muslim Arab world? Is a Hindi allowed to own land or vote in the Muslim world? (Almost, AND NOTE I SAID ALMOST, without exception, NO!)

JusWisPros:

A land taken by force can never be left to the ones who took it.

This Mr Anwer Sher doesn't live in Palestine; he is a banker and he has a Master Degree..He doesn't represent one percent of palestinians opinion

This old holy and great land deserves an astronomically far better fate than the one it is living since 60 years : permanent violence, killings, wars...

No other land on earth deserves peace and happiness than this one, and this for any creature living upon its soil.

The only way to procede for the trapped "Militaro-Religious based System" ruling it now is to :

1) Accept the return into this land and APOLOGIZE to these people who had been displaced in misery and sufferings since the begining of the 20th century by terror and slaughter.
2) Compensate financially these people for their own pain and for all the victims that the System caused during more than 60 years
3) Accept to live with them in a democrartic non religious-based, non-belligerant, non-militrily super equiped state named Palestine or Israel with open borders.

These are THE only righteous conditions for violence to stop, for jewish-muslim-christian to have nights of 12 hours of calm sleep in this land.

This mean that the "Militaro-Religious based System" should change to a human, equalitarian peaceful one.
It will be the Switzerland of the ME.

It might even peacefully unify with all the surrounding small states : Lebanon, Jordan and Syria and become a haven of Prosperity.

The Great Israel, once sought by bombs and fire, may be obtained and SHARED in Peace, Wisdom and Justice.

Nota : * The cost of the separating wall and the permanent military expenses going with it surpasses the Palestinians's compensation.

Asim, San Antonio:

Anwar,U should be ashamed of yourself-no Arab,Muslim or especially Plaestinian will ever accept the Indian occuppation of Mulsim majority Kashmir and indian denial of the right to self determiniation to Kashmiris-in this respect no different than israel.

As a racist apartheid entity,israel was born dead,it has no moral or legal legitimacy what so ever ,it has no constitution,no borders:no colonial settler state ever survived in the Arab East:the crusaders' statelets were finally evicted after a fragmented and precerious existence for two centuries;French colonialism in and of Alegeria for 130 years did not fare better,so was the nuclear armed racist apartheid white south africa.

israel has no chance in hell to survive-not while eleven million tormented and dispossessed Palestinians live either in jewish concentration camps in their own homeland or in refugee camps within one or two hours drive from their occupied home lands in historic Palestine.

Solution:
One secular multi-cultural multi-religious democrcay for all: Arabs (Christains and Muslims)and jews who lived in historic Palestine at or before 1914-all other jews who landed there after 1914 who are in fact illegal jewish immigrants sumggled by the British mandate authority should go back to where they come from and leave the homes and land they stole from the ethnically cleanesed Palestinians by jewish terrorist groups(hagana,palmach,irgun,shtern)in 1947/8.

No other solution will ever work-never;it is just untainable to have an occupying racist apartheid militaristic jewish theocracy on Arab land and in the heart of the Arab world.

Carol M Frey, Raleigh, NC:

The most shocking thing about this post is its reason and fairness. Too often, moderate opinion holders allow themselves to be shouted out of the conversation needed to solve problems. As a US Army wife and supporter of Israel's right to exist, I applaud you for speaking out -- and for being right. Mistakes have been made on all sides. Peace will require justice as well as compassion.

Anonymous:

Israel should think in terms of 'Post American Power'; it is the only to survive.

Morag MacDonald:

Israel may well survive to reach its 100 birthday, but unless Israel offers some sort of just settlement to the Palestinians the odds of doing so
are drastically reduced.

It must be very difficult to have your land taken away and then be told you have to recognize the theft as being valid.
all the Palestinians are asking is that Israel leave
them the small portion of Palestine that is left eg., The West Bank ,Gaza and East Jerusalem.In the circumstances it seems a very reasonable position to
take.

Enlightenment:

A number of Points:

1. Israel has already conceded significantly to achieve peace, Sinai for non-agression with Egypt.
2. Egypt's economy which is far less reliant on oil than many others in the middle east is better than average in part b/c they don't have to over-build military to keep up with their neighbors.
3. When has any Arab Nation offerred land to the Muslim Palestinians for a homeland? Never, most were treated worse as refugees after '48 than they were treated in Israel
4. Christian Arabs are active members of Israeli society, curious if we are talking about an arab-european ancestry conflict. The religious tennants of more conservative/radical islam and Centuries of Jewish fears fuel this conflict.
5. When lands that were considered part of Palestine were Occupied by Egypt, Jordan and Syria, from '48 to '67, did anyone demand that they be turned over to the "rightful" government of Israel? No. Did they offer to the Muslim Palestinians as homeland? No.
6. Who is Israel to negotiate with? Hamas? Is Hamas really idependent to make decisions without approval of Hezbollah? Is Hezbollah really independent to make decisions without the Syrians? Are the Syrians really independent to make decisions without Iranian approval?
7. A wise man once wrote Arabs cannot win a war without Egypt and cannot have peace without Syria. Modern Edit would have to include Iran.
8. Solution that will never happen - Palestinians get Gaza and Sinai, Isreal gets pre '67 borders, plus Golan and West Bank, minus Jerusalem, which becomes international city occupied by international peace keepers.

I'm sure this will garner criticism, so be it.

Mikie:

Israel is a ball and chain to the US, but the fratricidal Arabs are the last folks who should get the benefit of the doubt.
And yeah, Persians can be lumped in with Arabs, based on faith and customs and proximity, but mostly in hatred.
You lost, get real.

Tom:

First off, Iranians are not Arabs so stop grouping them with the Arabs(ie "Arabs Must Accept Israel" and you talk about Iran in the same breath). How do you have a Masters in International Relations and you don't know this? I guess money really can buy anything these days. I know this is an opinion article but what a stupid opinion and the Washington Post is even dumber for putting it up. "Arabs Must Accept Israel"...that's your solution to this conflict? Unbelievable, for the past 60 years these two sides have been fighting an endless battle that has cost numerous lives and yet the answer has been in this article the entire time! Hope you're picking up on the sarcasm because I am laying it on pretty thick. I mean it must be pretty easy to comment on the struggles of others from sunny Dubai.

Chaotician:

Oh, it may continue for a thousand years; but at what cost? The only viable long term solution is:
1) Israel to be reconstituted in its more or less legal 1948 boundaries; or
2) Create a new secular Palestinian state where all religions can be practiced and there is no religious or ethnic advantage to any peoples; all occupied lands to be repatriated to the original owners; all resources to be shared to all peoples as a common good; Israel to pay for its illegal and immoral occupation; and a public apology to the Palestinian peoples would be welcome start to healing the disastrous alienation of the Zionists!

Without either of these remedies, I am afraid we are just in waiting for the inevitable loss by Israel of some crucial battle and the resulting Diaspora once again of the Jews; perhaps accompanied with a nuclear "event" that could bring on the desired Armageddon of the Christian “life hating” fundamentalists!

captn_ahab:

The Jews in Germany never declared war on Germans, and never fought to eradicate the German state. The Germans made war on the Jews because they were Jews. Although the Israeli actions against Palestinians in the territories may at times be brutal, this brutality arises from an ongoing guerrilla/terrorist war that the Palestinians have instigated to destroy Israel. Thus, it is a gross and unfair comparison to even suggest that the treatment of the Jews by the Nazis should sensitize the Jews to their treatment of Palestinians. If the Palestinians were a peaceful people just living their lives, you might have a point. However, any truth you may have been seeking is obscured by this distortion of history and politics. It is in fact the Palestinians who are quite similar to Nazi Germans in that their propaganda against Israel is filled with anti Semitic vitriol, and they try to kill as many Israelis as they can merely because they are Jews.

riccardo lucas:

who does isreal have to accept?

Billy:

You make a going point. The only issue is people are willing to accept Israel, but not the current Israel. If they abide by the rules of the civilized world then they can be accepted. Until then how can anyone be asked to accept them.

Usman The Anti Jihadist:

My solution:

Move Saudis to Las Vegas where they can gamble, go after blond hookers and have camel races in surrounding desert. Make sure they are given a hefty annual stipend.
.
UN takes over the oil fields for good of humanity.

Move Palestinians in refugee camps to Saudi Arabia.
Those who resist this plan declare Christian Holy War and kill them so they can go to paradise and enjoy 72-virgins

Anonymous:

Anwar Sher and Salman Rushdie are the same person, the same infidel!

Jihad Khazen:

First a Palestinian state, then recognition. No war or fighting in between.

jwh:

This is an imperialistic statement !! Arabs must nothing.

As I suggested before, move Israel with all their holly things, grounds, walls and cities to the U.S.A. and let the Arab world choose there own future. The only ones that profit from the wars in this world are western hemisphere weapon manufacturers. And finally America should take care of its own people instead of poking their noses into others business.

jgrasse:

Do u mean the Arabs must allow Israel to take the best land and water supplies? What Israel's borders anyway? I dont support Israel because they dont have borders.

Fisch, BN, Germany:

But more important seems to be that Israel accepts it neighbors, Hamas and Hezbollah included. That could create a win/win situation for all, in the borders of 67.

Tom Barrett:

It is frightening to think how rarely we encounter such a fair-minded and balanced view of the Arab-Israeli conflict. In Europe almost everyone blames the Israelis for all the problems. In the United States, and to a lesser extent in Canada, the Palestinians and their Arab supporters get all the blame. A realistic view is that the atrocity scores of both groups are too close to call. Extremists on both sides are the barrier to a peaceful settlement.
Israel deserves to exist in peace. The Palestinians deserve a return to the pre-1967 borders,a fair division of Jerusalem and financial compensation for those whose land was seized but who obviously cannot return. I wish I could be optimistic that the men and women of peace on both sides will get their way.

Robert:

This is a surprising commentary. I don't pretend to have understood it in the context of its title.

If the implication is that 'Israel's violence against the Arabs is something the Arabs must accept' this is very difficult to achieve.

One fundamental flaw in the argument lies in the evident erosion of Israel's military might which was helped Israel to maintain an uneasy and in many cases bloody existence - up to 1967.

Since 1973, the validity of the central Israeli strategy: 'maintaining military superiority' is gradually becoming a dangerous illusion. Despite advanced weaponry and a fearsome air force and army, Israel had to withdraw from the Lebanon in 2000 and rush out of the Lebanon in 2006.

While in the former, one can argue that pressure by the Israeli people compounded that of the daily encounters with the Lebanese armed groups, the latter, the July 2006 war was a battle fought on level playing fields... and for all intents and purposes lost.

The advent of rocketry, primitive or advanced, is taking the battle to Israel's hinterland. It was astonishing how, after a month of Israeli bombardment, the Lebanese armed groups were able to launch as many rockets in the last day of the 2006 war as they did on the first.

And now it seems the Gazans are following the example of the Lebanese - and in more ways than one. Israel's army is apparently helpless but for revenge forays and streams of arrests that is swelling Israeli prisons... some 11,500 Palestinian prisoners!

Finally the entry of Iran, the alienation of Russia and the growing Syrian arsenal. Israel is towing the line dictated by the US administration. Its alliance with the US has never been more burdensome. The price it is paying will radically affect its future.

Consequentially, one would need to ask: What concessions would Israel make if the illusory military supremacy is replaced with continued but dampened military superiority - let alone parity? One cannot think of one that is not prejudicial to the Jewishness of Israel.

With that in mind, I am inclined to believe that Israel's leadership would either seek a "Samson's exit," as coined by Seymour Hirsh, or come to terms with the Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese... But those terms would be considerably more favorable to them than if it did so 40, 30, 30, 20 or even a year ago!

Clearly: there are no indications that Israel will be the same in sixty years. I hope the change will come much sooner. It will bring a relief to Israelis and Arabs, and to those watching this endless tragedy.


dr.kahoor khan hooshaapi:

Mr.Anwer Sher's article is a contradiction in suggestion,advice and vague answers.he is blaming the Hamas and Hezbullah for planning to destroy Isreal, but failed to explain the creation of Hamas and Hezbullah.I do not like the radicals,but to describe the truth is the noblest to deal with,as each and everyone who is aware of the print media, realize that Hamas is the elected side of Palestinians but Tel Aviv is insisting to embrace the defeated Mahmoud Abbas and even the Americans ans Eu. states are extending the aids to Mahmoud Abbas which is a clear insult to the democratic norms prevailed in most western countries.I wonder how this Pakistani is participating in so many famous newspapers when he has not the slightest piece of political knowledge,as of the fact, if Isreal had proceeded a peace talk with Hamas and Syria over Golan heights and Palestine crisis,wouldn't that have been a positive step to slash a feather of the wing of the Iranian BIRD in Lebanon and drag the Syrians a neutral position?.Isreal is the first and only democratic state in Middle East where the government is elected by the people of that country and I hope the leaders of Tel Aviv will begin the negotiations with Hamas and Syria for a solution of the crisis and stop taking advices from GWB and his HAWKS of the administration who have sunk United States of America in Iraq and Afghanistan quagmires.

Sybill:

Well, nice sounding words.
But after Israel
pulls a few more genocide sweeps, kills more men
and women and children,expands the 46% or more
settlements and roads on the west bank,

shall you get away with who must accept whom?
In a world that strongly disagrees with you?

Good luck with that. It is insane.

JBE:

What a clear-eyed observation you've penned!

The obsticles to peace between Arab nations and Israel are currently tribal.

We need political - not tribal - approaches.

For instance on "right of return", the pride of the Arab community that demands right of return is exactly like the Chinese needing to save face in every negotiation...and it has become a tribal issue.

It is IMPOSSIBLE for there EVER to be an actual return of Palestinians to homes occupied by Israeli citizens. Perhaps the settlements in the west bank can be emptied and the buildings and land handed back to the Palestinian authority in representation of the lost homes and land...

But REALISTICALLY NO PALESTINIAN IS EVER GOING TO RETURN TO A HOME OCCUPIED BY A ISRAELI FAMILY TODAY.

It isn't a realistic goal. Sure, some Palestinians want to see the footage of tearful children and parents being escorted away to a refugee center by Israeli soldiers and joyous gunfire in the land on which those homes sit... But it is NEVER going to happen.

This injures the pride of those Palestinians who's ancestors were forced out. Pride MUST be dealt with. Unfortunately it is tribal in nature and few Arab voices can rise above the tribal clatter.

Israel is keeping millions of people in occupation in a very tribal response. Some Israeli's think the Palestinians should go to Jordan and forget they ever lived in what is now Israel... or the west bank... "and btw let's re-take Gaza..." It is NEVER going to happen!

Tribalism has no place in the 21st century. It is not lending a solution as it had for thousands of years for both populations.

Instead PRAGMATISM is required.

Unfortunately the last pragmatic Israeli politician was shot to death by a jewish extremist, and the pragmatic Palestinians are derided by tribalists and terrorists as "traitors".

Bring on the pragmatists!

bob burns:

Accusations and demands are a way to avoid solutions. Agreements are reached when one views issues from the others perspective and makes offers accordingly. How, in this piece, have you done that? Looks like the same old BS, completely w/o any substance

B. Lloyd:

Unlike Kattab, this man is at least rational.

Perhaps as a Pakistani he understands Israel's position, if only a little.

Imagine telling his countrymen that they had to accept a one-state solution on the Indian Subcontinent.

Martiniano:

I thought this way in the past. But I honestly think it is more like this: As long as the US is a superpower Israel will continue to exist. But China will eclipse the US before we know it. And what concern is Israel to China? China has shown in Sudan that they will exploit any situation for their own good. Israel has no oil.

I doubt that Israel will survive long when China is the most powerful nation.

kellyp:

A world of difference with the numbers. The Israeli citizens targeted by the arab freedom fighters are typically unarmed Jewish children or old people. While the arabs that are killed are more often those so called "freedom fighters" and the civilians that they cowardly surround themselves with when they shoot at the Jews.

farkdawg:

The last death count I saw about 5 Muslim Palestinians die in Israel for every one Israeli death. Does it matter that the Muslims are killed by rockets and other "conventional" weapons, while the Israelis die by suicide bombers and remote explosives aka "terrorism"? Is a death a death or do the means by which the people die matter?

If you answer the last question with a "yes, the means matter a lot" put yourself in the other side's shoes. Empathize for a minute. Is your answer honestly the same? If the Palestinians had a helicopter with laser guided missles and killed people that way would victims' families "feel" better in some way?

Both sides have to give. Both sides have to make concessions. We can not point fingers or speak in absolutes. The tone of this article gets there but the title puts some on the defensive and some on the attack, as I'll bet the comments to this article will show.

farkdawg:

Sorry.
I find any discussion about these old, incendiary topics that begin with one group "must" do something to be a little absurd.

The moderates, which are the majority should take control of the conservatives who stew in their sweat soaked hatred of the other. Both Jewish Israelis and Muslims should consider representing their best interests rather than the hardline of the radicals.

Homer wrote, in the Odyssey, "in all things, balance is better." I don't think that's changed.

farkdawg:

The answer is for Syria and Israel to join together for one big region called Syrael. There are enough religious nuts and clusters of radicals to keep the fruits and engrained holdouts from turning it all into mush.

You're welcome.

Ivan Groznii:

I'm sorry but if Mexicans were lobbing rockets into San Diego from there side of the border or Hispanic separatists were conducting murder-bombing "operations" of cafes in Tucson, I would very much be for the occupation of Northern Mexico.

Until the Arabs on the borders are willing to recognize the right of Israel to exist and actually do something about the terrorists in their midsts, I have no problem with an Israeli occupation of Gaza, the West Bank and southern Lebanon.

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