Let’s use some logic here. We’re all adults. We should be able to just sit down over a cup of whatever and reason this out. But the Israeli’s are acting like children. Or is it the Palestinians?
But hold on. Hillary Clinton was going to go over there and solve the whole deal. So was Joe Biden. Obama was going to solve it with a speech, wasn’t he? But now he won’t even go there. Not to Israel at least. So why aren’t we amazed?
Could it be that it’s hard to be amazed because humans have been preoccupied with controlling that small, worthless piece of real-estate, not just for centuries but for millennia. And succeeded at nothing.
Everybody’s been doing it. The ancient Babylonians, Persians, Romans. In more recent times the British occupied it. They were certainly gonna civilize the place. God knows they civilized the rest of the colonies, including wild, wild America. Or was it that America civilized itself, then kicked the British out?
Now Americans are shooting their best shots. Have been for how long? Let’s see. Didn’t we start getting stuck in that quicksand shortly after the British surrendered in 1948?
But we sell this middle-east gang short when we only go back to recent times like the glory days of the ancient Persians (anybody remember that’s now Iran? hmmm).
The Hebrew Bible sets it up long before that with some choice words about a guy named Ishmael, whose begats are said to include todays Muslems: Genesis 16:12 “And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him”. And that’s only 16 chapters into the biblical account of the big bang, for crying out loud.
But the Koran puts it a different way: Koran 19:54 “Also mention in the Book Ishmael: He was true to what he promised, and he was a messenger a prophet.”
So if all this stuff in the Bible and the Koran means God/Allah set the problem up — and a substantial part of the world’s population believe what one or the other of the two books has to say — how can mere humans make it all go away?
But neither the Koran nor the Bible included anything about Daddy-O. Unless. (hmm) Wait now… Unless …we consider recent references to the Messiah. Can I get an Amen here?
