... O Israel, try being nice and generous to your enemies. Try talking instead of killing. Try using the Police to arrest, not kill and, then, bring to court for the judicial process to be used, instead! Loving enemies and turning them into friends is not our way, naturally, for any of us but then, "My ways are not your ways; neither are my thoughts your thoughts", says the Lord.
Embarrass and astonish your neighbours with your concessions (but not the way you gave away Gaza without a long-term and permanent peace agreement). Neighbours whom you have always distrusted, hated and killed can be lived with, even if it is only peaceful co-existence although, perhaps, even friendship may be possible eventually, as we have seen in N Ireland.
You, O Israel have all the trump cards and must take the initiative to try a new approach to get peace and justice for you and your neighbours. You cannot wait for them, the powerless with so little but hatred in their hearts to change unless you come up with new strategies to get peace and quiet - to get Shalom. Show them love and you maybe surprised with what you get returned to you - after the unbelief, the cynicism, the scepticism and suspicions!
In other words, O Israel, try being like a fundamentalist Christian and literally obey the life and teaching of the Jesus Christ of the Gospels, particularly his revolutionary advice in the Sermon on the Mount. Instead of warfare to bring peace that never comes, try the exact opposite approach. Generosity, concessions and sheer magnanimity but, above all else, listen and meet their wishes and dreams, if at all possible. You might then find that they are exactly like you (fellow terrorists - v naughty!!). Heaven forbid!
I have read, Steve Mitzer's 'An Idiot's Guide to the Middle East Conflict'. For me, the idiots are the people who continue with the conflict. The idiots are the tough, show no mercy, but hammer-them-all-hard folk who are convinced that peace can only come from warfare and violence, rather than the established rule of law. Just as we have seen since the foolish, right wing religious man prayed at the Temple Mount in an act of stupid provocation. The flare ups since, this month, demonstrate for me that Israel behaves like those who flush spiders down the plug hole, rather than helping them out of the vertical sides of the slippery bath.
For the State of Israel, Hamas is exactly the same as Islamic State and both, it seems, must be exterminated by genocide. Not very ethical, to put it mildly!
These children of Abraham, rather than being a blessing on the rest of us as Yahweh promised, have been a curse, I'm afraid to say. And they still are. Yet, all the children of Abraham originate from the same earthly father (two mothers) but with the three different names for their same heavenly Father that the Christians, the Jews and the Muslims have for Him.
Learn, O Israel from the Sermon on the Mount, from the way the Nazis treated your ancestors and, from the tortuous peace process in N Ireland (channels of communication with the IRA were opened in 1972 to eventually bring the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement).
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