Since the 2nd millennium BC, when the people of Israel committed aggression, the Lord God of Israel rewarded them with victory and ownership of the Land.
In 1948, Yahweh gave them victory over the biggest and mightiest Empire the world has ever seen. With God on their side they won every war since 1948 - but they are STILL not living in peace and security. Their enemies remain surrounding them. Tragic, unhappy Israel.
The mightiest, WMD-equipped, regional super-power still can't exterminate Hamas. Is the IDF simply incompetent, I have to ask myself?
Israel even has Emperor Trump backing them to the hilt. He was saved, indeed by the Lord God Himself but, they still can't wrap up the war in a glorious victory to achieve the Greater Promised Land from the River to the Sea, as the Likud Charter puts it as their objective. Quite shameful failure, this time.
For the first time in over 3,000 years, under the most ultra-nationalist, right-wing Government, Israel has ever seen, they may be incapable of winning this never-ending, insurgent-led war (cf Vietnam War). Even with every modern military piece of kit supplied by the Judeo-Christian, American-led West.
What is the matter with our Bibi and his friends? I started reading his autobiography when I was with some lovely Messianic Christian friends, of whom Linda is one. All three are very pro-Israel. Yet, I was disappointed that even after Mosad received reports of suspicious-looking, even suggested military activities, over the border in Gaza, prior to 7.10.23, the arrogance, complacency and disbelief of Bibi's Government, meant they still did not act. As Head of Government, Bibi lacked the integrity to do the honourable thing and resign as the one responsible for this very serious and horrific security lapse.
Israel and its Judeo-Christian, American-led, Western allies have made enemies throughout the Middle East with their grasping of Arab oil to fuel their 20th-century wars; with their military bases on holy Muslim soil - the most mortal sin imaginable for some Muslims like Osama bin Laden. Such men were appalled at the moral decadence and immorality, as they saw it, of the 'Christian' West. We rarely were a good example with our democratic duplicity, democratic double standards, democratic coercion, force and violence and, in effect, giving ourselves a democratic American/European base in the heart of Muslim/Arab country as a blatant reward for their/our side's aggression. We have not covered ourselves in glory over the last 125 years in the Middle East.
My jaundiced view of Christian ethics as actually practised and, of British behaviour around the world, was not helped by my reading and re-reading of Jeremy Bowen's 2022 book, 'The Making of the Modern Middle East'. Measured, fair, accurate and always a seeker after the truth, the true facts. And, like Sam, yourself and me - Bowen is also happy to be corrected!
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