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Solution for the Arab Israeli Conflict

by Donald E. Hester on Sunday, 22 February 2009 Current Events 0 Comments

Flag Globe Why can't Muslims, Jews and Christians get along? For thousands of years there has been the unresolved conflict between the Arabs and the Jews. The Arab Israeli conflict defies a simple solution. Come to think of it; it defies a complex solution. The problem seems to be the control of the holy land. Now to look at this we need to get some context.

The Arabs descended from Abraham through Ishmael and Esau. The Jews descended from Abraham through Jacob. Now most people are aware the Jewish and Christian holy scriptures say that God gave the land to the decedents of Israel (Jacob). However, those very same scriptures also indicate that land is set aside for the descendants of Ishmael and Esau. The way I read this, both people groups are entitled to land.

Why don't they get along then? There is also a prophecy that the descendants of Ishmael would be at odds with the descendants of Jacob. Wow, a prophecy in the Bible predating Islam that says there would not be peace and there isn't.

Whatever solution is offered needs to include a place for everyone. Everyone will need to accept that there needs to be a place for everyone.

How should the Arabs treat the Israelis and how should the Israelis treat the Arabs? They need to treat each other with kindness and realize God loves them both. The God of Abraham says:

"He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the alien, giving him food and clothing. And you are to love those who are aliens, for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt."¹

"He shows love to the foreigners living among you and gives them food and clothing. So you, too, must show love to foreigners, for you yourselves were once foreigners in the land of Egypt. "²

גֵּר alien, stranger, foreigner, i.e., one who is of a different geographical or cultural group, often with less rights than the reference group.³

I specifically said the God of Abraham because the Jews, Christians and Muslims all call Him God. This is what He has commanded us to do. How can you claim to support the God of Abraham, by violating His commands? Is God is a man that He should change His mind?

People take the principle of justice of an 'eye for an eye' out of context and use it to retaliate to a point that no one knows what started it all. If we claim to faithfully follow the prophets how can we claim that God hates one or the other?

1. The Holy Bible : New International Version. electronic ed. Grand Rapids : Zondervan, 1996, c1984, S. Dt 10:17-19

2. Tyndale House Publishers: Holy Bible : New Living Translation. 2nd ed. Wheaton, Ill. : Tyndale House Publishers, 2004, S. Dt 10:18-19

3. Swanson, James: Dictionary of Biblical Languages With Semantic Domains : Hebrew (Old Testament). electronic ed. Oak Harbor : Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1997, S. DBLH 1731

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Wounded Dragon

by Donald E. Hester on Tuesday, 23 December 2008 Book Reviews 0 Comments

China Town Have you ever seen a small wounded animal caught in a corner? It has nothing to lose and everything to gain. It will unload with all it fury and adrenaline to fight ferociously to survive. Now imagine a huge dragon that is wounded and caught between a rock and a hard place. Razor sharp teeth and claws ferociously searching out flesh, grasping at survival in a life a death situation. China is that wounded dragon.

In his book “The Coming China Wars”, Peter Navarro goes over how China has become everything communism was against in the first place, mainly the exploitation of the peasant or working class. There are eight different ‘wars’ discussed in the book. All of the wars are related to China's unsustainable economy, which will require 10% growth per year. This has turned China into the new Imperialist China where China rapes the rest of the world for its own benefit.

The eight wars are:

1. Piracy, China uses piracy to copy just about everything such as DVDs, pharmaceuticals, cars and electronics. This will not change because communism and Taoist philosophies claim that no one owns the rights to anything and that people as a whole own everything. This is tied to China's ability to mass-produce anything as the World's factory floor. Navarro calls it China's weapons of mass production. China can out-produce any nation in the world.

2. Drugs, China is the world’s largest producer of illegal drugs and precursor chemicals. Triad gangs protect the trade and corrupt politicians turning a blind eye, for money or for fear of their lives. China becomes the supplier and has a stranglehold on addicts.

3. Environmental destruction, China will lead the world in pollution within the next decade. Currently, China lack clean water for its own population. Upstream factories pollute the water going to population centers. Those same factories pollute the air in jet stream bring that pollution to the west coast of North America. Where will China’s population go to get away from their own pollution?

4. Blood for Oil, China's support of Iran for access to Iranian oil fields. While China suppresses, out numbers and kills Muslims in western China they support terrorist nations like Iran. China continues to use it power of veto to stop the UN from taking any action against Iran.

5. Imperialism at its best, China supports any country and any government without any ethical constraints for access to natural resources. ‘Business only’, being China's motto they will go into any 3rd world country give the governing officials money, build infrastructure and use their UN veto power to stop any sanctions against these countries, all for access to the natural resources. Once the natural resources have been depleted China will leave them high and dry.

6. Dam happy attitude, China likes to make mega dams even on fault lines with no consideration of environmental impacts, inhabitants or downstream countries. China has no consideration of life safety or environmental concerns.

7. Internal Wars, China's human rights violations are turning into a grave internal problem. With over 100,000 protests a year, the citizens of China are continuing to grow tired of corrupt government. Safety in factories is often overlooked and millions are injured annually, while worker's anger grows.

8. The pension ticking time bomb, China has a larger problem than the US and Europe when it comes to retirement of baby boomer age adults prepare for retirement. Many of China's citizens relay on the Iron Rice Bowl, social security, which is now gone with nothing to replace it.

What will Chine do as it has a population that is restless, hungry, jobless, tormented by a corrupt government and living in pollution? Meanwhile their need for natural resources like oil continues to grow exponentially coupled with a lack of ethical restraints.

With these eight factors, are we entering a perfect storm on the world stage?
Given the world’s current economic crisis what do you think will happen with China?

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