Israel’s Double Edge Sword

They say the truth is a double edge sword. I suppose that could have a few meanings. One meaning could be that it can cut others but if your not careful with it you can cut yourself. Israel, like everyone else, has been subject to the pride cycle. When we look at the rise and fall of Rome we see that pride (and corruption) cometh before the fall.

Dictators rise and fall. Oppression never lasts forever. Natural justice yearns for freedom. At one point in time, Israel were slaves in Egypt. Then came Moses who led his people on a long journey to freedom. Then came Jeremiah who warned Zedekiah about pride. They threw Jeremiah in prison for predicting Jerusalem would fall. Then God used Israel’s enemies to teach them a lesson.

Nebecanezzar conquered Israel and the survivors were carried away captive into Babylon. The pride cycle shows us that no matter how big and bad we think we are, any one of us can fall. Even the mighty Goliath. Recognizing the existence of a higher power can sometimes help us retain a certain amount of humility and avoid the trap of pride. Yet often religion is exploited and simply feeds the pride cycle.

Some refer to Jews as God’s chosen people. However when you look at history that’s kind of like referring to the luck of the Irish. The potato famine, British occupation, the Northern Ireland conflict, if that’s luck then God help them. Personally I prefer the term covenanted people. Moses made a covenant with God to serve Him and God promised to help Moses if Moses kept his covenant. It was the same covenant God made with Abraham and renewed with Isaac and Jacob. After making that covenant Abraham and everyone who renewed that covenant became known as Israel which means God preserves. Yes Abraham, Isaac and Jacob did have other children who also have a claim on the land as well.

Moses warned the people that God did not give them the promised land because of their righteousness. He gave them the land because of the former inhabitant’s wickedness. Not the Palestinians. Before the Palestinians lived there. Those people were really bad. History also demonstrates that although Palestinians do have a right to live in Palestine they were not the first inhabitants of all that land. In most of the land, Israel was there before them. That is a historical fact.
My point is that Jews do not have exclusive claim on all the land in Palestine and neither do the Palestinians. The God of Israel, the Great Architect of the Universe, the Grand Geometrician, Allah Himself has decreed, "Thou shalt not vex the stranger that sojourneth with thee."

I have no doubt that Israel will one day be puffed up in pride and all the armies of the world will gather to destroy her and keep Jerusalem under siege for three and a half years. Nevertheless, right now Gaza is bombing Israel and refuses to stop. Israel has a right to create a buffer zone to put them out of range of the Hamas rockets. That is just.