Comments on: Is it Time for Candor? Speaking out on Israel and Palestine http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/06/11/is-it-time-for-candor-speaking-out-on-israel-and-palestine/ Ruminations on culture, religion, and politics from diverse perspectives of faith. Sun, 06 Nov 2011 04:19:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: alex saliby http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/06/11/is-it-time-for-candor-speaking-out-on-israel-and-palestine/comment-page-1/#comment-169 alex saliby Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:29:12 +0000 http://currentsoffaith.com/?p=53#comment-169 John, This is 2000 words of hogwash (my guess on word count). You have your historical data all wrapped up in your religious wish list sheet. Fact: no Jews ruled in any country let alone their own since about 550 bc (give or take a century, depending upon whom one reads). Fact: no Christians ever...repeat...EVER ruled, that is had a country in the region. Fact: Europeans (specifically the Brits) conned HST to make the decision regarding the recognition of Israel as a sovereign nation in 1948. Fact: When western Christians agreed to create a Jewish Theocracy in the middle of what had been for some 1700 years a Muslim realm over the verbal and above the objections of Jordans King Abdullah I, the set in motion the political mess which continues to plague the region. Regarding the 'Holy land' Christians and Jews need to sit back and accept the fact: that land and control of it doesn't belong to them. The middle east needs to stop being a horrid center for death and destruction for the advancement of some religious clap-trap. John,
This is 2000 words of hogwash (my guess on word count).

You have your historical data all wrapped up in your religious wish list sheet.

Fact: no Jews ruled in any country let alone their own since about 550 bc (give or take a century, depending upon whom one reads).

Fact: no Christians ever…repeat…EVER ruled, that is had a country in the region.

Fact: Europeans (specifically the Brits) conned HST to make the decision regarding the recognition of Israel as a sovereign nation in 1948.

Fact: When western Christians agreed to create a Jewish Theocracy in the middle of what had been for some 1700 years a Muslim realm over the verbal and above the objections of Jordans King Abdullah I, the set in motion the political mess which continues to plague the region.

Regarding the ‘Holy land’ Christians and Jews need to sit back and accept the fact: that land and control of it doesn’t belong to them.

The middle east needs to stop being a horrid center for death and destruction for the advancement of some religious clap-trap.

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