SO. IF...

  Yesterday I was asked a question based on the posting I did. It was thus, so if I am so questioning of war and why it happens, and seemingly so confident in the possibility of ending it, then why am I not saying the same about the war in the Middle East between Israel and the numerous Arab/Moslem nations there? Why can this war not be fixed, resolved, all the underlying issues taken into account? 

The crux of the matter is that is not a war like other wars. There have been other wars of long duration: The Hundred Years War, The Seven Years War, The Cousin's War, World War II from its official inception and even its prologue. Civil wars within many nations, including ours, also lasted through multiple years. In some cases, the causative issues have not yet been resolved, including right here in the good old USA. 

But the war in the Middle East is different. It is a war that began multiple millennia ago, when the Lord Above spoke to Abraham, the first Jew, and promised him and his descendants the Promised Land, the entirety of the land then called Canaan, to be the new homeland of His people, the Jewish nation. Forever. This is the same G-d of the Christian religions and the Muslim sects, whom they call Allah, the first two letters meaning the same - Above, incorporating the belief that G-d was above all. Both of those religions derived from or were born from the original one - Judaism.

 Abraham was then told by G-d to leave his homeland, the land of his forefathers and go to the Promised Land. Thus began a long, long journey of thousands and thousands of years. Many times, for various reasons, the majority of Jews were exiled from that land but always and forever they returned. There was never a time when two things were not true. The first is that there were always Jews residing in Israel. Always. The second is that Jews never abandoned Israel as their promised homeland, no matter how well settled in and loyal to the lands they were in which they sheltered. Always incorporated in their prayers was a desire to return. Always they prayed in the direction of that land, their homeland and in the darkness and the hell of the Holocaust in a secret synagogue they prayed to return to Zion. In the massacres and expulsions from lands of the Diaspora, their prayers remained the same.

Christians and Muslims then took the upon themselves the claim that the land was their promised land and for hundreds of years, they fought over that belief even as they knew that it was not so. It had been promised to another nation, so stated in the same Holy Book they all venerated. That original nation had no objection to their presence, to their habitation within the land, as long as the truth was always first and foremost: the land of the Israelites by word of G-d. 

Over the centuries many Jews made the holy trek to the site of the two temples, built and rebuilt on the same site of the near sacrifice of Isaac, the main sanctuary of Israel, the Mishkon, before the building of the Temples. The site of the Holy of Holies only to be entered after long and careful preparation by the Highest Priest of the land and there to commune with the Lord.    

Thousands upon thousands of archeological relics prove the presence of the Jewish nation in this land. That we built the temples. That we always were in the land. No matter how hard the Christians denied it. Or claimed we did not deserve it as we refused conversion to Christianity, and as the Moslems felt the same way. No matter how many of those pieces of evidence were and are crushed, discarded, as the Muslims continue illegal, immoral digging and discarding in the depths of their mosque, as they profane its holiness by bringing in weapons and set up ambushes from within, dishonoring the site of supreme holiness belonging to the nation of this land.  

The Jewish nation. 

The People of the Book.

The Nation of the Promised Land.

Ours yesterday-

Ours today.

Ours tomorrow.

Ours for all days to come.

So said the Lord.

So promised the Lord.

So continues the Lord to say.

 The next posting will continue to develop the reasons why there is a difference between this war and the other wars of humanity.