Tons of wool and they have no sheep.  Neighbours and practically no friends.  Everyone is an enemy to the United States and Israel and they are neither elect  nor choice.   Many of us have wool resistant eyes and the crimes of the United States and Israel have their day in court and it is not a vigilante “wild wild west” justice.  We remember when weapons of mass destruction could not be found in Iraq, and we remember when the Jewish people needed a home and Palestinians were practically the only residents of the Holy Land, and the modus operandi was theft .  We  can see that Abraham is the farthest thing from  role model for the politicians of Israel, America, or any of the Islamic Republics.  They can stop throwing wool about their respective heritages.

All their important strengths come from 20th century Germany

Israeli dominance cones from the patterns of civic government used in South Africa before Nelson Mandela.  The US dominates the world because of the German loot it collected at the end of WWII. Rocketry and ballistic engineering are German strongholds.  Is it any wonder that the technology developed by the Nazi regime make America great and mighty?

What will Israel say when its decades of appeasing religious hardliners is called into question?  Israel will say the Jewish people do not need to be told by anyone how to conduct their self-defense, because all that matters is the survival of the Jewish people.  It may be helpful to recall that Moses was so disgusted with his people that he asked his divine master to blot him out. It may also be helpful to recall that the Jewish people, upon returning from exile onto the auspices of a Persian government, resumed their racist and his xenophobic policies in the reconstituted Judea.  The Jewish people and the Israeli state are more enigmatic than most peoples and states.  It is time to realize that the self talk that keeps the Levant in perpetual turmoil and devastating criminality needs to end.  New Testament times, which is a profound interest to many Christians, show us how Christians were persecuted by zealous jews, chief among them, Saul of Tarsus.  Violence against innocent people, violence against people who were expressing a personal religious view, cannot be forgotten.  Today Israel is careful to allow protest, but for how long, and as the record has shown, the religious zealots will eventually dominate is really politics.

Destroying one’s neighbour cannot be a policy that stands, and the passion behind settler violence and Palestinian resistance needs some cold water.

On the seen and unseen, the eternal and transient, we have lingers too long in the kindergarten of smooth and sometimes silly conclusions.  Paul’s saying about visible and invisible things has been turned into absurd doctrine.

“While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.” (2 Corinthians 4:18, KJVA)

It is not an expression of absolute truth to assign eternity to unseen things, and finiteness to visible things.   Many things that are not seen perish.  Like the fingers and ears we see, the human heart, though unseen, perishes with the body.  In sober reflection of the things we all have to encounter, we acknowledge that there are words unspoken, words spoken, hopes cherished, hopes fulfilled, food eaten and nutrients never seen.  We are assured that the heavens (even the countless galaxies) themselves will be rolled up like a scroll.  The invisibility of racist policy all over the globe does not mean that racism is eternal. We should not let the spillover from the hidden word of God seduce us into the Pharisee urge to see and show