Dire warnings about what is happening in Gaza have fallen on deaf ears, and the eyes remaining in Israel are blind. Leopards can start changing their spots any time now, and Ethiopians (Black people) can change their skin whenever racist clerics and failed politicians give them the signal.  The world needs neither settler explanations nor Zionist slogans to understand that Israel is on the path of the childish and foolish.  Earthly stuff like temples and festivals have never been the harbingers of justice or peace.  Generally speaking, toys like the tabernacle and the ark, and masquerades like holy days have nothing to do with life in divine terms.

Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD (Proverbs 1:29), would have none of my counsel and despised all my reproof (Proverbs 1:30), therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way, and have their fill of their own devices (Proverbs 1:31). For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacency of fools destroys them (Proverbs 1:32); but whoever listens to me will dwell secure and will be at ease, without dread of disaster (Proverbs 1:33).

Childish and foolish

Israel has shown, since its founding, that the rule of law is not a primary interest.  The state of Israel, like all the Islamic states, holds its population hostage to historical inaccuracies and ethnic toxicity. Their children are trapped in the world of superiority fables and behind walls of xenoohobia.  The holiness that once served as a guiding light is less than a smouldering ember.  The faith that people assume is the blessing behind the establishment of the Jewish state is also the fountain from which hatred of Gentiles and Palestinians in particular flow. If you think that Israelis are generally peace and justice loving people you should revisit the 77 years of Israeli history. Israelis have circled the wagons around the failure of their ancestors to annihilate Canaanites, and the Islamic states and the Palestinian leadership in the Occupied territories have jointly made Israel the object of hate.  That common enemy is exactly what Zionists thrive on.  The ancient residents of the  Promised Land did not measure up either.

Enforcing Peaceful Coexistence Should Be Easy

The idea of Jews living in peace side-by-side with anyone is a balloon surrounded by pins. That Israelis are racist in plain sight in the 21st century is matched – for shock and awe, for disgust and horror – only by that old cultural character trait of fratricide. Only the people who truly love their neighbour and honour their parents can righteously criticise Israel and every single Zionist.  If states like Israel can enforce bigotry,  illegal occupation, and enlist cheerleaders around the globe, they can re-educate their populations and open the doors to civic society.  I am one who, along with many other believers, prays for Jerusalem to have peace, because that city is a player in God’s plans for the planet. I guarantee you that the average Israeli will, when confronted with the moral demand of loving his neighbour, will ask “Who is my neighbour?” Looking in the other direction when any nation violates law (international or local) and hoping to be blessed for supporting Israeli interests at any cost can only be a cowardly and sycophantic.

No-one is secure until all of us are secure

When will Israel and Palestinians be secure? According to the governement run by the accused war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, security comes when the Palestinians have neither leaders of their own choosing nor a rising generation with pride in their history. South Africa and over a dozen countries believe that they can prove that Israel is engaged in genocide in Gaza and apartheid practices in the Occupied Territories. The casual observer can tell by the deliberate massacres that Israel is conducting that the Israeli government is in violation of basic human decency, kicking against the pricks of its history, and rejecting the ancient wisdom of treasuring the lives of all children and women, and bucking the established laws of war and occupation. My instinct regarding dead lions and living dogs is that Israel is incorrigible on its own. War crimes have been Israel’s modus operandi since 1948. Israel routinely orders the evacuation of Palestinians to supposedly safe spaces, and then Israel targets the innocent people and destroys their homes. In what universe can acts such as those committed by the Israeli government and people in defense of the racist settler, Zionist and Moses be not criminal?

Talk is cheap when you arm racist regimes

Canada taking a stand against Israeli atrocities is long overdue.  It is appalling that accused war criminal Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s sense of history lands Canada on the wrong side of the street.  Canadians want no part in annihilating anyone. Canadians will not stand for municipal laws that muzzle their right to protest anywhere from coast to coast to coast.  Toronto will regret getting up on the stage of international morality by taking sides with a homicidal Israeli government.  At the United Nations nations involved in arming Israel usually give half-hearted speeches of outrage when Israel violates international law and human decency.  What people expect from their governments is truth and justice. Governments need to stop supporting Israeli propaganda and label Israel’s unfaithfulness to simple humanity as unfaithfulness. Religious institutions need to start treating Jewish lies and fables about God and the land of Canaan as lies and fables.  Israel could not be trusted with an ark that kills people. A Levitical temple that houses God’s effective presence (often stylized as Shekinah) is of no consequence.  Holy days, weeks, months and years are tokens of poverty.  So carry on, do not believe your eyes, that the state of Israel is a racist and spiritually bankrupt barely functional democracy.  The days of thumbing one’s nose at international law and idolizing family ties are swiftly coming to an end.  The price will be unprecedentedly high. To Israel and all her siblings we say, “End the occupation and give Abraham some respect”.