Posted on 08/18/2005 7:49:51 AM PDT by gdzla
Just a random thought. With all that goes on over there nothing would surprise me.
Wow WAS just thinking the same thing, how horrible this all is for no gains, Hamas is still going after the Israelis, big time, this will never end, shame, shame, and "woe be to you that hurt my people", quoting from GOD
Revisionists now
seem to have picked Masada
for their re-writing . . .
The Masada Myth, Scholar presents evidence that the heroes of the Jewish Great Revolt were not heroes at all, By Nachman Ben-Yehuda, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
No, not Masada.
At Masada, the defenders spent the better part of a year killing their attackers, and then almost all of them killed themselves rather than be taken.
Obviously neither of those things are happening in Gaza.
All that is really happening is that Israel is shortening its lines of defense, which will make it easier to defend the remainder against the relentless assaults of the Palestinians, which will certainly continue.
Can't help but thinking that Israel is making a BIGTIME mistake in booting out it's people from Gaza. Palestinians under Hamas will trash Gaza, turn it into a slum and gain another slice of land to launch terror attacks. Why give land to your enemy? Should the US give back Guantanamo Bay to Cuba? Nay, I say nay.
It certainly is. ;-)
Understanding that a "Jew" is a practitioner of Judaism, which is a religion, and that "Hebrew" is a race, and that any gentile may become a jew at will and adhere to that religion, and that any Hebrew may worship false gods and not be Jewish, for example Joseph I. Lieberman who ran for POTUS in 2000 is Jewish by his faith but he is not genetically Hebrew, my question then is,
When God made his "hurt my people" comment in the OT was God talking about:
Hebrew Jews only?
Followers of Judaism "Jews" whether Hebrew or Gentile?
Hebrew genetic descendants of Abraham whether Jewish or not?
Or even, as some believe, is God's "people" inclusive of Christians today?
Or further, hearing the mantra of, "we are all God's children", so are we all God's People?
To whom exactly did the statement apply at that time? To whom exactly does the statement apply now? Has the object changed?
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