Aside from the metaphors, I’m amazed at what the Jewish people of Israel have done with the land. While others were running things, it was a rocky desert. The Jewish people transformed it into a blossoming garden. They removed the rocks and infertile soil, fertilized it and planted many trees, farms and gardens. They invented new methods of creating clean water because of a lack of water supplies, and now are self-sufficient with water to the point of being able to export it. Meanwhile, the Arabs need to import foreign workers and western tech in order to get anything done, and cannot create anything on their own.
As my brother-in-law says, “Nothing of any importance was ever invented in hot climates”
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“Arabs” are not the problem, Edom is.
Edom has been Jacob’s thorn in the flesh since the day that Jacob got the blessing that Esau disrespected.
This will get much worse this year due to the Jubilee, which will cause more of Israel’s land to be returned at Yom Kippur.
It will probably be full nuclear.
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I lived in Israel in 1978-79. Our Kibbutz used dripper technology in the fields so that we could plant crops in sand. Water with chemicals were pumped into hoses which ran through the fields. Each hose was cut and a dripper was spliced into the hose. The dripper allowed a certain amount of water to drip onto the plant, minimizing evaporation. Before we started planting, we sterilized the sand by placing plastic wrap over the field.
I never saw so many peppers, onions and melons grown like this.