Posted on 10/12/2023 6:46:11 AM PDT by SJackson
In a similar manner:
Why are Americans getting their panties in a wad over a few beheaded babies?
After all; we seem to be alright with allowing serial killers to suck the brains out of babies that aren't quite born yet.
If Joshua (chapters 8-9) had gotten rid of the Gibeonites...
Go back to the beginning. Abraham. God promised Abraham and Sarah a son. Time passed.. They grew old and no son. Abraham and Sarah agreed to try the handmaid.. A son was born, Ishmael.
God again came to Abraham on the son.. Ishmael not the son God promised.. In old age Sarah had Isaac.. The son God had said would be born.
Isaac is called the promised one. The one God used.. Follow Isaac through the old testament.. They were given land to expand a family.. An example for what God had planned for generations.
The Jews are Isaac’s people... They suffered much in their journey.. They missed some of God’s plans.. They wanted a king. They tried to pick one thru the years.. God had a king for them.. For all.. Jesus came.. The long awaited King. He didn’t fit their idea of a king.
Jesus was born in Jerusalem in a manger.. Not the making of a king in their minds. His father was not royal.. He was a carpenter.
The high priests did not accept Jesus.. The Man who healed and taught... People followed Jesus.. The hierarchy... God forgive them.. They crucified their King. Jesus had prayed, lamenting the good promised them.. Oh Jerusalem.. I wanted to do much and you would not have Me.
They have suffered much.. Yet today..
Ishmael was not forsaken.. But he was not the one in God’s plan.
This is misunderstood.. Chosen did not mean favored. It meant example.. We all are favored if we accept Jesus.
Hate is the destroyer of good.
That is correct, it's not about land, it's global domination by Islam. Israel is merely a speed bump......
Many people have forgotten the Armenian genocide and the Syrian death marches during WW-1 as well as the Munich Olympics in 1972.
It’s all about growing oranges and the like.
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“Native Americans in the United States can speak to the equity of the “two state solution”. Once side gets the good land . The other side gets the bad land the side with the good land does’t want. The result is perpetual poverty for the side with the bad land.”
Maybe that was true 100 years ago, but not today, at least with the tribes in the Pacific Northwest. Additionally since the government allowed the tribes to take over 50% of the annual fisheries, (Boldt Decision, tribes can now arrive by boat under armed guard and harvest what THEY determine to be half of the inventory on non-tribal beaches and the fish in rivers) and established Money Trees, (casinos), the tribes are doing quite nicely.
Speaking about the land, because of the way the US Bureau of Indian Affairs set up the socialist reservation system, the tribal members could care less about maintaining it. Even now, drive through a reservation and you’ll see filth and debris everywhere because they have no respect, or skin in the game.
I thought as the tribes got richer and became more integrated into the American enterprise system, which they are doing quite remarkably here in the PNW, I had hoped they would start cleaning up their reservations and show pride in ownership, that is slow to manifest because they are basically renters from the Feds.
One reason holding them back us how they distribute their land. Since the tribes are flush with gaming dollars many tribes have been on a land buying spree for the past 20 years or so here. When a non tribal parcel is purchased, fee land, because the owner pays taxes that funds the community needs, the tribes apply to have the land absorbed into the trust land, think reservation, and after a 5 year waiting period during which the tribes pay the taxes, the fee land get transferred into a trust designation ending any taxation the community receives.
This allows the tribes in theory to grow their reservations but once again, who holds the deed to the newly acquired land? The Feds. Meanwhile, the school system, roads, hospitals and every other entity that relies on taxes for funding loses revenue yet the tribes use the same schools, highways and drive on the same roads for free.
It seems to me the tribes have a good deal, but it’s completely different than what is going on in the Middle East.
Some tribes today have a good deal. One hundred years ago they all had a rotten deal.
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That’s what I said. First or second sentence.
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