When the Hamas attacks on Israelis living and partying along the Gaza envelope were streamed all over the world on and after 7 October 2023, a conflict that had always hovered in the periphery of my consciousness crashed into my field of focus.
Looks like a great series, however I have been following Israel for many years, and I really can't believe any so called news about what is happening. There is enough sorrow without going into this quagmire for hours on end.
In all the wars however I don't really see Israel turning to God. They are a secular nation with a terrible persecuted past, but they won't be at peace until they are at peace with God, which doesn't seem to be now or in the near future.
It does seem to be a spiritual principle that alignment with (or surrender to) Love, which we also call God, is the path to peace. But as Cooper keeps asking, would you be able to do that if your family was collateral damage in any of these campaigns, on either side? I hope I would get there in the end, and that my leadership would too. But it would be hard.
Putting ourselves in other peoples situations is fraught at the best of times, even with close friends, let along people on the other side of the world, in a different culture, language, history etc.
I don't think we can judge what we would do in their situation, fortunately we are not, as Jesus said "sufficient unto the day is the trouble thereof"!
Great article again Rebekah. Despite my innate sympathies to Israel, I recognise they are as infiltrated and controlled by Globalist agendas as any nation is, so I consciously try not to take sides...which is exactly the response the Globalist elite want...they want us to take sides. The theatre we are being presented is another proxy war, like all the other bankers war, for their Globalist agenda. There are no pathways to peace or resolution without exposing the real puppet-masters, who simply move on to their next target of conflict and begin the theatre of offense all over again. Above the Globalist level are "Spiritual Forces of Darkness"...that is where the real battle must be fought.
Well Rebekah, so pleased you are a Kurt Vonnegut fan. While he’s not political (usually) in his writing, he did go there in “A Man Without a Country”. But the Israeli/ Palestine conflict, like the Irish troubles, is long standing and quite beyond my current energy levels to delve into. I’m binge watching….the latest being ‘Spooks’ and what surprises me is how often this issue has come throughout the 10 seasons. I must have been oblivious for much of the time, given that it began to air in around 2004. But yes, quite heartbreaking to see the levels of barbarity and cruelty that is taking place in that region. Gaza in now apparently unliveable. Humans seem hell bent on self destructing. Will it change? I very much doubt it.
I love A Man Without a Country - it really moved me in parts. There's this line, I can't remember it exactly right but he says something like, 'it's too early to tell if this is a good thing, or a bad thing.' I think about that a lot in how I respond to events in my own life. Spooks - I have not seen. I understand not having the energy. Actually that's one thing I liked about this podcast though... I listened to it over about a month on car trips, cooking etc, so I felt it was a bit more doable than say reading a book series.
Thanks Rebekah.
Here is another one that doesn't get much media attention - https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2023/10/the-persecution-of-armenian-christians-is-not-just-a-religious-freedom-issue
IMO the plight of the world is due to a spiritual battle, and we can only try to keep awakening the world to what mainstream media won't cover.
So keep up your great efforts, you certainly have your work cut out for you, as the battlefield is expansive.
Mark.
Thanks Mark I’ll check this out!
Thanks Rebekah
Looks like a great series, however I have been following Israel for many years, and I really can't believe any so called news about what is happening. There is enough sorrow without going into this quagmire for hours on end.
In all the wars however I don't really see Israel turning to God. They are a secular nation with a terrible persecuted past, but they won't be at peace until they are at peace with God, which doesn't seem to be now or in the near future.
It does seem to be a spiritual principle that alignment with (or surrender to) Love, which we also call God, is the path to peace. But as Cooper keeps asking, would you be able to do that if your family was collateral damage in any of these campaigns, on either side? I hope I would get there in the end, and that my leadership would too. But it would be hard.
Putting ourselves in other peoples situations is fraught at the best of times, even with close friends, let along people on the other side of the world, in a different culture, language, history etc.
I don't think we can judge what we would do in their situation, fortunately we are not, as Jesus said "sufficient unto the day is the trouble thereof"!
Great article again Rebekah. Despite my innate sympathies to Israel, I recognise they are as infiltrated and controlled by Globalist agendas as any nation is, so I consciously try not to take sides...which is exactly the response the Globalist elite want...they want us to take sides. The theatre we are being presented is another proxy war, like all the other bankers war, for their Globalist agenda. There are no pathways to peace or resolution without exposing the real puppet-masters, who simply move on to their next target of conflict and begin the theatre of offense all over again. Above the Globalist level are "Spiritual Forces of Darkness"...that is where the real battle must be fought.
Yes and the innocent bystanders/citizens are always the biggest losers in these games.
Hi Rebekah
I think here are a few visceral ways of getting someone’s attention and causing a predictable? reaction.
Among them:
Tell them their food is poisonous - get organic, vegan, and various other food fetish responses.
Tell them God’s gonna getcha when you die - get religion (many to choose from).
Tell them the climate is going to kill them - get climate science-itis.
Tell them you are going to wipe their country, kith and kin from the face of the earth - get Israel.
I am not making fun of 1-3, many of us are deeply affected by these, even to crusader status.
But to deal with number 4, that is a serious, never ending business.
Well Rebekah, so pleased you are a Kurt Vonnegut fan. While he’s not political (usually) in his writing, he did go there in “A Man Without a Country”. But the Israeli/ Palestine conflict, like the Irish troubles, is long standing and quite beyond my current energy levels to delve into. I’m binge watching….the latest being ‘Spooks’ and what surprises me is how often this issue has come throughout the 10 seasons. I must have been oblivious for much of the time, given that it began to air in around 2004. But yes, quite heartbreaking to see the levels of barbarity and cruelty that is taking place in that region. Gaza in now apparently unliveable. Humans seem hell bent on self destructing. Will it change? I very much doubt it.
I love A Man Without a Country - it really moved me in parts. There's this line, I can't remember it exactly right but he says something like, 'it's too early to tell if this is a good thing, or a bad thing.' I think about that a lot in how I respond to events in my own life. Spooks - I have not seen. I understand not having the energy. Actually that's one thing I liked about this podcast though... I listened to it over about a month on car trips, cooking etc, so I felt it was a bit more doable than say reading a book series.