(ThyBlackMan.com) Jews and Arabs have been violently disputing over Middle East territory including Judea and Samaria for more than a century under the Ottoman Empire, the British mandate, in the Arab-Israeli War of 1948, 1956 Suez Crisis, 1967 Six-Day War, Yom Kippur War, the First and Second Intifadas, and the current grisly war between Hamas and Israel. The conclusion of one conflict is simply an intermission before a new conflict is born over irreconcilable religious convictions and territorial claims.
According to Nahum Goldmann in his book “The Jewish Paradox,” Israel’s first Prime Minister David Ben Gurion explained the dynamics that have found expression in chronic upheavals in Palestine as follows:
“If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true, God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?”
There is an escape from the dilemma voiced by Ben Gurion. But it requires a revolution in understanding.
First, every national boundary in history has been drawn by the sword. Justice or morality are helpless spectators. Might makes right. The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. Borders change intermittently through war or the threat of war. Examine the Earth under a microscope. There are no national borders to be seen except those that have emerged from the barrel of a gun.
No border is sacred. All borders are artificial. They are presumptively honored to diminish the likelihood of conflict, but the presumption is dishonored whenever the aggressor believes the potential benefits of conquest or annexation exceed the risk of international ostracism or losing a war.
If Jews and Arabs are ever to cease fighting over Palestine, both must renounce the counterfactual, counter-historical conviction that God or God’s prophet gave one or the other territory for them to exclusively occupy and rule. To make God the final arbiter of all national boundary disputes is to regress the species into a Hobbesian state of nature earmarked by a war of all against all and by lives that are poor, brutish, nasty, and short. Every individual could proclaim a right to rule the word conferred through surreptitious communications from God and begin slaughtering opponents accordingly.
Second, there are no chosen people or master races who command a superior position in the human hierarchy. There are no good guys versus bad guys. There are only bad guys equally eager and willing to kill and slaughter at the first opportunity. Thus do the oppressed effortlessly segue to become oppressors when the option arises. The DNA of the species is the same irrespective of race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, gender, or otherwise. The DNA dictates that hormonal gratifications, not the cerebral faculties, will inform the human narrative—including a lust for power, money, sex, celebrity, creature comforts, and self-righteousness.
In sum, no tribe or group is superior to any other. They all occupy the same level of human depravity or sordidness.
With consensus on these two philosophical starting points, there is a pathway to stable peace in the territory demarcated by Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. Israel and the Palestinian Authority each appoint an arbitrator to demarcate the boundaries of Israel and a Palestinian state. The two will then jointly choose a third arbitrator to prevent deadlock. The Palestinian Authority must agree in advance on a constitution for a Palestinian state that prohibits armed forces (as in Costa Rica), and the use or threat of force in international relations (as in Article 9 of Japan’s Constitution). Moreover, the United States should be authorized to intervene militarily in the Palestinian state if its constitutional order came under attack.
Redrawing boundaries may displace hundreds of thousands, but it is a cure superior to the disease. Greece and Turkey exchanged 1.6 million nationals after World War I in 1923 to diminish the likelihood of renewed conflict. Ditto for Pakistan and India in 1947 following British partition. Twelve million Germans were expelled from European countries after the defeat of Hitler in World War II.
These ideas are orders of magnitude outside of mainstream thinking. But the latter has brought nothing but war and misery to the Middle East for two centuries. To stick with mainstream thinking is to guarantee an unending succession of Israeli-Palestinian conflicts.
Written by Armstrong Williams
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African Americans Should Not Fight and Die for a Democratic Party and Republican Party Created Autocratic Government America:
Matthew 2:2
“Saying, where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.”
King James Version of the Holy Bible (KJV)
Matthew 2:2 ( Matthew 2nd Chapter,2nd Verse) Context:
Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, SAYING Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born. And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet. Jerusalem was then a client government of the Roman occupying forces. Jerusalem is now a client government of the United States of America.
There are many holds other men can have on the minds of our leaders. Some holds are physically achieved with chains, leg irons, and handcuffs, and other holds are with theological indoctrinating ideas. The nation of Israel has a great theological hold over the ethical, and moral thoughts of many American citizens by virtue of the Christian interpretations of the King James Version of the Holy Bible. I do not want Israel to call for the spilling of the precious blood of American youth enlisted in our military branches. We should say ” no ” to fighting Israel’s wars because Israel has had more than enough time to make peace with its Muslim neighbors if it is indeed ” peace ” that they are seeking.African American men and women in the military should legally resist fighting for an America where over seventy-four million citizens voted for the political nihilist autocracy proposing western European colonial idealized existential, nihilist, white supremacy, white privilege Donald John Trump whose political ideologies still pollute the minds of republicans today.
Seventy-four million voters under the auspices of seeking existential freedoms, chiefly freedom from governmental regulations, wanted to trash the U.S. Constitution in favor of the republican party. Trump’s proposed autocracy seeks to enhance and magnify white privilege, and white supremacy globally. “There isn’t a dime worth of difference “between the political philosophies of Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and Donald John Trump. All three leaders advocate nihilistic, autocracies that lean towards dictatorships. As a member of NATO, America has a multiracial, eclectic developing democratic identity of its own separate and apart from those of eastern and western Europe.
We must study, learn, and uphold the positive cohesive attributes associated with being a true American. America is not like any other country on earth thanks to our politically flexible, organizing document named the” U.S. Constitution.” America has its own magnificent identity. The roots of a strong America are not all planted in Europe where global colonization was born. America should refine its own democracy to embrace all of its citizens. It is time for America to reify its own commitments to its own citizens when it comes to the African Americans by clearly showing that African Americans will, and shall enjoy full benefit of equal protection under the law if America wants to call for the shedding of African American blood in defense of outdated eastern and western European colonization political ideologies such as those being enforced at the point of a gun together with the destructive forces of rockets and bombs in Israel and Gaza at this very moment.