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Global Issues - Israel and Palestine Israel does exist, and we decry all attempts to terrorize its civilians with useless and counter-productive attacks. However, a peaceful world of international civil law can never exist while some people are denied citizenship in any country. Everyone has a right to form governments so they do not live in a brutal state of nature, and so do Palestinians. Israel must accept the existence of a Palestinian state, and must work to provide a level of civil equality for them. President Clinton accomplished marvelous results in the Israeli-Palestine conflict before the end of his term, and the first thing G.W. Bush did was to withdraw Clinton's special envoy and adopt a hard-line stance. This action sabotaged efforts for peace and destabilized the region, led to further conflict and let the violent Hamas group step into the power vacuum. We must return to the diplomatic table in Clinton's spirit of reconciliation, to build a Middle-East world in which Israelis and Palestinians are able to peacefully co-exist. Subscribe to Posts [Atom]
Friday, June 1, 2007
8:42 PM
Maybe Hitler didn't get his coffee one morning and went ape over it. The fact is, that for however loud people like Achmedinibaba and the latest Nazi punks are, there are ten thousand times as many people in those "ethnic groups" who will gladly stand together for themselves, each other, and everyone "in between" these artificial, divisive, and constructed racial lines.
From the perspective of science and evolution, racism makes no sense. A physical body is an amalgum of tens, if not hundreds of thousands of genetic traits, and most are not visible. It is a waste of brainpower to subdivide the world over the few of those that present bone structure and skin pigment. Hitler wanted to know how to create a "master race," but that is impossible... it does not make sense in the book of life.
From the perspective of religion, racism makes no sense. When we quiet the voice of the deceiver, if the voice of God does speak to us, then we know from what it says, and from what some of every tribe and nation have said, and are punished for even today — that the world can someday live at peace, if we all make the choice to live together.
you cry "peace, peace" when there is no peace
Suppose Arabs and Jews realized they had always been one people, and voted democratically, we could imagine a middle east to which all the Jews in the world were free to move there if they chose to, and all people are free to worship as they chose. Why should we kill? Perhaps in this world, world war II had been resolved by a contest of which English or Bavarian could bake the better pastry. Yum, yummy pastry.Maybe Hitler didn't get his coffee one morning and went ape over it. The fact is, that for however loud people like Achmedinibaba and the latest Nazi punks are, there are ten thousand times as many people in those "ethnic groups" who will gladly stand together for themselves, each other, and everyone "in between" these artificial, divisive, and constructed racial lines.
From the perspective of science and evolution, racism makes no sense. A physical body is an amalgum of tens, if not hundreds of thousands of genetic traits, and most are not visible. It is a waste of brainpower to subdivide the world over the few of those that present bone structure and skin pigment. Hitler wanted to know how to create a "master race," but that is impossible... it does not make sense in the book of life.
From the perspective of religion, racism makes no sense. When we quiet the voice of the deceiver, if the voice of God does speak to us, then we know from what it says, and from what some of every tribe and nation have said, and are punished for even today — that the world can someday live at peace, if we all make the choice to live together.
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