This article has been in the fallows of gestation. It has taken a while for me to finally become ready and able to piece this together since the subject-matter has weighed very heavily upon my heart since the war began. As such it was not written all in one hit. It was “pieced together” from bits and indeed sudden “bursts” of reactivity from deep within my soul. And there have been those times too, where the task of writing this was “just left aside”, and that simply because it was way too hard to write, too painful to even think on. Even now my heart aches while writing this. There is no escaping the constant gnawing of interior angst and unease that thinking about this topic automatically produces. To think that it took me almost the length and breadth of that entire war to write this and get it out there is almost unthinkable. Where was I the whole time? How is it that I was unable to air my heartfelt solidarity much sooner and in a somewhat timelier fashion? To these questions there are no easy answers. Part of it has to do with the sheer futility and madness of war and how this can send those like me who struggle with dealing with the insatiability of their own heartache into the quogmires of despair. The other part is the fact that because the issue is a very personal one because of its intrinsic relationship to my faith and culture background. But it needs to be accepted and stated, brought out of the darkness and into the light, that this is how it is. For the tumult of such feelings within let me know that my humanity to some degree is still alive and active and for all the subtle, cunning wiles and plans of the enemy of our souls who is called Satan, the Devil, the Deceiver, to silence me on the inner as well as outer by means of various plots and schemas he has designed and implemented through the manipulation of my life-circumstances, I am nonetheless determined to end his reign and so discern and live out God’s own calling as best as I possibly can.

And believe me, this article is polemical – it is essentially a polemic against the dire situation of conflict in the Holy Land. Also, to be lyrical, I have called it a polemic and more so in jest than to be literalistically finicky about terminological usage, as it represents a cry from my heart, indeed, a stupendous lamentation for Palestine. And to be frank, this article will ramble, this article does indeed ramble. But all for good reason and clear-sighted purpose. To let it be known that the Land we know and love as “the Holy Land” must be commended over to God’s unwavering care. For this place of Our Lord’s earthly sojourn has been plunged into the throes of a darkness not seen for quite a long time, and a length of time at that, that stretches into hundreds of years. And besides, a great proportion of humanity, as well-meaning as they are, just does not know how to apprehend the multifaceted, multilayered socio-political, culturo-religious and historical complexity of the land famously and affectionately known throughout the ages by people of every race, creed, tribe, and tongue, as Palestine. I’ll also credit beloved Archbishop Fulton Sheen with inspiring me on this note, God bless him!

Our modern era has seen the proliferation of many an ad hoc wrangle on the international political scene and perhaps there is none more stealthily insideous than that being wrangled currently over the small but socio-culturally significant and pivotal geopolitical-region on the Eastern Mediterranean seaboard called Palestine. The area traditionally earns its name from its historical association during the period of Classical antiquity with Phonecian traders (also known as the Philistines) who hailed from Cyprus and other areas of the Greek empire and so the region was cartographically named Philistia ~ Palestine by the Greeks and the Romans in reflection of it being a vital politico-economic outpost. These merchant emmigrès from Cyprus and other parts of the Greco-Roman empire settled the area just prior to the arrival of the nomadic Israelite tribes around 4000-3000BC.¹

And, therefore, in view of this then, the name Palestine should not be contentious as it has stuck as a universal generic place-marker for that region of the Middle East for hundreds and thousands of years right up until 1948, when a bungled series of political decisions on the part of an shonky alliance between some U.S. politicians and a mixed hot-bed of idiosyncratic seperatist interests stemming from a partisanal group of Jewish refugees from Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War took the reins of national decision-making power by storm. The whole thing became one of the greatest undiplomatic, not to mention undemocratic fiascos in the modern era. These seperatist interests failed to dialogue with other localized interests of the time and were dead-set against forming political allegiances based upon the principles of round-table dialogue which thematically ought to include the interests of all culturo-religious and political affiliations. And the decisions surrounding this fiasco were deadlocked into vouching solely for the seperatists’ own interests as they desired to form an “Israeli State” at the exclusion of the interests of all other groups and one instead promoted and based predominantly on the warped ideology and spiritual outlook of a small sect of Jewish extremists in collaboration with U.S. military and economic backing. Because this seperatist state is inherently selfish in its constituentcy in that it serves its own interests first and foremost and above and beyond those of all others, there have been countless wars over the decades since its inception and this latest horror-scale conflict is perhaps the worst the region has seen for centuries.

I am writing this polemic as a call-out to the whole world to resist the temptation to side with war, with its language, politics, ideology, and mythologizing. For it is all deception. The belief that military conflict can solve national and international problems is a fallacy. It is a lie and is one of the most insideous and popular lies the Devil, in all his guile and cunning, uses to deceive the nations. Jesus Himself warned “those who live by the sword will die by the sword” and this is no less true today than it was 2000 years earlier when Our Lord walked the earth. St Paul in his letter to the Ephesians states that we are in a spiritual battle by the very fact of our existence. We are pitted against the forces of wickedness in the heavenly realms and the very fact we exist means we need to “fight the good fight”. That said, our battle is not one of flesh and blood and therefore ought not to be one where we compromise the temporal and spiritual wellbeing of others just so we can be victorious in our battle against sin and death. It is a spiritual battle and therefore we are fighting from within our souls those powers and principalities that seek to enslave and by that means, devour and destroy us. We are not called to exercise this battle in a crude fleshly way or engage in it using our physicality as a weapon against the peaceful coexistence of others. And so our weapons are not carnal and we need to set our hearts rather on being instruments of God’s love in our world – to bring hope and healing to a broken world. This is why Jesus speaks of our unique calling in this area as peace-makers. He speaks about this in the Sermon on the Mount and exhorts us to follow Him in living our lives as peace-makers who conscientiously strive to build the Kingdom of God here on earth.

Hence the call to build bridges of trust is antithetical to waging war. I mentioned in another article I wrote recently about how Jesus’ own atoning sacrifice on Calvary was the Bridge by which we cross over from death – (our old self) to life – (our new self, our redeemed humanity). Well, when Jesus asks us to take up our cross and follow Him by doing as He did, this is what He means. He took up His cross – built a Bridge for our salvation. We too are to do likewise by building bridges of trust between ourselves and others – being models of inter-personal edification and empathy instead of naysayers and cynics that deliberately sow enmity and lack the capacity to say with sincerity and love from the heart “I’m sorry” when another lets us know we have hurt their feelings by either our unwillingness to communicate or the arrogance of our blunt reproachfulness. There is no victory in being sour, dower, puffed-up “I’ve got-it-all-together” high-flying show-stoppers who look down on those who struggle just to make it through the day. It doesn’t matter whether you are in a so-called public or official position of authority or not. Be it in the Church or out there in the world. God will NOT be mocked! And He has sent us messengers time and time and time again to try and help us re-orient ourselves along the right path: that of peace-making and reconciliation. But for the most part, these calls have gone largely unheeded.

Yes, I am writing this from a Christian standpoint as that is my own faith-culture tradition. But the same call for peace-making is a profoundly universal one and unites all of us in our common humanity and as co-sharers in the beauty of the created world, which God in His omnipotent love and mercy has bestowed upon us. Such a univseral reality of the call to be peace-makers unites all people, faiths and cultures of life and good-will in unity with creation’s cry for restoration and so we would be foolish to ignore this call. It has to be said that I am vehemently anti-war, always have been and always will be. My own Jewish ancestors on my mother’s mother’s side of the family fled Germany in the era of the Kaisars and Tsars “because of all the wars”. That was before the Holocaust. Had they stayed, I would probably not exist.

I will maintain that the Jewish people had a Right of Return to the ancestral lands of Palestine following the conclusion of the Second World War but it’s tantamount to tragic that many of their-then so-called reps sadly abused this right. All these children of Israel were refugees themselves, escaping from the terror of Nazi domination in Europe. They fled the horrors of war only to give their newly found freedom over to the dictates of a few puny men, a few new hysterical fühers – and by this relinquishment of their own freedom – started another war themselves – back in the old country! And after that one was over, another one, and after that was over, another one and so on the story goes! Now, this whole thing is a mess, confusion reigns supreme amongst the media, amongst people who are taking one side or another everywhere, and even amongst people who are rightly trying to posit legitmate-sounding solutions to these problems.

As it stands, the “State of Israel” does not represent Jews worldwide! Rather, it is an absolute disgrace to the sacred name of the Jewish people!! To think that the Jewish population suffered terribly all because of a last century war and now they are suffering terribly again along with those Gentiles who are suffering even more on account of a war raging this century started by some who claim to represent the Jewish people, is nothing but an atrocity of unthinkable proportions that we are going to take decades if not centuries to heal from. The quickest way to heal the damage is for all Jewish people of good-will to stand up against the tyranny of a State that although claims to represent them, DOES NOT in fact represent them at all but does nothing but smear the good name of all people of Jewish heritage worldwide through the bombast of its tyrade of terror against Gaza. And so, I cannot agree with this evil militaristic way of completely and utterly demolishing the lives of others. To disregard these precious lives as ‘worthless, insignificant and meaningless’ in such a manner that boasts a vile extravagance of mistreatment, desolation, dismemberment, and carnage is a complete and utter violation of God’s Holy Law. There are absolutely no legitimate moral grounds upon which any kind of endorsement for this kind of behaviour on the part of the Israeli State can rest. These insolent political tyrants have ordered the mass destruction of thousands upon thousands who are not even military. And they just go in there and bulldoze entire areas after they have ruthlessly and mercilessly bombarded them with airstrikes. These people who orchestrated and unleashed such an unthinkable tragedy are guilty of breaking the entire Law of God countless times over and they are still unrepentant! Not only are they unrepentant but they shamelessly believe that what they are doing is ‘righteous’. Therefore, it figures that the intercession of St Paul, (who btw, was once as Saul of Tarsus, very much driven to great lengths of acting in a similarly vile manner but only as one person, and albeit in a time long before the advent of modern warfare and all the evil sophistries that accompany it), he no doubt will be most efficacious here. It dawned on me that this is the case because the exact same evil spirit which drove St Paul prior to his conversion to do such henious things ‘in the Name of God Most High’, is acting with full force and a ferocity so filled with vengance upon the minds and hearts of those men of power inside the Israeli State’s political domain. And the precise reason why St Paul self-referenced himself to be “the chief of sinners” is because, after his conversion, he saw that as a Jew, he ought to have known better than to break every single Commandment in the Book of God’s Holy Law. The Romans, although zealous tyrants when it came to the way they completely destroyed Jerusalem in 70AD, could not, according to St Paul, be held half as responsible for their crimes due to the fact they were pagans and didn’t have the Light of Revelation as the Chosen People of God had. Therefore, St Paul considered himself far more accountable precisely because as a Jew, he should have known better how to practice the Law of Love. Therefore, he named himself “the chief of sinners”² in respect of this foregone conclusion prior to his conversion although erstwhile following, he recognized that due to the fallen nature, ALL humans have sinned and consequently fallen short of the Glory of God, and as such there is none righteous in God’s sight, not one.

Again, I say frankly, 1948 was a DISASTER! It should never have happened. Just like I said above regarding the Ashkenazi refugees from Europe, they should not have been allowed to start another war “back on ancient home turf” when they were fleeing from an already infernal disaster that swallowed Europe. Absolutely ABSURD! Why didn’t these people just come to the bargaining table with everyone else who was already living there just prior to their return? There were heaps of people from every faith background who rightfully needed to be consulted before anything else was done, including those who shared the same religious orientations as their Ashkenazi brothers and sisters. Unfortunately that didn’t happen, which is why you have this turmoil engulfing the whole place right now. And over the years since the grossly undiplomatic disaster of 1948, you have alot of confusion sown, alot of artificial political boundaries drawn up due to this confusion. Even most of those protesting the war in support of a free and independant Palestine do not truly understand the entire breadth and depth of what “a free and independant Palestine” should look like. It is my hope that by reading this article, you will come to appreciate on a much more profound level, the different layers of inter-cultural and inter-religious dialogue that needs to be stridently and clearly articulated in a mutually agreeable political context of openness and trust. For without that, lasting peace in the region cannot be a reality.

One of the major things that I am challenging here is the unfair and undemocratic monopolization of state power by only one brand or faction of politics stemming from an extremist Zionistic position. It’s one thing to be someone of Jewish heritage who desires to see the Jewish community in the Holy Land take up their rightful place as the traditional spiritual custodians of the tribal lands throughout the region in a similar way to how the aboriginals in Australia or Canada do but it’s another thing altogether for certain members of this same community to approach the culturo-political realm with an extremist stance, thereby attempting to monopolize governance of the whole region from a dictatorial position of militaristic state control which effectively cancels out the legitimate voices of all the other non-Jewish communities living there alongside those Jewish ones opposed to the dictatorship. Now, that’s where the rubber hits the road here. Ideally Israel needs to have humility as traditional custodians and take their hands off monopolizing the state affairs of Palestine proper (read: the modern state of Israel and new Palestine authority states combined as one unified state) and instead they need to be prepared to proactively share state power equally with every other community “from the river to the sea” so that there is not one community only who orchestrates the coordination of state power but instead this power needs to be equally distributed amongst ALL  communities so that each one may coexist with every other one in a harmonious balance of shared power.

One of the most absurd things about this whole modern fiasco centering on Palestine is the confusing way some of the United Nations educational material approaches these issues. I got a shock when I read the following:

During the period of the Mandate, the Zionist Organization worked to secure the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine. The indigenous people of Palestine, whose forefathers had inhabited the land for virtually the two preceding millennia felt this design to be a violation of their natural and inalienable rights. They also viewed it as an infringement of assurances of independence given by the Allied Powers to Arab leaders in return for their support during the war. The result was mounting resistance to the Mandate by Palestinian Arabs, followed by resort to violence by the Jewish community as the Second World War drew to a close.” ³

This is incorrect in that it fails to recognize that the Jewish people ARE the indigenous people of that area irrespective of whether 80% of the population fled as refugees to North Central & Eastern Europe after the Roman Empire crushed rebellion after rebellion leading to the sack of Jerusalem in 70ad. And the truth remains that the population who stayed behind during that tumultuous time was comprised of Jewish natives as well as gentiles and this remained that way for centuries afterward right up into the modern era. Furthermore, there were many intervals throughout the last two millenia where Jews from the European diaspora returned to the old country for various reasons, some of which included escaping racial and religious persecution in Europe as well as the simple desire to make pilgrimage back to the lands of their ancestors and so some of these people decided to settle back there again. Records of this you will find in many tales of Jewish traditional and popular literature over the centuries and a great many of these legendary tales are of course taken from personal memoirs and travel diaries of pilgrims, merchants, scholars, that sort of thing, and are therefore based on fact. It should come as no surprise then that there was an equally vibrant Jewish community still extant in Palestine during the period of the Mandate. Centuries of diasporic wanderings on the part of a great many Jews does not negate the fact that (1.) the Jews are the traditional custodians of the various regions of Palestine and (2.) the Jewish community always maintained some kind of spiritual and cultural relationship to these ancestral lands right throughout the last two millenia irrespective of the fact that during 70ad, around 80% of the Jewish population were exiled.

Therefore, it is clear that the paragraph cited above  (from the United Nations educational database) fails to take into consideration these points and treats the whole subject matter as though the Palestinian Jewish community during the time of the British Mandate did not exist! The truth of the matter is there were many periods when people of all cultures and faith traditions (Jews included) in the Holy Land lived coexistentially well together just like the greatly esteemed and somewhat legendary accounts of life in Spain during the Convivencia.⁴ Why then, I have to ask, does not the UN take serious note of these facts in its background preamble on the Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem?…facts at that btw, I have taken great care to annotate here. Strangely, it appears that the UN is claiming, and rather contradictorily at that, to support the doing of the inverse of what the British government had done when the latter failed to address the needs of ALL Palestinian communities and instead only gave heed to the desires of one faction in one community. But I think the UN’s problem is that it is only mimicking the position of radical feminists in response to misogyny rather than vouching for the mutual interests of ALL parties concerned.

The other thing is, there ought to have been a tripartite governance agreement prior to 1948 between the three faith traditions in order to see to it that Palestine’s governance be subject to a permanent accord between political representatives of these three faith and culture communities with an internationalist emphasis like that which governs the cultural capital Jerusalem. And as a precautionary measure, this model of governance would ideally be observed and supported from a distance by the Commonwealth just like Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore are. My burning question right here is why did this not happen? Actually, it’s a downright tragedy that it didn’t happen. This tripartite governance model would have fitted in perfectly with ensuring the interests of all communities were attended to with appreciation, vigour, and dedication. Why insist that instead it become subject to the governing exclusivity of only one party be it either Jews OR  Muslims and Christians? And neither does it belong exclusively to only Jews or only Arabs. It has always been a shared space throughout the centuries and even in the time of Israel’s tribal sovreignty.

Therefore, this whole war is an absolute travesty. The official governmental line of the State of Israel keeps likening in some way or another, all faithful people of other religions in the Holy Land to ‘Nazis’ and this is about as low as pits of Hell if you ask me! This war is none other than disgraceful sectarian violence and as a faith-filled Catholic with Jewish heritage on my mother’s maternal side, I am downright disgusted at the blatant disregard for the sanctity of life shown by the ugly perpetrators of this military madness. And they are shamelessly doing it all because those copping the Nuevo Blitz Krieg are Gentiles or non-Jews religiously speaking!

All the vitriolic talk of so-called anti-Semitism amounts to nothing more than Netanyahu-style hysteria. To bring a measure of sanity back into the picture, it must be emphasized that technically all those of Middle-Eastern and even some African backgrounds are Semitic people, and this includes speakers of the following languages and those with these culturo-linguistic backgrounds: Amheric, Aramaic, Hebrew, and Arabic just to name a few. Therefore, this whole notion of ‘anti-semitism’ coming from Arabs or other non-Jewish Middle Eastern cultures is a total FALLACY. Why? Because linguistically all these languages be they Amheric, Aramaic, Hebrew or Arabic are SEMITIC languages. It’s a complete and utter contradiction to accuse anyone from any of these ethno-linguistic backgrounds except Hebrew of ‘anti-Semitism’, because all these languages, not only Hebrew but ALL the others too, are Semitic languages. The only real anti-Semites are white supremacist Neo-Nazi types or extremists of any kind who are opposed to people from lands where Semitic languages are spoken. So considering then, that since both Hebrews and Arabs are literally cousins and speak related Semitic languages, there is no such thing as anti-Semitism amongst Arabs since they too are Semitic! To accuse any group of non-Jewish Middle Eastern people of being ‘anti-Semitic’ is a blatant fallacy and contradiction since how can any Semitic ethnolinguistic group be anti-Semitic?? It doesn’t make sense….it’s like just because one group of African-Americans disagree with another group of a similar background, does this make them ‘anti-black’ or ‘anti-coloured’? I know that might be the way it is with Kanye West but not with the vast majority of well-meaning Afro-Americans. If you are coloured, you cannot be anti-coloured as such and if you are Semitic – no matter the variety – you cannot be anti-Semitic, although, I’ll give it that in exceptional cases of mental illness such as that of Adolf Hitler, someone with Semitic ancestry can, as a by-product of their madness, be so self-loathing that everyone who is of their kin in this respect, they are bound to abhorr. And I’ll also say this as someone with Jewish heritage on my mother’s side that I am disgusted at the disdainful violence expediently expidited by the current seperatist ‘Israeli’ government who want to obliterate virtually the entire Gentile presence in all of Palestine – right throughout the Holy Land. This is a sad, sad day for the reuptation of the Jewish nation on account of the Netanyahu government’s explicit hatred of non-Jews. What a load of Phariseic hypocrisy they are trail blazing and blitzing around the place right now!

This war is not a Mitzvos⁵ that will earn those of you who give credence to it “spiritual merit” of the kind that we Roman Catholics attribute to Indulgences.⁶ Instead it will earn you divine retribution for the callousness and cruelty of your endorsement of “man’s inhumanity to man & all creation” in the total disregard for the principles of peace and mutual brotherhood you are showing through waging this war. Gentiles are still your brothers and sisters even though they are of “other nations” and do not hail from the gene pool of God’s chosen race. And the Biblical story of Ruth and Naomi is testament to that.

Whoever sides with such carnage as that perpetrated by the Netanyahu coalition sides with bigotry because anyone who is authentically honouring their traditional Jewish faith & culture would not endorse jihadist-like extremism. Netanhyahu and his political henchmen are acting like the political arm of ISIS and ISIS btw are not any better than Nazis for that matter. And the IDF is not much better than ISIS relative to how it sees Gaza. So where does this leave the self-righteousness of the Netanyahu coalition?? None other than in the hands of a villainy comparable to Nazism itself. It’s no wonder that there were protests against his administration back in the locales of its roost earlier last year. A real pity though that these protests did not last and culminate in an ousting of his corrupt dictatorship. For that is truly what is needed – a deposing of this despot and his band of thieves who steal from the poor only to give the loot to the rich. The current administration of Benjamin Netanyahu is blindsighted by a demonic obsession, one that has as its vanguard and rearguard an ideological madness which believes in a fictitious supremacy of an extremist substrain of Zionistic nationalism “uberalles”PERIOD. This whole thing is a shameful calamity caused by a corrupt power-obsessed regime that perceives all Gentiles in the Land as basically ‘enemies’. An absolutely horrific disregard for the wisdom of Exodus 22 : 21. What has ever happened to the spirit of the Convivencia, which, while it flourished in Spain for a time, was nevertheless meant to be a timeless exemplary lesson in the cultivation of a spirit of coexistential unity throughout all of Palestine between members of the three great monotheistic religious communities?

No war is ‘just’ if it is started as an over-reaction to a criminal act (such as what happened on October 7th, which was a criminal act – and a serial one at that) and as such ought to have been dealt with as a criminal act – Scotland Yard style, which means, like any other crime, these terrorist actions ought to have been investigated by the civil police, by crime detectives, and once caught, the perpetrators ought to have been brought to trial in a court of law. Shame on the Netanyahu administration for lacking wisdom and prudence. There is something totally wrong with tracking down snipers the way Netanyahu’s government have been doing it all these months now since October of last year! They are not even bothering to merely use internal investigators or detectives in the manner of their local equivalent of Scotland Yard, ASIO or the Feds to sus out the crims who randomly snipered those Kibbutzim and techno rave people all those months back at the start of October 2023. Instead they decide to launch a full-scale war by blitzing the entire city of Gaza and causing huge amounts of death and destruction in the process! What fools they are so lacking in Godly wisdom and too haughty at that to be humble enough to ask God for it, for the wisdom to know better how to act in view of what happened in October of last year! I am utterly devastated at hearing and reading these reports of how merciless these national government forces in greater Palestine (aka: the State of ‘Israel’) are under the dictatorship of Benjamin Netanyahu. So uncaring, hostile, and non-negotiable. Calling everybody else around their borders ‘terrorists’, (all except themselves of course), is coming to sound alot like another motley crew of brazen, unrivaled mercinary extremists from a few years back who marauded the entire landscape of Syria & Iraq on the hunt to callously eliminate any and everybody who didn’t tow their line – and that of course is none other than ISIS. They in Tel Aviv could have saved huge amounts of money, spared countless innocent lives, not to mention saved their own reputation and that of millions of innocent Jews just by launching an official criminal investigation and then seek to apprehend the perpetrators of the sniper attacks on October 7th in order to bring them to proper criminal justice in a court of law. What has happened to the proper use of the means of justice, civil justice in the name of conserving liberty and life?? It has become next to redundant in the place that was sadly re-named “the State of Israel” after 1948. There is no longer any interest in using a proper court of law to convict serial murderers! Instead they prefer to go bomb whole swathes of one city with the excuse that the murderers are hiding there! How stupid can u get!? All those innocent lives lost just because the corrupt national government is too lazy to launch an official criminal investigation to lawfully apprehend the murderers. I mean, can u imagine the madness, the mad mess caused if the national government of the UK, of Britain was to decide it was in the best interests of tracking down a couple of serial killers hiding in the town of Bristol, to just go and bomb the entire town to rack and ruin in an effort to ‘track down’ these serial killers??! No ser-i-ous-ly, that’s how insane this whole Gaza operation is right now. It’s completely off the planet in one of the worst ways if you know what I mean. It’s a downright diabolical stint of crazed proportions that should never have even started. And it makes me think of this Scripture passage time and time again, the one where Jesus was on the Way to Calvary and He stopped to console the weeping women of Jerusalem. He said to them “Weep not for Me but weep instead for yourselves, and your children and your children’s children…..for the time is coming when it would be better for the wombs that have never given birth and the breasts that have never nursed…..if they do this when the wood is green, what will they then do when it is dry?”⁷ Is it no wonder the poor land of Jesus’ Incarnation, of His earthly sojourn is still besieged in the now-time by the horrors of wars and internal strife?

The only real solution is this: Every single member of that diabolically corrupt regime in Netanyahu’s government alongside every combatant in the IDF needs to be brought to trial in the HAGUE for war crimes. Netanyahu and all of his colleagues, and all those IDF personnel responsible for causing all that misery need to be forced by the court to pay all the damages liabilities including all the infrastructural damages and the health-care and livelihood support of all those impacted by this conflict and this ALL out of their own pocket. Further, that despotic government needs to be deposed prior to the court proceedings and an international observer administration supported and overseen by Jordan needs to replace them until the proper opportunity emerges to form a new religiously and culturally diverse government made up of representatives from every community in the Holy Land. Ideally, Israel as a seperate state ought not to exist but Israel as an indigenous nation needs to exist there in a coexistential relationship of mutual respect with every other nation there which shares a culturo-spiritual history and heritage in Palestine. The only state that ought to exist is a Palestine with an equally distributed and shared power-base. This is the only feasible path to lasting peace: strike a mutually agreed-to accord between each of the diverse communities. That said, a two-state solution would not work as it would only maintain division and tensions based around seperation. It is important for the country or nation to be politically one or whole but diversify the sharing of power between representatives of every community. An interim solution though is critical, whereby Jordan ought to take Gaza under the wings of its care, effectively merging Gaza into Jordanian territory. Resultingly, there would be alot more peace in the region and Gaza would be free from attack by the despotic Israeli State provided Jordan’s diplomatic strengths are maintained as they have been for the last couple of decades at least. Right now Jordan’s current governing powers are awesome but it’s critical they stay this way. They are dialogue and fraternity builders. I think by them reaching out and embracing Gaza in a gesture of fraternal support and solidarity, this would be a brilliant move forward in helping to establish peaceful coexistence of various sub-regions within this overall region of the Holy Land. This way is the only path by which a truly liberating and lasting peace for all in Palestine, can be reached.

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References:
1.) The Last Two Million Years: Readers Digest History of Man 1974, Revised Edition, Readers Digest Publications
2.) 1 Timothy 1 : 16b
3.) United Nations Summary Documents – Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem
https://www.un.org/unispal/history2/origins-and-evolution-of-the-palestine-problem/part-i-1917-1947/
4.) Convivencia – Spanish for “living together”. This was a period in Spain during the 9th and 12th centuries when people of all faiths, be they Christian, Jewish, or Muslim, lived together in a culturally and politically harmonious co-existence.
Source: Carroll, J., 2001, cited in May, G, G., The Dark Night of the Soul: A Psychiatrist Explores the Connection between Darkness and Spiritual Growth.
5.) Mitzvos – A Hebraic spiritual concept that pertains to those actions that beget benevolent outcomes and positive consequences. They are virtuous or charitable deeds that merit Divine favour.
6.) Indulgences – A Catholic spiritual concept similar to Mitzvos. However, the difference being that Indulgencespertain to ritual observances which gain spiritual merit rather than simply the general practice of charity or virtue.
7.) Luke 23 : 27-31

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