The Aftermath Of October 7 th Why is everyone talking about the Palestinians in Gaza and no-one talking about what took place in Israel on that date? War is hell, we know? Do we remember the carpet bombing of Germany prior to the surrender of the Nazis in World War II? Do we remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki that persuaded the Empire of Japan to surrender? Do we remember the rampages of Soviet troops in Eastern Europe and Germany during the conflict. We saw these efforts justified to protect the lives of our soldiers. They tell us that the ratio of non-combatant deaths to combatants during wars is usually 9 to 1. In Gaza it has been close to 1 to 1 because of Israel’s effort to protect the lives of civilians in spite of the efforts of Hamas to place them in harm’s way in an attempt to shield their combatants. The Hamas concentrate their forces in, under, and near hospitals, schools, and religious sites. The measures Israel takes to preserve the lives of civilians cost the lives of
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The Lord Of Hosts The Lord of Hosts has spread His protective shield over Israel, He has provided Israel with the weapons necessary to defend His People against Armageddon. He grants the children of Israel the artifice and wonders of hands and minds to accomplish His purposes in His name. The enemy has been struck down without weapons that can harm His people. Surely only goodness and mercy can come from them. Those of the enemy who understand must rise up with them and sweep away the evil ones who have attacked His people, they must do this for their own sake. His people must sweep away the power of His enemies to harm humanity. Thus speaks the Lord of Hosts.
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Prodigal Existence Some people believe that man is the worst thing that has ever happened to our planet. There is plenty of evidence that we are on our way to making this planet uninhabitable. Exploding populations, rising world temperatures, the ice cap melting, forests shrinking, multiple species disappearance, ocean and air pollution, nuclear self-destruction on the agenda, the list goes on and on. What will be the outcome? Will we have to learn how to survive in space as we search the cosmos for another home before our world caves in around our ears? I remember a high school science experiment with fruit flies. After the experiment I just left my colony container on a shelf. When I returned a month later, all the flies had perished. They had multiplied until they had exhausted all the life-sustaining nutrients in the container. Last summer my Bride and I went for a Sunday walk on the Seawall, starting at English Bay in Vancouver. The last day of June, it was a beautiful sunny
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“ What’s Up, Pussy Cat?”* This jovial title is meant to tempt you, to entice you, to read on. In reality is that I’m blue about the world I inhabit at the moment .You are in the soup with me. Being Jewish, though, I am very much absorbed with world events impacting me, personally, along with members of my extended family, and the community I am a part of. The war in Gaza is ongoing, IDF soldiers are dying, hopefully Hamas terrorist are too in much greater numbers, along with the civilians Hamas strives to place in harm’s way as their protective shields. The hostages that Hamas holds are suffering and dying too, women being raped on a daily basis. All this is going on and it’s with me all day, every day, and in my many sleepless nights .I am horrified by the reality of these events. I am also horrified at what has happened in the United States. That so many in the Grand Old Party have made common cause with a common criminal, a lying lothario of indeterminate wealth, on the edge
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Telling A Story Sometime we feel driven to tell a story. We know we are magicians, but our tricks are with words. We use sleight of words instead of sleight of hand to present the images to our clients. Something may have happened in our past. It can lie there for years, for decades. It can float to the surface of our minds and capture us. Then we may be driven to explore the impact, the intent. It worries at us until we find a way to absorb it into our capacity to express it. We may not want the world to know the real story. There may be all sorts of entanglements with our present that we may not want to confront. But the lesson of the past experience may drive us to allow it to find expression in a form we can accept. We can leave hints in the tale we weave, just for the fun of it-to see if the determined, the curious, the conspiracy theorists, can follow the tortuous trail we blaze through the thickets of our minds. They are mysterious, jagged zig-zags of electricity-nan
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Who Is Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf? I am. I’m afraid of the big bad wolf. Who is he? It’s more like an ”it”! I’m afraid of the world-wide Jihadist movement that has spread its tentacles far beyond its birthplace deep in the heart of Arabia. Its strongest visible emanations are currently coming from Iran, fostering it with Qatar. It is deeply implanted in Isis, Islamic State, Al Qaeda, in Syria and Iraq, HAMAS AND HISBULLAH in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon. (Paradoxically the U.S. and western Countries, and the UN, are financing terrorism through UNRWA.) Jihadism had its more recent origin in Afghanistan’s struggle, first against Russia and later the U.S., in the person of the Taliban. Its later evolution in Syria and Iraq devolved into a competition, physically and philosophically, between Al Qaeda and the Islamic State. While these groupings continue to exist, and actually oppose existing Arab regimes, (and are the reason for a U.S. presence,) currently, other Islami