WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ISAIAH ?

Insanity upon insanity. The criminals are let loose on the world and all we get is ridiculous analysis from pundits and journalists who are meant to be experts and fully briefed on the activities of these miscreants. What is absurd is the lack of spine in the restraining from condemning the obvious outrage of their actions. The spurious reasons given by Mr Netanyahu for launching yet another attack is flatly accepted without reply by western leaders and journalists alike. It is no longer a question of being evenhanded and non partisan. The decisions being taken by Trump, Putin, Netanyahu et al deserve condemnation from every civilised human being on the planet. The insidious false claims of emergencies should be roundly denounced. Most of these people have already been charged and summoned before the International Criminal Court,  so why are they not in the dock. 

The fact that violence breeds violence is a fact. It is not opinion or speculation. It is an established fact. The destruction that pours out of Russia, Israel, Iran, the United States and other areas of conflict is clearly there to be seen. There are real pictures, not photoshopped or computer generated imagery. Violence is a virus seemingly without a cure. The only method is to disempower the perpetrators. Its effects are real. How many times does it need saying?

Consider the notion of banning the bomb and so called non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, part of the excuse of Mr Netanyahu’s attack on Iran. How twisted an argument is that? If having access to nuclear weapons is a deterrent, then how is it that so many non nuclear weapons, every bit as lethal, in enormous supply by most countries, is not a deterrent? How successful has being armed to the teeth been a deterrent to the violence being perpetrated throughout the world? Having weapons of mass destruction is a misrepresentation of the facts. We already have weapons of mass destruction in operation all over the world. What else can one call machine guns that fire thousand of rounds a second and aircraft that carry computer guided very explosive and devastating bombs? 

What difference has the possession of nuclear weapons made to the differences between India and Pakistan in Kashmir other than to threaten and supposedly excuse the lethal weaponry already being deployed. It is insanity upon insanity. 

In the bible, the book of Isaiah 2:4 states:
    He will judge between the nations
        and will settle disputes for many peoples.
    They will beat their swords into plowshares
        and their spears into pruning hooks.
    Nation will not take up sword against nation,
        nor will they train for war anymore.

That was supposedly over 3000 years ago, and written in the promised land. How has it worked out so far? Clearly Mr Netanyahu missed out on his bible classes. 

Isaiah - Sistine Chapel -Michaelangelo

Wikipedia states:

“Isaiah was the 8th-century BC Israelite prophet after whom the Book of Isaiah is named.
The text of the Book of Isaiah refers to Isaiah as "the prophet",[12] but the exact relationship between the Book of Isaiah and the actual prophet Isaiah is complicated. The traditional view is that all 66 chapters of the book of Isaiah were written by one man, Isaiah, possibly in two periods between 740 BC and c. 686 BC, separated by approximately 15 years.
Another widely held view suggests that parts of the first half of the book (chapters 1–39) originated with the historical prophet, interspersed with prose commentaries written in the time of King Josiah 100 years later, and that the remainder of the book dates from immediately before and immediately after the end of the 6th-century BC exile in Babylon (almost two centuries after the time of the historical prophet), and that perhaps these later chapters represent the work of an ongoing school of prophets who prophesied in accordance with his prophecies”

The fact of the matter is that we have had the word of God for over 3 millennium. It has been made available in almost every hotel room around the globe. It is by far the world’s best selling book with over 5 billion in sales, from a world population of almost 9 billion souls, and still nations take up swords against nations. What price deterrence?

As the planet grows older it hosts a number of nations that have developed some form of democracy organised around what, in most cases, is called the rule of law. That law is founded on the principle that individuals do not harm other individuals either by violence or dishonesty. There is no doubt that so long as nations citizens elect dishonest and violent people as their representatives, He will not be able to fulfil Isaiah’s prophesy; whoever He or they may be. Elections and representatives clearly matter. Think very carefully before you vote or pick a side to line up with. You would do well to steer clear of people who claim to speak for the wants of “The British people” or “The American people” or any of such populist crap. That sort of talk usually just represents their own personal agenda without any real regard for the desires of anyone else, let alone “the people”. 

We are living in a turbulent time. I can only blame my generation who have failed to live up to our initial promise of care, freedom of expression and equality for all, and allowed bigotry, prejudice and narrow mindedness to continue to flourish and infect our children and grandchildren. How did that happen? How is it that mob and corrupt rule can still occur? The racist and xenophobic outbreaks in Northern Ireland, the actions of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in the US and California, the Israeli Defence Force in the middle East and many more such agencies, are all symptoms of a society we have failed to inspire. We have been no more effective than Isaiah. Je suis désolé.

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