The Five Steps Of Martyrdom

The first step towards martyrdom is to place one foot in the grave. The second step is to place the other foot in the grave. The third step is to lie down, close the eyes, stop breathing and die. The fourth step is to open the eyes in paradise. The fifth step is to enjoy the rewards of martyrdom in paradise. Sometimes a little outside help is needed in completing the third step, help that is not always appreciated by those who come to pay their respects at the martyr's grave, especially when too much outside help is given without consent.

Was Christianity The Key To Peace In The Middle East?

 I'm beginning to realize what it was that's central to Jewish-Arab animosity since the beginning of the first millennium onwards. 

Religion. 

The Jews have Judaism, non-negotiable, the Arabs have Islam, non-negotiable, and never shall the twain meet. 

Arab Christians and Israeli Christians, however, are bonded in love for each other just as Jesus commanded them, to 'love one another as I have loved you'.

Christianity, therefore, may be the key to peaceful co-existence between both Arabs and Jews, or Israelis, in the Middle East, not Judaism or Islam, both proven to be religions not of peace or love or tolerance but of violence, hatred and holy war in the case of one and vengeance and retribution in the case of the other.

Observations # 40

Double-standard politics or political viewpoints are like a man with blurred vision reading the news.

When the news concerns what appears to be an illegal act committed by a non-Jewish nation, the man reads it without his reading glasses. Everything's blurred but he doesn't care. Let them do what they want. Who cares?

However, when the news singles out a Jewish nation as being the perpetrator of what appears to be an illegal act deemed to be in the interests of national security on the Jewish nation's part, that's when he puts on his reading glasses.

That's his purpose in life, what he was created for. Wish him well. Even the dead generate income for funeral home businesses and related industries. What more the living.

Observations # 38

The war in Gaza is fought on two levels. Level One is fought on the ground in Gaza. Level Two is fought online in cyberspace. 

Psychoanalysts and sociological experts have hypothesized that the online war in cyberspace has come to symbolize or has come about as a result of a war that cannot be won on the ground.

Observations # 37

It is good the world was in so much darkness, for the greater the darkness caused by all the lies and false teachings and hatred for all that's good and righteous, the brighter will the beacons of truth shine.

Why Oct 7 Was A Victory For The Palestinians - Title Of Thesis

Israel has exhausted all possible means of locating and rescuing the remaining hostages and was on the verge of agreeing to a prisoner exchange deal in which the Palestinians get to say which Israeli hostages are released, which Palestinian prisoners are released and how many of each are released, among other conditions.

What Zechariah, Acknowledged By Muhammad As One Of The Prophets, Said About Israel's Enemies

Zechariah 12:1-9

 12 A prophecy: The word of the Lord concerning Israel.

The Lord, who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundation of the earth, and who forms the human spirit within a person, declares:

2 “I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem.

3 On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves.

4 On that day I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness,” declares the Lord. “I will keep a watchful eye over Judah, but I will blind all the horses of the nations.

5 Then the clans of Judah will say in their hearts, ‘The people of Jerusalem are strong, because the Lord Almighty is their God.’

6 “On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among sheaves. They will consume all the surrounding peoples right and left, but Jerusalem will remain intact in her place.

7 “The Lord will save the dwellings of Judah first, so that the honor of the house of David and of Jerusalem’s inhabitants may not be greater than that of Judah.

8 On that day the Lord will shield those who live in Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the Lord going before them.

9 On that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that attack Jerusalem.