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.

Conflict Resolution For Pre-Schoolers

   There once were two farmers, Farmer Jacob and Farmer Ismail, whose farms were separated by a large swathe of land known as the grazing field that was right in the middle of both farms.

  They and their families had lived on their farms for generations and generations for thousands of years. 

   Both the Jacob and Ismail families lived in peace with each other, except for one item of contention: whom the grazing field between both farms belonged to.

   The Jacob family claimed it belonged to their ancestors. The Ismail family claimed it belonged to their forefathers. 

   But they were not violent people who believed in settling their differences by violence. They were decent human beings who believed in the goodness of their neighbors, which was what people liked to believe about themselves in those days.

   It was also believed that the main reason for such a peaceful outcome was possibly linked to the presence of Police Constable Keepum D'Peace Um, who was always poking his nose into other people's business' while on his peacekeeping rounds, as he liked to call them, whose own family had also been around for thousands of years, keeping the peace from generation to generation.

   And this was how the Keepum D'Peace Um family of police constables managed to do that, keep the peace between both farming families from generation to generation.

   The head of the Police Constable Keepum D'Peace Um family would summon both the heads of the Farmer Jacob and Farmer Ismail farming families to what was known as a table talk, whereupon he would seat them down and say, 'In the interests of peace on this portion of earth, here's what I shall propose.'

'Option One. Both families draw a straight line down the middle and split the land into two equal halves, one for each family.'

'Option Two. Both families share the land, allowing their livestock-their sheep, their goats, their cattle-to wander throughout the length and breadth of the land and graze wherever they like, returning home after the grazing was done, each to its own home.'

   And it was always the second option both neighbors opted for, always, from generation to generation, mainly because it involved no extra work, no unnecessary border demarcation work, no unnecessary barbed-wire fencing work and no unnecessary barricaded border crossing gate construction work on their part, it was believed.

   And yes, from then onwards they all lived happily ever after, from generation to generation, for thousands of years, even until this very day, it was believed.

   The End.

Why Saying 'F*%k Israel' Can Be Hazardous To One's Heath & Well-Being

 The word 'Israel' contains the suffix, 'El', which in Hebrew means 'God'.

According to biblical folklore - a nice secular way of putting it, no? - Israel was the name given to Jacob, son of Isaac and grandson of Abraham, patriarchs of the tribe of modern-day Israel, all of them, as a result of having wrestled with presumably an angel sent by God all night until daybreak, literally, physically, man-to-man, for angels in those days walked the earth like ordinary people did, a name meaning 'He who struggles with God'.

What? F*% he who struggles with me, as God would say in response to someone saying 'F*%k Israel for reasons of his/her own, since he, God, identified by name in the suffix 'El', was uttered in the same breath when he was cursed by whoever it was that cursed Israel?

Well, well, well, let's see about that, shall we, who f*%ks whom, as the imagined reply would be, although God, holy as he was as declared by himself to be, again, according to biblical folklore, wouldn't be expected to stoop to such low levels of vulgarity no matter what. His imagined response, in line with his good name, high office and holy reputation, would probably be something along the lines of 'okay, foul-mouthed mortal, let's see who curses whom' and so on.

So, do be careful the next time you're tempted to say 'F*%k Israel', as God, as identified by name in the suffix 'El' in 'Israel', might not take it too kindly as his name was mentioned in the same breath when you cursed Israel with such an expression of your hatred.

Incidentally, you might also want to be careful when the temptation to curse people with names other than 'Israel' arises for whatever the reason as many names, be they Jewish, Italian, Spanish and so on contain the word or suffix 'God' in them, names such as Gabriel, Jewish, which contains the suffix 'El', or 'God' in Hebrew, Giovani, Italian for 'God has shown favor', Juanito, Spanish for 'The Lord is gracious' and so on.

What a minefield this booby-trapped world of ours was, wasn't it?

This Is Not Genocide, THIS Is.

This is not genocide.

Gaza, pop. 2 million, unguided, random, pilot error airstrikes.

Rafah, pop. 171,899, boom!, one bomb, 20+ Palestinians dead.

Khan Yunis, pop. 205,125, boom!, one bomb, 20+ Palestinians dead.

Jabalia, pop. 172, 704, boom!, one bomb, 20+ Palestinians dead.

THIS is.

West Bank, pop. 3 million, precision, targeted airstrikes.

Bethlehem, pop. 40,983, boom!, one bomb, (?)+ presumed dead.

Hebron, pop. 308,750, boom!, one bomb, (?)+ presumed dead.

Jenin, pop. 115,305, boom!, one bomb, (?)+ presumed dead.

Get your facts right, Amnesty International & Equally Blind Associates.

If I Was Palestinian

 If  I Was Palestinian

If I was Palestinian

I would demonstrate to Israel

My willingness to live in peace

With all my Jewish neighbors

Because who knows if they would not respond accordingly

With love in their hearts

And trust in their actions

And faith that in my actions 

I would always do the right thing 

For peace throughout the land 

Such that and who's to say that such a day would never come

When all of Israel as one

Comes up to me and says,

Come, let's talk, O Ishmaelite,

O Son of Isaac's brother,

O Grandson too of Abraham to whom was promised all the land

And to his offspring too

And which was why we say to you

Why not we share it too

By splitting it in equal halves, 

The first choice being yours,

By virtue of your birthright as firstborn son of Abraham

Or we could just live where we like

With no partition in the land

Which we shall name anew,

The Land Of Our Forefathers,

In both our languages. Arabic and Hebrew.

There's A Claymore At The Door Facing Outwards

 My dear brothers and sisters in Christ;

As you know, the devil was cast down to the earth to mislead the world with lies and deceit, the marks of his trade, in order to snatch people away from following God to following him instead to that pit of burning sulphur that was created specially for him and his children, his flock, all those who belong to him, whose names were not written in the book of life, that place where the worm does not die, nor were the flames extinguished.

It has been written, do not give to dogs what is holy nor cast your pearls before swine, for they may trample them, and afterwards turn around and tear you to pieces.

But verily I say to you, fear not they who can kill the body but not the soul.

Fear they who, let the reader be discerning, will deceive you into believing that everything God has forbidden unto you -killing, raping, butchering, decapitating, disemboweling of pregnant women, adultery, fornication, pillaging, plundering, abducting, kidnapping, enslaving of captive women for sexual purposes, everything evil, wicked and detestable - was permissible and desirable if done in God's holy name.

Their prophets are everywhere, on every street corner, calling you to prayer, inviting you to join them in sinning against God in every sinful way declared sinless by them if done in God's holy name, and risking the reward for such evildoing as a result, a fiery reward in an eternal pit of burning sulphur.

Do not invite such serpents into your homes or share bread with them, for what they seek is the eternal destruction of your soul together with them in everlasting hell.

This is their purpose on earth as recruiting agents for their lord and master, Satan, the Great Deceiver. 

May the one true God, the Lord is his name, deliver us from such evil. Amen.

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Jannah Welcome Committee Officials Call For Halt In Fighting To Replenish Virgin Bride Stock Exhausted By Excessive Martyr Arrivals

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Lower Earth Orbit Relay Station, Outer Space:- Jannah welcome committee officials have called for a halt in fighting in the Middle East due to diminishing virgin bride stockpiles caused by an unprecedented surge in martyr arrivals.

"We wouldn't be in this position," said one of the officials speaking on condition of anonymity, "had high-ranking martyrs not arrived in large numbers unexpectedly," he continued, "and although we don't generally talk about it, high-ranking martyrs are entitled to certain privileges others are not, such as special quotas in virgin bride allotments, which can run into the hundreds of thousands, even millions, like on earth, the only difference being the currency type," he concluded.