Towards the inevitable

 

Aug 13, 2025

World News is depressing, alarming and riveting.  A war goes on in Ukraine beyond expectation of endurance. Beleaguered President Zelensky clutches his rosary and turns a brave face to the world.  Mister Putin carries on his bullying unchallenged.  President Trump fawns over his old buddy Putin, impotently attempting peace talks. Putin demands that the Ukraine president be absent, remain on the sidelines, and Trump lets Putin dictate the terms.  The world looks on, pretending that something real is happening.  Or do we all know it is an illusion?

The Palestinians soldier on.  The world has forgotten the Palestine history.  Even more forgotten is the Ottoman Empire.  In my formative education, the name was barely mentioned.  Anyone who has spent any time in East Asia, in the eastern reaches of the Mediterranean, has seen the magnificent ruins of palaces and roads left from that era.  In spite of the vast reaches of the Palestinian people inherited from the Ottomans, a stubborn group clings to a tiny portion of that range of land, threatening to end the world-as-we-know-it with a savage war between great nations.  This small band of people ignore the reality of the Israel nation, who in modernity have been granted a strip of this land as their own home.  This, after these same Hebrews have been in hejira for centuries, chased, vilified and hounded.  Major art has been based on their story, Fiddler on the Roof telling the story of pogroms.  When pogroms came, the Hebrews packed up in the night and fled rather than being slaughtered.  But the modern band of Palestinians clinging to the land given to the modern Nation of Israel prefer to spit in the face of death.  They refuse removal.  Who wouldn’t?  The land they occupy is desirable seashore real estate.  Why should they lose this delightful spot, and trade it for a patch of desert elsewhere in the Land of Palestine?  No, pogrom is not for them.  Jordon, carved from that section of the Ottoman Empire briefly known as Palestine, already has a large community of Gazan relatives, but makes no effort to entice the dying to also migrate there.  And so their death spreads out across years of fighting, forcing our noses into the horrible stink of bodies under rubble, children dying of starvation, a narrow strip of land destroyed utterly rather than flight. Daily, for years now, news broadcasted into homes has harrowing effect on innocent people horrified and morally outraged.  Such horror requires answers.  How did this happen?  Why is this happening?  How can it stop?  Who should be stopping it?  The debates send people into political divisions. 

Netanyahu used to be a darling among many Americans.  He spent many years in America in his youth, and received his education there.  He felt like one of their own.  Along the way he lost some of his followers, by seeming to take a politically hard right stand.  Now he stands as a monster.  He is determined to end the Palestinian question by wiping out all who stubbornly cling to Gaza.  This tiny strip of land clinging to a 25-mile strip along the Mediterranean Sea and about 3  to 4 miles inland is being crushed to rubble.  It will be generations before any order and natural beauty can be restored there.  There is an active militant force, called Hammas, that holds up the opposing force of attacks and counter-attacks.  The mentality is, “If I can’t have it, no one can”. As long as that juvenile level of reasoning continues, the world creeps closer to a catastrophic war. 

There was a book written in the 1960’s by Hal Lindsey, The Late Great Planet Earth. It is his interpretation of the last book of the Bible’s New Testament, a book of prophecy.  In it, a war in Israel escalates, and draws in all the great nations, including China and Russia.  It is as if the world were itching for a fight, and this seemed the perfect challenge for all.  Except for the United States, according to Lindsey, which sits on the sidelines scratching its proverbial head.

The United States, meanwhile, collapses.  This lovely dream that endured for nearly 250 years, of freedom and equality of man and spirit, has lost its patina and frays around the edges.  It never was all that, having at its root enslavement of peoples from the continent of Africa. Built on such a double standard, it was doomed to fail from the beginning.  It did offer history a brilliant model of freedom and independence of thought and spirit.  The framework it established in its constitution, in its structure of a balanced system of government and citizen representation was a new take on democracy and was a vital force in the creation of a spectacular era of modernity, innovation and progress.  Perhaps it was even productive of something entirely new on the earth.  In this same prophetic book of the Bible we are told that all of this progress will end when the world is flooded with information.  This is what we see now.  Information flows from one end of the globe to the other with the speed of light.  This information is unfiltered, and flawed.  Instead of raising the level of unity, intelligence and wisdom, it sows doubt, confusion and division.  The foundation crumbles, weakens and falls.

In parallel existence, the metaphysical world is being transformed.  A New Man is being formed on earth.  The notable Deepak Chopra even dares to put a date on it, saying this transformation will be manifest to all in twenty more years.  The dross of evil and negativity will fall away, drowned in an ocean of Love.  Those who have eyes, let them see.  Those who have ears, let them hear.  A new heaven and earth will reign.  Amazing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinians_in_Jordan