The other day Congressman, Rick Allen, lectured the president of Columbia University, Minouche Shafik.
He asked her whether she knew a particular verse in the scriptures: Genesis 12:3.
“I will bless those who bless you, and curse those who curse you…”
The verse relates to God giving Israel to the Jews.
He then asks the Columbia president whether she wants Columbia to be cursed.
How would you have responded to that question?
Here is how I would have responded.
First, I would have stated to the congressman that God doesn’t give land to anyone. And if you think that God does because your book says so, I would ask you to consider the other guys book.
However, for the sake of argument let us assume that God did give the land to the Jews. If he did, that would be contingent upon Jews behaving in accordance with the principles of Judaism, which the vast majority of Israeli Jews mostly certainly do not. Indeed, they have proven themselves not to act like that at all vis a vis their genocide against the Palestinians.
So thats what I would say to the congressman first.
Then I would follow up by asking him, since we are talking about scripture, if he had read Psalm 37 verse 13.
Have you?
Heres what it says. I will paraphrase.
“For God laughs at the wicked for he knows their day is coming.”
And when we talk about the wicked, we are talking about the leadership of Israel which has killed 35,000 people in just six months. Actually, they have killed much more than that because of the uncounted bodies that were left in the rubble.
These bodies were bulldozed away by the IDF into what? Jetties ?
Thats another war crime , my friend.
A staggering war crime.
So far in six months, Israel has killed more than half the people who were killed in the Vietnam war. . It took the United States government 10 years to kill 58,000 of our own men.
Prorated over 10 years, the Israelis will have killed 700,000 Palestinians.
Those are Civil War numbers .
And as far as the bodies in the rubble, thats Heinrich, Himmler territory, my friend.
No proper burial, no grave stone, no remembrance.
In the mind of the average Israeli these people were never there.
They do not count.
They never existed.
In that respect, the protests at Columbia University seem warranted.
Would you want people to protest your death if you were bombed into the rubble and then bulldozed away into the sea without a grave stone, ruthlessly, callously, without any recognition of your existence?
I see.
Sincerely,
Archer Crosley
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