Isreali-Palestine problem

I was just reading a blog about the Middle East problem called,

gaza-sderot.blogspot.com

However I fear that it if I write my opinions, people will call me anti-Semite, but I am not.

The problems all go back to thousands of years ago, after Moses led the Israelites through the desert, after being freed from a slavery, which lasted 500 years. Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments and found them worshipping an idol and behaving in an immoral way and because of their idolatry and their complaining they were condemned to wondered around the desert for 40 years.

What many people don’t know is that God didn’t have just Ten Commandments for his chosen people; there were loads of them, Laws and ceremonies, which were to be adhered to.

Many of the laws where very useful for resolving disputes which might arise within the community, and many of them were a kind of ‘moral code’. To give examples would be laborious and confusing, however if you go to Exodus 20 you can see for yourself, nearly a hundred pages! Laws and ceremonies, it runs into the next chapter, Leviticus.

Many of these laws had logic, and a lot of psychology behind them, to have a well run community. We must remember that in those days people were extremely ignorant, they never had a ‘conscience’ as such. God through Law told them what was acceptable and what was not. They were further told that if they disobeyed these laws….

Leviticus 26:14-17

‘’’But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands, and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant, then I will do this to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and drain away your life. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it. I will set my face against you so that you will be defeated by your enemies; those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even when no-one is pursuing you.

It goes on further

26:31

will turn your cities into ruins and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings. I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who live there will be appalled. I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins. Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths. At the time it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not have during the Sabbaths you lived in it.

As for those of you who are left, I will make their hearts so fearful in the lands of their enemies that the sound of the wind-blow leaf will put them to flight.’’’

Very dramatic: The Old Testament shows that the Jews were fairly disobedient, instead of developing a conscience they adhered to the law in such a way that they could manipulate it to their advantage;

Jesus gave this example of the behaviour:

‘Before you make you peace offering at the alter say sorry to the one you offended!’ He didn’t use exactly those words, but the effect is the same.

There was no mercy in their ruler’s hearts. The common people understood what mercy was but the rulers and the religious men were manipulative and bent the law any way they could, pretty much like many countries today.

When Jesus came he explained things plainly. And through Jesus comes forgiveness for all: The gentiles and the Jews.

Not all the Jews are to blame, that would be like blaming all Germans today because of the Second World War. As the young men who write in the above-mentioned blog it is generally the leaders. The common Palestinians and Israelis want peace and justice, it is the leaders who obstruct the road to peace.

Palestine and Israel are witnesses for the whole world to see.