Just as we were beginning to work at discovering equilibrium in ourselves, we heard the stunning suggestion that the United States should ‘take over” Gaza, expel Palestinians living there and make it into a “Middle Eastern Riviera.” Of all the pronouncements we have heard over the past two weeks, this one had to be the most unexpected.
Or was it? Last year Jared Kushner went to Gaza and made such a proposal in the middle of a war that was destroying this small enclave. Looking at the Mediterranean from the shore, Kushner said it was a magnificent area, ripe for development.
So now our foreign policy on the Mideast is governed by a desire for real estate development? Not to mention the suggestion that we should send troops to run it?
Eliminating Palestinians is, of course, what Netanyahu would like to do. Don’t you wonder what the Palestinians in Dearborn must be thinking as they voted for a man who has so little regard for them as a people? Struggling to keep that equilibrium.
Prayer for the Day
Save us, dear Lord, from the desires of a David,
Using his power to gain a Bathsheba;
We cry for a Nathan and your judgment, O Lord,
That it be used against the sinner rather than the Nation.
Create in us firm hearts to oppose such hubris,
Driven by a desire for little more than possession.
In the name of the One who opposed the abuse of poer,
Even Christ Jesus our Lord, Amen.
Thoughts for the Day
It just showed an utter sort of callous disdain and disregard for Palestinian lives and Palestinian humanity and Palestinian dignity, like it's as though they're just a pawn that are being played around with.
Laila El-Haddad, American Palestinian writer an activist
It's a call for ethnic cleansing, for the forced displacement and expulsion of a people from their native land. It is immoral, it is illegal, and it is dangerous.
Husam Zumlot, Palestinian Mission to the United Nations
It happened late oe=ne afternoon, when David rose from his couch and was walking about on the roof of the king’s house, he saw from the roof a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful. David sent someone to inquire about the woman. This is Bathsheba, wife of Uriah the Hittite. And David sent messengers to get her… but the thing that David had done displeased the Lord, and the Lord sent Nathan to David.
2 Samuel 11: 2-4, 12: 1