Sun, Stand Thou Still Upon Gibeon
That God’s Holy mass murder may be accomplished. Christians, set up your lawn chairs. This is going to be quite a show!
Ain’t you heard? Joshua fought the Battle of Jericho – actually more of a massacre – and as a logical consequence the State of Israel is about to fight the Battle – slash Massacre – of Rafah. Praise the Lord, one assumes.
Read your Bible: “Moses my servant is dead. Now then, cross the Jordan River … I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses.”
Thus sayeth the Lord, The God of Abraham and Moses and Joshua. And the Reverend Orel Roberts and Billie Graham? Apparently that’s the catechism down in the USA.
Jewish and Christian Zionists profess to set great store by the Book of Joshua wherein God (assumed by Christians to be the same spirit that they call God) gives what was then (assumed to be around 1200 BC) Canaan to the Israelites (assumed by both religionists to be the same people who now call themselves Israelis) …
Whoa! This is a series of assumptions upon assumptions that mount up to a dizzying height. Maybe I’m extra sensitive to heights. I worry about actual nuts-and-bolts-and-detonators-type Apocalyptic stuff like World War Three and nuclear extinction. Oh me of little faith…
Anyhow here’s what the Book of Joshua allows:
<< The Book of Joshua, Chapter One (New International Bible translation):
<< 1. After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ aide:
2 “Moses my servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them—to the Israelites.
3 I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses.
4 Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the great river, the Euphrates—all the Hittite country—to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.
5 No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.
6 Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their ancestors to give them. >>
The mythology of the Euro-Americans of the early 20th century got rid of God, read all about it in Nietzsche. But the British Foreign Office, so very palsy with Lord Rothschild who bankrolled them, was a fair substitute for God in 1917. The British Army was just then taking Palestine away from the Ottoman Turks, I remind you. So in 1917 the British Foreign Office gave Palestine to the Jews. Here’s the famous letter that all good Zionists hold virtually sacred:
Foreign Office November 2nd, 1917
Dear Lord Rothschild:
I have much pleasure in conveying to you. on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet:
His Majesty's Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non- Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.
I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.
Yours,
Arthur James Balfour
The above private letter became public world-wide when The Times of London newspaper published it one week later.
Which brings us up to 2024.
It is rumoured that the Republican Party is heavily influenced, if not virtually owned by, the American Israeli Political Affairs Committee and Donald Trump is too. Trump and the Republican Party are the odds on favourite of every political bookie in Washington to carry the banner of victory over the top and annihilate every Democrat they can catch come Election Day this November.
The so-called Fundamentalist Christians most allied with Israel have a neat label now: Christian Zionists. Bibi Netanyahu and his gang, his “Likud”, run Israel like their fiefdom. They use the Torah as an excuse. The Hebrew Torah is also the first five books of what Christians call the Old Testament, as I understand it. Bibi and his soldiers may not be aware that Christian Zionists put the Pentateuch together with the Book of Revelation [aka the Apocalypse] so they apparently believe that after the Jews do the final Battle of Armageddon they will all be converted or damned by Jesus.
The Israeli Zionists may be aware of this American Zionist mythology and just not care about it. They don’t give a rat’s posterior what Washington thinks anymore, since after 9/11 they finally put Congress and the White House sewed up in their pocket. And so the USA is their piggy bank.
They really don’t give the products of the rat’s posterior for any of this Torah/Bible claptrap anyway. To them it’s all about power. And, being the best imitation of psychopaths on the global political scene, like the typical psycho they figure they have all the power and none of that bullshit humans call guilt.
So the Fundamentalist Christians and the most powerful lobby in Washington, the American Israeli Political Affairs Committee, are hand in hand and hot to trot to kill as many people in Gaza as American supplied bombs can possible kill. AIPAC is well known to have the leadership of Congress, both Democrat and Republican, in its pocket. The Biden administration has begun to have some trepidation about Israel getting off the leash and embarrassing Washington’s pretensions to being the sole global superpower. They mounted a weak attempt at the UN to propose a cease fire in Gaza which fell apart as expected. The Democrats are screwed, blued and tattooed.
We’ve already heard Chapter One of the Book of Joshua. Let’s get into the exciting bits. From Chapter 6 and then Chapter 11…
<< Joshua Chapter 6 [The Battle of Jericho]
15 On the seventh day, they got up at daybreak and marched around the city [Jericho] seven times... when the priests sounded the trumpet blast, Joshua commanded the army, “Shout! For the Lord has given you the city!
17 The city and all that is in it are to be devoted to the Lord. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall be spared, because she hid the spies we sent...
20 When the trumpets sounded, the army shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the men gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed; so everyone charged straight in, and they took the city.
21 They devoted the city to the Lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys…. >>
Chapter 11:
<< Joshua 11:11-23 [New King James version]
<< Then Joshua came back and took Hazor, killing its king. Early on Hazor had been head of all these kingdoms. They killed every person there, carrying out the holy curse—not a breath of life left anywhere. Then he burned down Hazor.
<< Joshua captured and massacred all the royal towns with their kings, the holy curse commanded by Moses the servant of GOD. ... The People of Israel plundered all the loot, including the cattle, from these towns for themselves. But they killed the people—total destruction.
<< They left nothing human that breathed. Just as GOD commanded his servant Moses, so Moses commanded Joshua, and Joshua did it... It was GOD’s idea that they all would stubbornly fight the Israelites so he could put them under the holy curse without mercy… >>
WHOO! Exciting stuff! Disney should make a movie out of it. Maybe they could make Joshua transexual or non-binary … at least Rahab could be an underage tranny, surely? … later...
Well, there you have it, folks. Palestine belongs to the State of Israel to do with as they damn well please and let's hear no nonsense about it. There are some noisy natives in the way but don’t you worry your pretty little heads about it, children. These so-called Palestinians and all the Goyim who come with them, will soon never have existed at all.
The State of Israel, wrapping itself in the musty robes of the ancient propagandists – OOPS! I should have called them PROPHETS, that’s a more holy word, so sorry, my bad...
The Holy State of Israel, justifying itself as the follower of the Torah, the faithful army of Joshua come again after 3200 years, is finally obeying God’s Holy Word and putting 2.3 million people “to the sword”, as per the Bible-speak. And there are, by many reports, a powerful and rich and influential sect of Christian fundamentalist Bible believers who are figuratively setting up lawn chairs in the Holy land of their self-righteous minds to watch and applaud.
Are we all, we who stand under the shadow of nuclear war now growing like a turbo cancer as the State of Israel goes on slaughtering without mercy … are we the people of our self-proclaimed democracies going to just stand by and let this mass murder go on? Are we all going to let ourselves be called mass murderers because we silently consented?
You “stand with Israel” or you don’t. You profess Judaism or Christianity or you don’t. The absolutely incontrovertible fact is that you “stand" with everybody in the world under the shadow of nuclear annihilation.
I’m no better than anybody and I don’t have one shred of political influence. But I do have a voice and I have not been silenced yet. I will shout. I stand against the State of Israel and everything it ever stood for. STOP THIS GENOCIDE.
In the name of God, the God of justice as well as mercy. The God of love and of truth. That’s my God. And He doesn’t massacre women and children. That’s criminals and hypocrites who do that.