Israel-Palestine 2023

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is defined by crucial intertwining elements that can, and should be, satisfactorily addressed. Examples of said elements are geography, water, timing, religion, security and dignity. The present consequences to this dynamic, which are nothing short of disastrous, include a bottomless vortex of hatred, rage, death, unaffordable loss of treasure, and indescribable sorrow. Perhaps their respective leaders might benefit from watching the movie Law Abiding Citizen. It realistically depicts, with peerless performances, the extent to which the progression from sorrow to hate and rage can propel someone to lethal unrelenting revenge. As it pertains to the unfolding Israeli-Palestinian saga, untold thousands of such individuals exist, on both sides.

Numerous proposals regarding the fate of Palestinians in general, and of Gazans in particular, have emerged. In 1968 Israel advanced the idea to encourage Gazans to move to the West Bank and then to Jordan and other Arab states. That same year, a U.S. Congressional committee proposed a voluntary relocation of 200,000 Gazans to other countries. Neither materialized, primarily because many intended nations refused to accept them. Another idea is to relocate all Gazans to the Sinai Peninsula, which is part of Egypt. In 2000, the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies published a plan whereby Egypt would cede 720 square kilometers in Sinai, including coastal areas and the city of El-Arish to the Palestinians. Israel would then formally annex Gaza and part of the West Bank and compensate Egypt with an equivalent territory in the Wadi Feiran region of the Negev Desert, security concessions, and some economic privileges. However, shortly before his death, ex-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak rejected the proposal fearing that de facto ethnic cleansing to Egypt might drag it into a war with Israel and ultimately threaten his country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. Worth noting is that in a manner reminiscent of the 1938 Munich conference where the fate of the Sudetenland was settled between Nazi Germany and the western allies without the consent or even attendance of Czechoslovakia, no one asked Gazans for prior approval.

The most radical solution is the current Israeli’s government avowed destruction of Hamas in tandem with a program to eradicate Palestinian hatred of Israel. This implies that most Palestinians do not, at heart, align with and support Hamas, and that it is possible to mandate and enforce how all Palestinians will henceforth feel about Israel. The reality is that in the West Bank, where the Palestinian Authority is viewed as ineffective and weak because it has been unable to deliver Palestinian statehood, the popularity of Hamas has soared. If true, then a final solution of Hamas would require a Palestinian Holocaust. Given the long history of virulent animosity between the two populations, a far more modest and reasonable approach might be to aim for each other’s voluntary tolerance and acceptance.

There are three sobering realities that might, in time, help stop the bloodshed. One is that the will to compromise, which exists in all of us, can eventually overcome any barbarian urge. Secondly, never in recorded history has any belligerent won all its battles and wars, including Hannibal, Rome, and the United States. Even Alexander the Great was compelled to retreat from India. On this vein, the fast-growing military symbiosis between Russia and Iran featuring, among other things, planned transfers of SU-35s from the former to the latter has ominous implications for both the U.S and Israel. Thirdly, in view of its current intractable domestic divide, unprecedented acute challenges in Ukraine and Taiwan, enormous perennial budget deficits, ballooning debt, reduced demand for U.S. treasuries, and declining use of the dollar as an international medium of exchange, it seems risky for Israel, a relatively young nation in its present incarnation, to assume that the status quo will remain unchanged.

The religious aspect of this conflict centers around Jerusalem. It is beyond the scope of these few words to enter the realm of theology except to warn, should it be necessary, about the consequences of religious wars. One unrelated and unbiased example is the saga of the ancient lowland Maya. Their admirable civilization collapsed roughly 600 years before the Spanish conquest after centuries, if not millennia, of non-stop warfare with religious undertones.

There’s also the issue of personalities. Some leaders simply will not compromise even if their inflexible attitude does not align with a majority of voters. One way to settle this ambiguity once and for all is to conduct separate binding plebiscites in both Israel and Palestine. That way, based on answers to specific questions, voters would irrevocably instruct their elected representatives which path to follow. Two such questions might be whether they are willing to compromise, without preconditions and limitations, on the status of Jerusalem, and if they are willing to recognize each other’s right to exist in peace in two separate and contiguous but fully sovereign states with inviolable borders.

Incidentally, a suggested comprehensive solution based on direct geographic and demographic swaps between Israelis and Palestinians, including the water dispute, has already been presented.

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The inspiration for this website stems firstly from the realization that all these issues are really interlinked parts of a giant amorphous puzzle, a Frankenstein-style uncontrolled and uncontrollable man-made economic and political monstrosity designed for the benefit of the few at the expense of the many. And here gender discrimination applies, for but for a few exceptions all the pivotal financial, political and military decisions made over the centuries which have brought us to where we are were made by men. This is overwhelmingly supported by the fact that with a few exceptions, institutionalized democracy and its offspring –the female vote– are, in the annals of human history, recent phenomena. Secondly, there’s what can only be called cultural, ethnic and even racial arrogance and discrimination. Mainstream media as well as some western and eastern global political leaders speak and act as if no historical alternative exists to the moral and ethical standards, if any, they follow to enforce their will. By so doing, they infer that our day and age represents, based on our respective legacies of philosophic/religious persuasions and technological achievements, the pinnacle of human civilization. In fact, that is at best questionable.

Unknown ancient civilizations have left an indelible mark on the record. Among these are Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, which dates back to 9500 BCE, Tiahuanaco in Bolivia, Teotihuacán in Mexico, and of course, the Maya in Mesoamerica. The Maya are of particular interest because their religious/philosophical beliefs and profound technological achievements, which are many, were not influenced by the Old World. Incidentally, the calendar round puts to rest the myth that the wheel was unknown to them. They just didn’t use it for transportation purposes because they lacked beasts of burden. In addition, as shown, the calendar had to have some type of supporting infrastructure, possibly wooden, to hold it in place as the wheels rotated to calculate past and future dates –a rudimentary analog computer, no less. Their mastery of other disciplines is either documented or can be inferred. These include the Dresden Codex –a book of paper made from the pounded bark of a wild species of Ficus and written in Mayan hieroglyphs that contains astronomical and astrological tables, religious references, seasons of the earth, illness and medicine, conjunction of the planets and moons (plural intentional), and the ruins themselves. The latter still stand with little or no subsidence after thousands of years, mute but irrefutable testimony to the Maya’s geological, architectural, mathematical and engineering prowess.

A recent aerial survey of northern Guatemala using light detection and ranging technology (or LIDAR) revealed a 650-square-mile site of hundreds of 3000-year-old cities, towns, and villages with pyramids, platforms, elevated causeways, canals, reservoirs and defense systems including walls, ramparts, and fortresses. As a result, researchers now believe that as many as 15 million people may have lived there at the time. The LIDAR scans indicate that the Maya civilization was interconnected and sophisticated, like ancient Greece and China.

But darkness overcame them. Somewhere along the line they began to disobey their most fundamental religious commandment, namely “Do not sacrifice human beings” (source: Raphael Girard, Esotericism of the Popol Vuh). They also renounced their original egalitarian standard (confirmed by the newly discovered 3000-year-old site in Aguada Fénix, Mexico, and morphed into perpetually-warring city states ruled by hereditary kings who adopted the cult of intolerable inequality and unsuccessfully used it to attempt to dominate, enslave or exterminate each other. By 900 A.D., the classic Maya civilization came to an abrupt end. Not only were the great cities completely depopulated, the ruling elite, including men, even pregnant women, and children were massacred within the burned-out ruins of palaces and cities. By the time of the Spanish arrival, the Cholan-speaking lowland Maya in the Petén jungle had reverted to egalitarian life ruled by elders who doubled as custodians of a rudimentary kernel of the ancient knowledge.

What has all this to do with us, here and now? The demise of the Maya civilization was limited in scope because they had no weapons of mass destruction with which to obliterate the entire planet nor machines capable of changing the climate. We do. The Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is set to 90 seconds to midnight, a dramatic final warning that we are on the verge extinction. It is high time that we heed the Maya experience and rebuke and abolish the cult of intolerable inequality.

Lesson From the Maya

The earthly achievements of the Maya are well known and beyond dispute. In fact, at their peak they equaled, if not surpassed, renowned contemporaries like the Greeks and Chinese. Accordingly, it is astonishing, allowing even for the stifling effect of the Spanish Conquest, that Maya religion –long since dismissed at best as mythological, and at worst as demonic- philosophy and ethics are simply ignored by both Western and Eastern thought. By way of proof, when was the last time that their standards were mentioned, much less invoked, in the mainstream media?

We do not suggest adopting Maya religion; the world has plenty of them. But we should be cognizant of the irreconcilable difference between their specific religious commandment “Do not sacrifice human beings” and their universal practice of doing so over hundreds, if not thousands of years. Either that commandment never existed or it was ignored. In either case, it suggests profound –if not bottomless- religious corruption, the one element that governed their everyday lives, and the consequences thereof, self-destruction 600 years before the Spanish Conquest.   Accordingly, given today’s predicament –a high and growing risk of thermonuclear war between the U.S. and Russia/China and anthropomorphic climate change threatening to destroy our only habitat, it is long past due that collectively we admit and accept that what we’ve been doing since the advent of the first industrial revolution no longer works and that the status quo is going to succumb, one way or another, before fundamental and radical change. All we can do is make it happen gradually and imperceptibly, and the first step to do so is to deal with today’s abysmal inequality.

Popol Vuh Ethical-Moral Standards

 GOD

  • Cabahuil is the Creator (other names are Itzamná, Hunab Ku, Hunrakán in various Mayan languages.
  • The monotheistic conception is based on the idea of plurality within unity.
  • God is omnipotent and the dark forces are only an instrument of His purpose.

SON/DAUGHTER OF GOD

  • The birth of the twins Hunahpú (male) and Ixbalamqué (female) took place at dawn in the winter solstice.
  • Hunahpú became human, died at the hands of evil demons, and resuscitated in a defeat of evil for the preparation of the world so humans could be created.
  • Hunahpú ascended to Heaven.
  • The ascension symbolizes the conversion of the dead person into a Divine Spirit that rises to Heaven. He performs the role of Savior, defending humanity against the forces of evil which He annihilates with his magical rays.
  • The commandments imparted with divine authority by the Son of God resolve all spiritual problems, fix the duties of the people in general, assure HUMAN RIGHTS as well as institutional stability, and elevate work to the category of a religious obligation.

COMMANDMENTS

Do not lie.

Do not get intoxicated in excess.

Do not be proud.

Do not be arrogant.

Do not have a faithless heart.

Do not be cruel.

Do not be envious.

Do not be indolent.

Be exemplary in self-control.

Do not ask more than three times.

Respect the elderly.

Do not reveal secrets.

Do not kill without a righteous reason.

Do not sacrifice human beings.

RELIGION

Man is eternally in debt to God.

The finality of religious morality is the development of an ethically and esthetically-prepared human being.

The principle of FREE WILL (choice) means that man must ever contribute with his actions and constantly exert himself in order to merit the help of Providence against those forces that oppose him. Cultures use this view of good and bad to rate themselves against others, the reason why an ethnic group believes itself superior to the others, regarding itself as chosen by Divinity because they believe themselves composed of “true” men in contrast with the others who are barbaric.

RITES

Observe the rite of confession.

Make pleas to God with fervor and only after confession.

Man must invoke God, pay homage, feed Him, and abide by the rules of religious ethics.

Use Copal incense to fumigate and overcome evil spirits.

Obsidian symbolized Hunaphú during his stay in Xibalbá (the underworld), and serves as an amulet against conjugations.

A plaque of obsidian, placed in a cup full of water beside the door, reduces the most powerful sorcery to nothing.

Burn Copal incense in front of the corn plants in memory of Hunahpú and Ixbalamqué.

EVIL

The existence of evil potencies explains the eternal antagonism of the messianic forces without detracting from the concept of Divine omnipotence.

Every evil has its limits. God allows it for the purpose of testing His creatures. When the test has been judged sufficient, He says “so far and no further.”

Evil endures for as long as God wishes.

Evil has been overcome but not reduced to impotence.

MANKIND

The ultimate goal for mankind AS A WHOLE is to achieve a high degree of ethical perfection by acknowledging its debt to God. Only then will humankind be able to survive because thanks to the inner communion between Divinity and humankind, that harmony which guarantees the stability of the world will have been established in a manner to impede its destruction by cataclysms such as took place in other epochs.

The ideal of human and social perfection, whether of a culture or of a single man, can be gained only through sacrifices and life-experience.

The soul is immortal, the supreme consolidation of humankind.

The human being cannot raise him/herself up to the perfected state except when the whole community shall also have attained divine perfection.

RULERS

Social and religious rank must be conferred by hereditary right.

Within the order of elders, the hereditary right is not by itself sufficient for the exercise of the post. Besides his birth within the order, the candidate must win the post through personal merit and exemplary conduct.

FAMILY

The grandfather is the father of the whole family.

There is equality of brothers with their first cousins.

Order of march: the children walk ahead of their parents.

Experience is passed on to the offspring through the law of heredity.

MAN/WOMAN

Women: don’t bear children without acknowledging the father.

Men: labor to maintain the family.

Sewing the fields is incumbent upon the man only, because the introduction of the sowing stick into the earth and placement of the seed in the hole it makes symbolizes the role he plays in the sexual act.

Since man learned how to work and to take the social role intended for him, conjugal harmony is absolute because the husband and wife are blended in an indivisible whole. This affirms the principle of duality within unity.

Every creative act must take place during the night so as to concluded by dawn.

JUSTICE

Practice “an eye for an eye”.

Ethics alone leads to a PLANE of salvation that exalts the human being.

WORK

Practice division of labor.

Any reward must first be merited.

WEALTH

The land belongs to those who cultivate it. Any alteration or modification in territorial status must be reflected in that type of inheritance.

Private property must be respected.

The preservation of a stable social order is based upon an equality of rights and obligations. This reaffirms the existence of democracy without the existence of rich or poor.

The type of society goes hand in hand with the customs for the handing on of possessions.

Change must take place imperceptibly, modifying without destroying the structure of the communal clan.

Source: Esotericism of the Popol Vuh, Rapahel Girard

Note: these standards predate the Spanish conquest by thousands of years and are therefore totally unrelated to Old World religious and ethical standards.

Raphael Girard

Maya Ethnographer and Archaeologist

Born in Martigny, Switzerland on October 30, 1898; died in Guatemala City, Guatemala on December 25, 1982. His parents were Joseph Girard, a public works businessman, and Melanie Besse de Girard, elementary schoolteacher, who died when Raphael was 14; although a firstborn child, he had numerous siblings. From an early age he showed intellectual skills. In 1915 he published Le Centenaire Valaisan, followed by Sur le Trim, dedicated to Dr. Zarn, a professor at the Lycée St. Maurice.
In 1918 he served 4th Company, XII Batallion mountain infantry of the Swiss Army.

On January 10, 1919, with the support of Eugene Pittard of Geneva University, prince Roland Bonaparte, Paul Rivet and Alfred Grandidier, he joined the Society of History and Geography of Paris. He then sailed to Honduras, where with the collaboration of fellow anthropologist pioneers Esteban Guardiola, Luis Land, Félix Salgado, Pedro Rivas and Jesús Aguilar founded the Honduran Society of History and Geography. He then completed ethnographic works about the the Hicaques, Payas, Caribss, Miskitos, and Susmus.

In 1935 he graduated as an electrical engineer of the Chicago Institute of Engineering; then, with savings and loans, he started an electric business in Copán, Honduras, followed by similar businesses in Quetzaltepeque and Esquipulas, Guatemala. It was at this time that he was introduced to the Chortí, a Mayan community. In 1949 he published in Spanish The Chortí and the Mayan Problem.

In 1950, with his colleague Lobsiger Dellenbach, he founded the Societé Suisse des Amaricanistes in Geneva. In 1952 he promoted the International Institute of Archaeocivilization seated in Paris, and the International Association for the study of History Religions of Amsterdam. During thses years, on his own, he conducted archaeological excavations in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. In the Honduran Mosquitia he discovered previously unknown archaeological sites and new sculptures in Monte Alto and La Gomera, Guatemala, and the Sierra Apaneca in El Salvador. These discoveries proved useful to definitively establish the cultural horizon of the Maya preclassical period.

In December 1955 he married Peruvian archaeologist Rebeca Carrión Cachot in Lima but moved to Guatemala. Together they collaborated in several ethnographic works; with her support, in 1957 he took an investigative ethnographic trip to the Peruvian Amazon region and published its results the following year.

Honors: Guatemala: Order of the Quetzal, Distinguished Neighbor of the City of Guatemala; El Salvador: Order of Matías Delgado; Honduras: Order of Francisco Morazán; Nicaragua: Order of Rubén Darío. Martigny, Switerland: Prize of the City of Martigny. Honoris Causa Professor of the National Central Institute for Boys of Guatemala; Order of the Sun of Perú (1965); in 1977 the Writers Association of Guatemala, the Theosophical University of Pasadena, CA, and the Swiss Valaisanne Association proposed that the Swedish Academy of Literature nominate Girard for the Nobel Literature prize. In 1978, at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., the Organization of American States awarded him the Diploma of Merit for his more than 50 years of research and publication.

Source: Wikipedia

War

Foundation
1- “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” – Confucius
2- “There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.” -Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher
3- “There never was a good war or a bad peace.” -Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer
4- “All wars are made for the acquisition of assets.” -Plato, 427-347 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher
5- “Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.” -George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer
6- “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” -Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961, American writer

Admonishments
7- “Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him, “for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.” -Matthew 26, 26:52.
8- “There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.” -Sun Tzu
9- “Preventive war is like committing suicide for fear of death.” – Otto von Bismarck, 1815-1898, German chancellor
10- “Who wishes to fight must first count the cost.” -Sun Tzu
11- “War is young men dying and old men talking.” -Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1945, American President [1936-1945]
12- “When the rich make war, it’s the poor that die.” – Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-1980, French philosopher
13- “Either Man will abolish war, or war will abolish Man.” -Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British philosopher
14- “If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth.” – Harry Truman, 1884-1972, President [1945-1953]
15- “Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.” -John Kennedy, 1917-1963, President [1961-1963]
16- “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” -Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist
17- “The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.” -Dwight Eisenhower, 1890-1969, American general & President
18- “Imperialism and terrorism are two dinosaurs that will be confronted in the near future with tragic consequences for humanity.” -Mikis Theodorakis, 1925-2021, Greek composer & politician

Peacemaking
19- “…a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.” -Ecclesiastes 3:8
20- “But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you…” -Matthew 5:44
21- “It is easy to love your friend, but sometimes the hardest lesson to learn is to love your enemy.” -Sun Tzu
22- “Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.” -Sun Tzu
23- “In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.” -Sun Tzu
24- “The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.” -Sun Tzu
25- “Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.” -Sun Tzu

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