Israel is Pounding Gaza like the U.S. ships pounded Iwo Jima, launching waves of bombers...

as the men waited off shore on same-said ships and watched the fight in the sky before being sent in to take the island.  It didn't really soften things though:  the fighters defending were tunnelled underground when the island was being bombed, waiting their turn too.

The technology has changed but not the human psychology of the waiting game.

God help Israel.  They delay because the military leaders surely must know what they are facing, sending in their troops to retake the territory, and lift their flag over the coveted ground.

It's like waiting for the hurricane to hit, while the "relief" supplies are well corraled and lined up to go in, once the storm comes...

The saddest thing is knowing the natives -- all stripes of them, rich and poor -- will want to "rebuild" on ill-suited shores, knowing the next waves of violence will surely roll in during the coming decades...

The storms can be tracked, and come from far off lands, but they keep coming to strike shifting sands...

There is no answer really. The wise man builds his house upon a Rock. The survivor adjusts his sails, and settles in more peaceful and stable places.  Age-old teaching instructs us to learn to live with our neighbors in peace, all of us.*

Your quality of life and what you choose to invest in to get to the more peaceful promised land rests with you, and me, brother...

All we can do now is lift our voices in prayer, watch from afar keeping our own souls intact, and vote for wiser minds to prevail in this world.  Surely sooner or later those who put their faith in weapons and violence will recognize their own failings and stop forcing others to play their games by putting our own working dollars toward advancing the decline?

America should stop funding wars and destruction.  "Lord, there's got to be a better way! Tell me: who are you?"  

The future is coming, and new times  and new people in  power not slaving away to the Old Guard too long established at the top and top-heavy at that,  are what will bring ch/Ch  ... ch/Ch .... Change! so long promised in this country, for real.

(Brother Obama wasn't fit to carry the sandals of the One who is Coming... ;-)

Peace to you and yours... we wait in joyful hope for the coming of better days for a/All...

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* Love Your Enemies

…39But I tell you not to resist an evil person. If someone slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also; 40 if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well; 41and if someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.…

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