Failing the Founding Fathers

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK

 

          The US claims a proud history of being a nation blessed by YHWH and of never having had a dictator, a tyrant, or a coup. Many would deny the validity of those claims; but, can any deny the US is crumbling along with most of the rest of the world. For the last few generations the US and the world have been paying the price for the US’s attempts at “nation building” and “spreading democracy” while simultaneously abandoning biblical morals internally. The US cannot build another up while disintegrating itself; and, the US has never been, nor was it designed to be, a democracy.

So what went wrong? How did this great experiment, of a capitalistic constitutional republic for a free and equal people, which began by men with a strong sense of biblical morality (See Note¹), end up where it is now? I would posit the first step on the slippery slope to implosion began over a hundred years ago. Lincoln was accused by many of acting the tyrant and it cannot be denied he ignored the Constitution and abused the Rights of the States. After Lincoln, membership in the Republic was no longer voluntary - it was join or else (like Islam & Sharia Law). Under FDR came the drifting away from “laissez faire” capitalism to “New Deal” socialism (see section nine here for an example) - a change in political as well as economic philosophy. Johnson continued this assault with the “Great Society” programs. (There are even those who believe Johnson led the first coup via the killing of Kennedy.) By this time social equality began trumping individual morality as a national expectation. Economically the final nail in that coffin came with Nixon’s financial fiasco - the final and full rejection of the gold standard. Politically, the latest assault on the Constitution (and perhaps the fatal one) is being waged by the Obama administration. Obama, with his pen and his phone, is pushing the boundaries of president/dictator: His consistent indecision may be all that is delaying his utter destruction of the US.

          The US is woefully in need of folks of the caliber that started the Republic. These were exceptional men who studied history and knew that democracy does not work on a mass scale. A Constitution was needed; but, a Constitution would only be as strong as the morals of those applying it (again See Note¹). These were men that understood that individual freedom must triumph over government authority - e.g. monarchy and freedom do not work well together. They also understood socialism did not work well with freedom: Placing too heavy a social burden on a people eroded their individual freedoms. As an experiment, the Founders created a Constitutional Republic supported by a free market capitalistic economy. The nation and “freedom” would last as long as they were supported by a moral, hardworking people.

          The key issue as to why the US is going downhill (fast!) is the same reason that “US methods” do not work when transplanted to most other nations. The methods were designed for people with morals based on the biblical principles of YHWH and a deep sense of individual freedom AND responsibility. Too may “Americans” today have little to no morals and economically expect to be cared for from cradle to grave - with maximum freedom and no responsibility. Too many Americans demand, not freedom of religion, but the freedom to ban the “free exercise thereof” for biblically based religion.

          Consider the Pledge of Allegiance:

                    “I pledge allegiance” -- How many Americans still actually say or mean this pledge. CBS just rejected an advertisement as being “too political” because it had a young girl’s recitation of the Pledge! A US Army veteran was banned from reciting the Pledge at a US taxpayer funded public university because it might offend foreign students! Where is American loyalty? Theodore Roosevelt railed against Hyphenated Americans (PDF) - or in modern times against terms like African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, etc. - with divided loyalties. A clear cut example of disloyalty is that the Obama administration continues to bring thousands of Somalis to the US every year - most with loyalty to the Islamic terrorists the US has been under attack from for decades! These people want to eventually kill everyone who holds the biblical values that built the US!

                    “And to the Republic for which it stands” -- The US no longer stands as a republic. Few citizens even know what the word means much less that the US was supposed to be a republic and not a democracy. Ben Franklin warned that the new nation would only have - “A republic, if you can keep it.”

                    “Under God” -- God, in most any form, is being shunned in public discourse. YHWH is being banned from the workplace, the court room, etc. In public education YHWH is not just banned but is being replaced, by law in many cases, by Allah.

                    “With Liberty and Justice for All” -- Worshippers of YHWH no longer have the liberty of the Constitutionally guaranteed right to the “free exercise thereof” of their religion - the very religious basis the Founding Fathers knew was required for the success of the Republic! It is illegal now to teach, in public schools, the very same biblical principles that, again, the Founding Fathers knew were required for the success of the Republic!

          The people of the US are learning a hard lesson that the “Father of the Country” warned them of: “Government is not reason, it is not eloquence – it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” - George Washington

          The US has always been a nation of multi-cultural diversity; but, it was held together by a majority with a common set of principles supporting the Constitution and the Republic. As Alexander Hamilton said, “For my own part, I sincerely esteem it a system which without the finger of God never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests”. (See Luke 11:20)

It may not yet be too late. As with Nineveh (Jonah 3:8-10) the US may still have time before YHWH’s justice is meted out. SPEAK OUT! Stand up for and serve YHWH and His principles. YOU ARE a part of the solution or a part of the problem. “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Edmund Burke

QUOTE

“Rebels, especially successful rebels, were of necessity bad subjects and worse governors.” --

Seven Pillars of Wisdom -- T.E. Lawrence

          COMMENT: What does the US hope to accomplish in the Middle East? The people of the US need to focus on the US Government’s War on YHWH and not on fighting one Islamists group to prop up the governments of other Islamist groups. Not a single nation in the Middle East has come close to achieving a stable government over a free and equal people - except Israel. This should come as no surprise. It is historically the only time that the world has seen a government over a free and equal people with biblical morality as the basis for the majority. (The US did not qualify for the “Free and Equal” for most of its early history and as the people became more equal they also became less biblically moral - and without such morals the “experiment” is doomed to failure.)

DID YOU KNOW

There is no mention of a separation of Church and State in the Constitution. READ IT!

In the Wikipedia section entitled “Hyphenated American” it is so politically correct it never even mentions the most modern and divisive examples of “Hyphenated Americans” which are the African-American and the Mexican-American. One of which the US government practically mandates the use of!

          In public education in the US quoting the Bible is shunned if not forbidden while quoting the Koran, the Vedas, etc. are promoted as “expressions of cultural sensitivity”. The same goes for quoting Jesus versus Buddha, the Dalai Lama, Confucius, etc.

          The Founding Fathers did not believe in democracy as a viable form of government: They believed in a Constitutional Republic - read the quotes below!

Note¹ - Entire books could be, and have been, filled with quotes that prove our forbearers knew the US would be doomed if it turned away from biblical principles - here are but a few I consider to be salient:

George Washington

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

John Adams

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion . . . Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

It is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.

Samuel Adams

Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. --- Comment: And now a major beer producer uses his name to support the LGBT Mafia!

James Madison

We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.

Benjamin Franklin

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Whereas true religion and good morals are the only solid foundations of public liberty and happiness . . . it is hereby earnestly recommended to the several States to take the most effectual measures for the encouragement thereof. --- Comment: Note that the States should act (a republic) - not that Uncle Sam should force action!

Benjamin Rush

          The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be aid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments. Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.

We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government, that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by the means of the Bible. For this Divine Book, above all others, favors that equality among mankind, that respect for just laws, and those sober and frugal virtues, which constitute the soul of republicanism.

By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects. . . . It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published. . . . All systems of religion, morals, and government not founded upon it [the Bible] must perish, and how consoling the thought, it will not only survive the wreck of these systems but the world itself.

Patrick Henry

The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.

William Penn

If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him… Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants. – (Penn was imprisoned for writing this tract.)

Daniel Webster

If we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.

Noah Webster

The Christian religion, in its purity, is the basis, or rather the source of all genuine freedom in government. . . . and I am persuaded that no civil government of a republican form can exist and be durable in which the principles of that religion have not a controlling influence.

Charles Carroll

Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime & pure, [and] which denounces against the wicked eternal misery, and [which] insured to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments. --- Comment: The death  of morals leads to the death of duration; and, historically the US is a newborn babe.

Robert Winthrop

Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled either by a power within them or by a power without them; either by the Word of God or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible or by the bayonet.

          And finally, for the ladies out there J:

Abigail Adams

A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men? Can he be a patriot who, by an openly vicious conduct, is undermining the very bonds of Society? . . . The Scriptures tell us ‘righteousness exalteth a Nation.' --- Comment: Proverbs 14:34 - Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.

 

Closing Comment: The central theme is clear - the freedom and liberty of the people of the US was based and built on a Constitutional Republic and the people would have to maintain a biblical moral standard to have any hope of staying a free people. As biblical morals collapse so too will the US.

I love my country and the form of government it was built on; but, I fear the modern monster it has become. It is as a servant of satan and an enemy of YHWH and of freedom. There is a reason 1 in 4 Americans would support their State seceding from the federal government - which is a State right granted in the Constitution.

The end of the US before the end of the world is not inevitable - even if it takes a Second American Revolution of these United States. The people must take the pen from the hand of the government. The pen now, or the sword soon - or the death of the US is, then, inevitable.

Passing the Buck?

THOUGHT for the WeeK

          These days it seems, at least in the US, that more than a few of the “older generation” complain about the younger generation’s lack of literary and verbal skills - especially in regards to communication. The older folks point to the degradation of language skills caused by technology - especially computerization of learning and communication. Examples abound. It seems younger folks depend on “spell check” instead of learning how to spell correctly. Worse yet, the younger folks abbreviate almost obsessively; and, when texting, use more abbreviations and smiley faces than punctuation marks. Neither generation may care for my take on this issue.

          The first thing the older generation needs to consider is that younger folks, though inherently striving to make their own mark, also, especially when very young, depend heavily on being “lead by example”. The society the older folk allowed to develop has, for the most part, utterly failed to create worthy examples. They are learning (I hope) a lesson Obama still has yet to grasp - you cannot lead from behind. It does not help when the same US president claims words do not mean what they say (e.g. the Islamic State is not a State and is not Islamic - even when the “Islamic State” is comprised of over 90% Islamists and has more land area than the nation of Belgium).

It does not help when a US president (Clinton), in an effort to avoid responsibility, plays semantics with the definition of “is”. Clinton went on to assert that “sex” is only “sex” when it involves intercourse. I still remember the discussion that ensued with my young daughter at the time - as if it was not challenging enough to counter what the schools were doing to brainwash her on the issue of acceptable sexual practices.

The younger generation, or at least a large portion of it, has been taught by examples like these that language usage is as fluid as the definition of right and wrong - which is being taught by these same examples. They have been taught that nothing is fixed or carved in stone; and, that whether something is good or bad is all a matter of personal preference - in language as well as in life.

          Sadly, due to the abundance of such poor examples, the younger generation has not, for the large part, learned that the “House of Freedom” is a building with more to it. Individual rights are but one cornerstone of that house; but, with individual rights come individual responsibilities. Ever heard the adages “Your rights end at the end of your nose” or “Your rights end where mine begin.”? The other two cornerstones are social in nature - social rights which come with social duties - e.g. the right to protest is not the right to riot. These four cornerstones create a house of freedom we can all live in. Consider:  expressing an opinion (individual right) in or to the public (social right), and, not silencing opposing opinions (individual responsibility) while ensuring opposing views are not suppressed (social duty). This is true tolerance which the liberals cannot tolerate! All of this was built upon bedrock of greater importance - Biblical morals.

          If there is no right or wrong there are no “rights”. The law does nothing to stop folks from denying each other their “rights”. If it did there would be no crime - it only reacts after the event. The law cannot stop a would-be rapist - morals can. Animals have no morals. If we were “just higher order animals” then there would be no wrong in rape - it would just be a natural case of procreation. The law does not prevent murder - morals do. Is not murder just a natural example of the strong over the weak? But, thankfully, we are more than animals; and, there is a right and wrong. It is defined by our Creator - YHWH.

          So, for the younger folks, if you really want to prove your independence and assert your freedom then show it by ignoring all the bad examples and teach your children better than you have been taught. Words do have assigned meanings for a reason. (Read George Orwell’s 1984. Some old folks found it funny, some scary, and apparently too few thought it could start coming true the way it has.) Make yourselves worthy of the freedoms you have inherited - before they are all lost; and, remember that without YHWH you would have neither life nor freedom. It does not take a village to raise a child - it takes a set of parents with a set of morals! Child education is a parent’s job - not the States!

          For the older folks, too many parents in previous generations parted from the job instead of doing their part. Admit blowing it, so far, by having allowed this degradation of morals and freedoms to happen on your watch. Then quit just complaining and do something about it. Grow up, show some backbone, and “lead by example” (listen to YHWH) - you are not dead yet! If you will not help then get out of the way and give the younger generation a chance - maybe they’ll have more courage!

          For everyone, worldwide, until YHWH sends His Son again our future is in our own hands, young and old alike. Many of our forefathers fought and died for freedom - we all owe that gift to our children. Many of our forefathers did this so they could pass down their knowledge of YHWH. This we must do too - with or without freedom, with or without abbreviations or punctuation.

          The language of freedom and morals may change - the need for both will not. (No matter how ignorant, degenerate, or immoral the citizens or presidents of the US become!)

          PS - A small addendum to last week’s thought that ties in here: Research the “Atoms for Peace” program - the US gave Iran its first nuclear reactor; and, in 70’s, competed with the Germans and French to nuclearize Iran! Just one more of the legacies older generations left the younger ones to deal with!

QUOTE of the Week

“The follower of Christ, whose service means an ever-growing understanding of his teaching, and an ever-closer fulfillment of it, in progress toward perfection, cannot, just because he is a follower, of Christ, claim for himself or any other that he understands Christ's teaching fully and fulfills it. Still less can he claim this for any body of men.” -- Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You

          COMMENT: No matter when or where we were born the Truth does not change - only our understanding does. I posit that the greatest impact our “earthly situation” has on Truth is our own exposure to it and our search for it. Freedom to be exposed to, to search for, and to learn the Truth is a blessing that comes with responsibilities. The greatest responsibility is ensuring the spread of the knowledge of the Truth - in present generations and for generations to come.

NOTE: I would posit that understand the teachings of Jesus is the easier of the two - after all, as Jesus promised, we have the Holy Spirit to teach us all things - all we need to do is listen to Jesus and the Holy Spirit over the teachings of other men such as Saul of Tarsus, the popes, etc. The harder part is having the initial courage before men in the “ever-closer fulfillment of it”. For those with true love and obedience toward YHWH He will grant His grace (unmerited help) to us so we can have and maintain this courage - for ourselves and for others.

DID YOU KNOW

My research shows that:

The Old Testament (Original Testament) was written in the Ancient Hebrew Language - which had no punctuation.

Chapters were not introduced to the Bible until 1238 by Cardinal Hugo de S. Caro

Verse divisions were not added to the Bible until 1551 by Robertus Stephanus.

There is a world famous modern day poet who never used capitalization in his poetry - known as

e.e.cummings.

          BTW* Theodore Roosevelt warned us of the dangers of the hyphen. I highly recommend young and old alike take the time to look that up! It could do a world of good. IMHO

 

BTW - By The Way

IMHO - In My Humble Opinion

J

         

America - Ignorance or Arrogance

Thought for the Week

 

Media attention of Middle East seems to focus on Jews versus “Palestinians” - and favors the latter. Never have I seen a news media program, by any channel, expound on the simple fact that the entire region is peopled by folks who are still very tribal by nature. Outside of international political dialogues there is really no historical justification for the terms Palestinian or Iraqi, or Syrian, or Jordanian, etc. None of these terms reflect the same people that the term historically (if ever) applied to. The nations of the Middle East, like those of Arica, employ borders which are recent inventions (20^th century) haphazardly imposed by European powers on the native peoples of the region (Look up the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement - a “secret” agreement between Great Britain and France and Russia regarding the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire). The national borders in the Middle East do not coincide with any historical, tribal, ethnic, religious, or political boundary of the peoples in the region.

The Sunni and Shia Muslims are now going at it just like the Tutsis and Hutus recently did in Rwanda. The primary difference for the West is, regardless of whom among the Muslims wins, all Christians and Westerners will be next on the hit list - as they are now only more so. To support either side against the other now is just training and supplying a future enemy. Sadly, the West has a bad habit of continuing to apply this failed policy - over and over again ad naseum.

It has been said that those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them - as Solomon said there is nothing new under the Sun. The West seems incapable of learning from history - ancient or modern. If our leaders bothered to learn a little history about the region we would all be better off. The Bible is an excellent source for the ancient history of the tribalism of the region; and, Seven Pillars of Wisdom is an excellent source for more recent history reflecting the same issue.

          The US militarily supplied and trained Afghanistan against the Soviet Union - then went to war with Afghanistan (and things are not looking to good concerning Russia these days either). The US militarily supplied Iran for decades. Research the “Atoms for Peace” program - the US gave Iran its first nuclear reactor; and, in 70’s, competed with the Germans and French to nuclearize Iran! Then, in the 80’s, the US militarily supplied Iraq against Iran. Then went to war with Iraq in the 90’s and again after 9/11 (and now war with Iran is probably only a matter of time). The US has supplied Saudi Arabia with top of line military hardware and training for decades. The 9/11 hijackers where Saudis - as was Osama Bin Laden. The US has militarily supplied Jordan (as well as trained them with our own Special Forces) ever since Jordan kicked out the “Palestinian People” in 1970. Many Jordanians are backing either Hezbollah or ISIS - prominent Iraqi’s, of the “Saddam era” Ba’ath Party, are living high on the hog in Jordan and are backing ISIS.

The US has recently been financially and politically backing the “Palestinian People” against Israel; yet, more “Palestinian People” are from lands in Jordan than from lands in Israel and nobody is trying to force Jordan to return that “homeland” to the Palestinians! Regardless, these are the same “Palestinian People” who have been and are “against” the US and the West. The “Palestinian People” supported the PLO - which conducted numerous terrorist acts against the West for several decades (e.g. Black September). The “Palestinian People” continue to support Hezbollah which has - and continues too - conduct numerous terrorist acts against the West (e.g. the bombing against US troops in Beirut in 1983). The “Palestinian People” supported Saddam Hussein against the West during Desert Storm and the Gulf War.

          Some may point to the old adage “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. Some may point to the Sadat era of Egypt; and, maybe Egypt could have helped but Obama turned his back on them when they went against an open enemy of the West - the Muslim Brotherhood! Israel is the only nation in the region that does not wish the demise of the US in the long run; and, they are the nation/people backed by YHWH!

Will the US and/or the West ever learn? Picking a Muslim “tribe” to support is about as effective as “cutting the head off the snake”. “Cutting off the snake’s head” to end the Islamist Jihad’s is akin to cutting off the head of a snake in Medusa’s hair. Did killing Hussein “fix” things, or killing Bin Laden, or the death of Kaddafi, etc.? Just take a look at the number of “leaders” of ISIS over the last decade!

NOTE: Ironically the pro-“Palestinian” crowd never asks Jordan or Lebanon or Syria to give up land to the “Palestinians”. “Palestinians” as a people, are comprised of many tribal factions. They historically lived in present day Lebanon, Israel, Syria, and Jordan - but the Arabs of these nations do not want them - wrong tribes. The population of “Palestine”, when Britain and France carved up the region, ethnically consisted of dozens of tribes of Arabs and Jews; and, they religiously consisted of several other sub-factions (Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox Christians; Sunni, Shia, and other versions of Islam, and a host of “smaller” beliefs). “Palestine” has never really had a single, uniform, clearly defined, ethnicity or religion or area of land.

The logic of a “Palestinian” killing an Israeli Jew to get back “his people’s land” is worse than the convoluted logic of a Mexican citizen (of Spanish and Native American decent) killing an US citizen (of Native American decent) to get back “his people’s land” - land the Spanish took from the Apaches, who probably took it from yet another tribe (e.g. the Anasazi).

 

Quote of the Week

 

Your good and my good, perhaps they are different, and either forced good or forced evil will make a people cry with pain. Does the ore admire the flame which transforms it? There is no reason for offence, but a people too weak are clamant over their little own. Our race will have a cripple's temper till it has found its feet.' Prince Feisal, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T.E. Lawrence

 

. . . war upon rebellion was messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T.E. Lawrence

 

COMMENT: T.E. Lawrence appears to have been one of the few Westerners in a position of influence in the last century to have understood the people of the Middle East. Seven Pillars of Wisdom should be required reading for any Westerner interested or involved in foreign policy making. It appears few if any in Washington DC have ever done so; and sadly, their arrogance and ignorance will continue to be paid for in blood by better men than they.

 

Did You Know

 

During Ottoman rule the term Syria was used to designate the approximate area included in present-day Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel and part of Turkey (the Hatay area). After World War I, in 1920, Ottoman Syria became the Arab Kingdom of Syria, which in 1938 became a Republic (and France gave Turkey the Hatay area), and in 1946 became independent. One of its first acts as a new nation was to attack Israel (1948). Since then it has either been ruled by a dictator (Assad, Ba’ath Party), been in a civil war - or, like now, both.

After World War I Iraq was carved out of the Ottoman Empire and was under British control. In 1932 it was made the Kingdom of Iraq. In 1958 the king was deposed and it became the Republic of Iraq. Since 1963 it has either been ruled by a dictator or been in a civil war (in 1979 it was Saddam Hussein, Ba’ath Party). The Kurdish people of the region have been, and are, trampled on by the Turks and the Iraqis.

After the Ottomans lost WWI France divided up “Lebanon” and Syria to the benefit (in French eyes) of Beirut and the detriment of Damascus. Lebanon gained independence from Vichy France in 1943 but since France was under German rule the Germans used it until the British took control from them so the French did not actually recognize Lebanese independence until 1946. From then until 1968 Lebanon was the most stable country in the region (though in 1958, 5,000 United States Marines were sent to Beirut).

After the Arab-Israeli War in 1967 Israeli/Arab/Palestinian war refugees started arriving. In 1968 Palestinian militants began to use southern Lebanon as a launching pad for attacks on Israel; and, following the Palestinian’s defeat in the Jordanian civil war in 1970 thousands of Jordanian Palestinians regrouped in Lebanon. Egypt and other Arab nations forced Lebanon (then under “Christian” leadership) to turn over control of a large portion of the southern part of the country to the Palestinians. So many Palestinians invaded Lebanon that civil war eventually broke out in 1975 and continued until the 1990’s. This civil war included occupation of parts of Lebanon by both Israel and Syria. Israel entered and withdrew several times (e.g. 1992 and 2000) but part of the territory is still under dispute. Syria stayed until 2005. Open warfare broke out again with Israel in 2005 and 2006 and sporadic fighting continues as Syrian and Iranian backed forces (Hezbollah) use Lebanon as a base to harass and attack Israel.

Although Israel formed as a nation state again in 1948 it had been in the making since the 19^th Century. Jews became a majority in Jerusalem around 1866 and formed a Jewish agricultural settlement in the region 1878. In 1909 the first kibbutz was established in the region and Tel Aviv was founded as a Jewish speaking city. The 1917 Balfour Declaration, which followed the Sykes-Picot Agreement in 1916, is viewed by many historians as an endorsement by Great Britain for the reestablishment of a Jewish nation. The 1922 Mandate for Palestine, by Britain and the League of Nations, carved up Transjordan and set up about three-fourths of the area for “Palestinians” and about one-fourth as a national home for Jews.

          Since 1948 the borders of Israel have been very fluid due to the many wars with neighboring Arab nations. The West Bank, held by Jordan and not the “Palestinian People”, was taken away by Israel after one such war. A similar story applies for many of the other disputed land areas such as the Golan Heights (from Syria) and the Gaza strip (from Egypt). Many Arabs (“Palestinians”, Yemenis, etc.) are Jewish and many Israeli Jews are Arabs.

          This list could go on ad naseum. Other Middle East nations, such as Jordan, Kuwait, Yemen, UAE, Qatar, etc, are also recent fabrications as national political entities which largely ignore the historical tribalism of the region.

          Iran is a whole other can of worms; and, though they are Muslim, they are Persian, not Arab.

Comment: To add insult to injury the US (e.g. the State Department, et al), especially recently, has focused on employing and deploying more women and LGBT/homosexuals to represent us. This is not only an insult in Arab nations it is illegal as well! Even the US military has shown this ignorant political correctness ever since Desert Shield/Storm in the deployment of women in the Civil Affairs troops allegedly used to “Secure the Peace” - I witnessed this first hand in 1990/91!

For an idea of the future see this very informative link on ISIS. (Maybe forward it to Obama - he does not seem to be aware of the information).