Now that I am awake at 5:00 am every day, I hear this voice talking to me on CHED and almost daily it is about the issues in Palestine. Today I decided to figure out who I have been listening to and it turns out to be George Noory and his radio show Coast to Coast. Who knew that I was now one of those listeners who believe in Aliens and grand conspiracy theories? What has been interesting is to listen to another perspective on the whole middle east crisis or perhaps lack there of. Not to dismiss in any way the suffering which has and is taking place in Lebanon, but it is interesting to find out that most of the country is in normal operation mode, as it is only the boarder country closest to Israel that has faced any conflict. What is clearly absent even from the discussions that I am hearing early in the mornings is a spiritual dynamic and understanding of the conflict.
Lets be honest, the middle east conflict between Jews and Muslims is thousands of years old. That little piece of "promised land" has been fought over since God first promised it to Abraham. This is in no way to condone the fighting, but I think international involvement at any level without a proper understanding of the long historical roots attached to the land is imprudent. The Jewish perspective on the land is directly linked to the Messiah returning and restoring Israel to her former glory of Solomon's days, where the world visited Jerusalem to see her splendor. So it is no wonder that Israel is absolutely committed to defending its borders. Unfortunately, the promise remains tied to the land without an understanding that Christ is the Messiah and became the promise in substitution for the land originally laid out before Abraham.
George also asked a question this morning though which was tied to a recent poll of Canadians who were asked whether the Canadian policy should be one of support for either side in the conflict. He was interested that so many Canadians took a position of neutrality towards the middle-eastern conflict. In fact, the poll found that 13% of Canadians adopted a neutral position while another 52% were undecided; how decidedly Canadian. He was wondering why we as a nation are so in the middle of such an important issue. I personally think that Canadians have become largely like their American cousins of years past, and more specifically in the times preceding WWII. The Americans were indifferent to the global struggle in those days because it didn't directly involve them, and only after Pearl Harbor did the Americans enter the frey and then with a frenzy. In the same way, I think Canadians have become indifferent to many of the global issues facing us today, as these issues, regardless of there severity, seemingly have no direct impact on our all too busy lives. I think that most Canadians believe that it is good that we are peacekeepers, so long as it doesn't effect me or my family members directly. I wonder where Canadians would fall if there was another Hitler on the prowl, actually gobbling up other countries in Western Europe? Would we care? In the past our link to the UK and our historical roots made us care deeply about what happened across the big pond, now I wonder if we would respond as we did in the face of a global tyrant so many years ago. Don't get me wrong, I don't support running around the dessert chasing the taliban either - you would think we would have learned from the fate of the Russians in the 80's - but at some point the world does need to wake up and pay attention to what is going on around it, doesn't it? Ah well, more ramblings of an exhausted coffee guy.
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