We seem to have moved closer to ‘a third world war’.

A main cause of the present conflict in the Middle East, as in some previous confrontations, would seem to be a resentment that is felt by some other ‘peoples’ towards the presence and even the existence of Israel.

The case has been put that in the quite recent creation of Israel as a ‘homeland’ or ‘country’ for one ‘people or ‘nation’, the Jews, part of the preexisting ‘homeland’ or ‘country’ of another ‘people’ or ‘nation’ was used. If this is so, it is an injustice, surely?

A simple remedy for this would be to fairly reapportion the whole territory as ‘homelands’ for the two ‘peoples’. Could not the major powers of today do this?

Then there is this consideration. Some commentators on the present crisis talk of what is called ‘antisemitism’ as ‘the oldest hatred in the world’ and imply that this antipathy has always, over the centuries and in many lands, been wholly unjustified and even a ‘conspiracy’. But can this be true?

Might some of the prejudice against the Jewish ‘people’ be a reaction against the historical claim that the Jews are ‘God’s chosen people’? For indeed, it may be asked: Does such a claim ‘make sense’? Is the claim one of ‘truth’ and ‘fairness’?

If whatever ‘Force’ that created our ‘universe’ has ‘mind’, ‘personality’, and a ‘sex’ or ‘gender’, would ‘He’ or ‘She’ choose any one ‘people’, of this or any other world, above or before all others? Surely, to do so would not ‘make sense’? It would not be ‘true’ or ‘fair’ ~ would it?

A little poem comes to mind:

How odd of God
To choose the Jews.

To which may be added:

If we do not see,
We choose to lose.

Let us say that this has been written by ‘a child of this world’.