Quote from: K-Dog on Jan 09, 2024, 09:33 AMBut how many people take the mental leap to say we are all of the same tribe? Not so many. Had I never met someone with a spark of enlightenment in their eye would I? We are of the same tribe is an original thought.
tribe
/trīb/
noun: tribe; plural noun: tribes
1. a social division in a traditional society consisting of families or communities linked by social, economic, religious, or blood ties, with a common culture and dialect, typically having a recognized leader.
We are all of the same species, not the same tribe.
Far as which tribe God chooses goes, you don't find that out until the war is over. When it's finished, God chose the winner. However, a war isn't over until one side surrenders, a peace treaty is signed or everybody on one side is dead. Since neither the Israelis or the Palestinians will surrender and so far seem unwilling to sit down and discuss terms for a treaty, that leaves only Door #3 to determine God's Will.
Now, the existence of the UN does provide another alternative which they have done on numerous occassions in Africa during Tribal Warfare, which is to send in "Peacekeepers" However, just about nobody wants to send their own soldiers in between these two tribes, since they'll probably get shot by both sides. So instead arms merchants send weapons and ammo to both sides so they can keep fighting, leading eventually to outcome #3.
Now, if Israel was in danger of losing at some point, they have The Bomb and would surely use it, but it probably wouldn't kill everybody and the area around Ground Zero wouldn't be very good for settlement for a while. So this doesn't solve the problem either.
In WWI, the French and Germans were at a stalemate for years, periodically shooting at each other across no-man's land. Only once the FSoA dropped in to tip the balance of power were the French able to make headway. This conflict looks likely to continue until one side or the other gets reinforcements. That would likely kick off WWIII.
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