Peace in the Middle East

IT SEEMS that the acceptable measure of warfare nowadays is to war without measure.

Incidentally, this is also the measure by which our LORD teaches us we must love.
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HOW MUST we view Hamas, my beloved friend and constant companion?

Beloved of God, it is a saddening thought that idealistic and pious people are being brought together by war more than by peace because that road leads nowhere. And I am not talking about just Muslims - I'm talking about any human being who begins to believe in the seemingly easy proposition brought upon their will by those who have become convinced in their hearts that the destruction of other human beings and of entire nations in exile time is the way of our common destiny as Mankind without deeper consideration to the actual nature of war.

If one should study about black holes in the physical universe - such is war - an imploded star. And the blindness that ultimately leads to annihilation inside of its deadly gravitational embrace is the reason why black holes are invisible to the naked eye - because it is empty of promise, its victory is a lie. Believe in it and all things in your life and the reality itself that surrounds you and those who are around you will get sucked into an endless and futile struggle.

It is very easy to destroy things but creation is the mandate of heaven and peace is the one will of the absolute defense therefore, destruction is only fruitful to All if it brings about transformation and growth, not poverty and despair.

I guarantee you, my beloved friend and constant companion, in the strongest of terms possible that the path of war is not the ascendant mountain path that our nations and their responsible states must take to survive the tribulation that is yet to come. This is a time to prepare the shelter of our generations - the generations of life, the only shelters that we have as human beings, the shelters of each our endevors of Country.

While I do not and will never approve of the methods that inflict needless and insdiscriminate harm upon our civilian populations, target our holy innocents and blindly propagate the conflagration of war - I will also never fail to recognize nor willingly abandon the hope that is intrinsic to all human beings.

It is not the will of heaven at this time to convert the faiths of all people into one religion; that is a changeless and immovable mandate that neither angelic nor human worlds share with the one Beautiful but belong to Almighty God by Himself Alone, however, it is the purpose of our times together to convert the hope of the world into peace and turn the hearts of mankind towards life.

I recognize the hope that is embedded in the struggle of the Palestinian people as well as the hope that is enshrined in the founding of modern Israel. Hamas - despite those differences that shall remain differences - now contain within itself, an extension of that hope entrusted to it by the Palestinian electorate on behalf of the nameless, suffering Palestinian people. It is this hope that I recognize and it is through this hope that I call upon Hamas to stir itself to a remembrance of the things that are necessary to achieve the purpose entrusted to it by its own nation; to work with Fatah and Abu Mazen that Palestine may emerge at last as a complete nation-state.

Only upon this common ground of hope that is universally shared by our common humanity can the process of achieving a sustainable peace on behalf of all living things, past, present and future, continue - that nations may no longer labor in tears but in hopes enshrined in God and Country.

I also recognize the hope of Palestinian prisoners and of Sgt. Gilad Shalit but our hope must be forbearing for we do not see by a sight that is possessed by our unseeing but are only borrowers of the one Light that reflects in our hearts the way of our LORD ahead that our feet may find its way through the darkness of our exile. Neither do we own the wisdom that teaches us of the ways of our LORD nor the very life that everywhere leads us back to our God, how then must we hope, as we would like or as we should?

It is the intrinsic right of every prisoner to be treated as your own. Do not continue to seek to harm innocent civilians and uphold this right for Sgt. Shalit and for Palestinian prisoners as well those of you who truly live and breathe for God's peace. Recognize the need in their humanity and seek to obtain at the soonest their safe release to their families and friends.

Negotiate as soon as it is possible - on behalf of the nameless who are suffering the curse of war - the sustainable peace and always be mindful of the common grounds of your aspirations for each your own people which you will find, O elder Israel and unborn Palestine, only if you seek it in your heart of hearts, are one and the same hope.

And turn away from war.

Say peace to all the inhabited earth and dwell forever in the good will of heaven.
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Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.

Sancta Sanctis!

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.