{"id":33348,"date":"2023-10-11T19:33:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T02:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/?p=33348"},"modified":"2023-10-12T08:07:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T15:07:34","slug":"%d7%90%d7%99%d7%9f-%d7%a9%d7%9c%d7%95%d7%9d-%d7%91%d7%9e%d7%96%d7%a8%d7%97-%d7%94%d7%aa%d7%99%d7%9b%d7%95%d7%9f-no-peace-in-the-middle-east-hebrew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/%d7%90%d7%99%d7%9f-%d7%a9%d7%9c%d7%95%d7%9d-%d7%91%d7%9e%d7%96%d7%a8%d7%97-%d7%94%d7%aa%d7%99%d7%9b%d7%95%d7%9f-no-peace-in-the-middle-east-hebrew\/","title":{"rendered":"\u05d0\u05d9\u05df \u05e9\u05dc\u05d5\u05dd \u05d1\u05de\u05d6\u05e8\u05d7 \u05d4\u05ea\u05d9\u05db\u05d5\u05df \u2013 No Peace in the Middle East – Hebrew"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Introduction \u2013 The End of History, Identity<\/p>\n

Part 1 – We the people, Chapter 12<\/p>\n

Part 2 \u2013 Russian and Ukrainian Identity<\/p>\n

Part 3 \u2013 The End of the Story, Just War, The Spirit in Ukraine Moves<\/p>\n

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Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n

The End of History<\/em>, by Fukuyama [1]<\/a> was one of the primary reads when I was working on my Masters in International Relations (Boston University, 1992).\u00a0 Amazon writes on the End of History<\/em>\u2026Francis Fukuyama’s prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is as essential for a world fighting fundamentalist terrorists as it was for the end of the Cold War.<\/p>\n

His was book was debated then and certainly, in light of the Israeli \u2013 Hamas war, terrorism takes a front stage where liberal democracies face an existential threat.<\/p>\n

His book Identity<\/em>[2]<\/a> continues to provide rich debate and dialogue fodder.\u00a0 Fukuyama states that the drive to establish and protect political identities has caused, \u201cThe current dysfunction and decay of the American political system is related to the extreme and ever polarization of American politics, which has made routine governing an exercise in brinksmanship and threatens to politicize all the country\u2019s institutions\u201d (p.116).\u00a0 He goes on to say, \u201cThe rise of identity politics<\/strong> in modern liberal democracies is one of the chief threats that they face, and unless we can work our way back to more universal understandings of human dignity, we will doom ourselves to continuing conflict\u201d (p. 116).<\/p>\n

Part 1 \u2013 We the People<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Spring of this year Todd Henley asked me about a question about U.S. Immigration, in my answer I remember saying to him, \u201cWe the people\u201d did not originally include persons from Africa and China (and women)\u2013 \u201cWe\u201d meant white property owners.\u00a0 This basic \u201cMale, White Property Owner\u201d identity has wonderfully transitioned over time in the U.S.\u00a0 and Fukuyama describes how identities can and must change.<\/p>\n

In, \u201cWe the people\u201d chapter 12 Fukuyama uses Syria as \u201can extreme example of what happens when a country lacks a clear sense of national identity.\u00a0 He provides a succinct overview of the 2011 Arab Spring and brings to the fore the \u201cLoyalties to one\u2019s sect, ethnic group, or religion\u201d (p.124).\u00a0 This lesson continues in the Israeli war as the impact of Shia, Sunni, Lebanon, Syria, Gaza, and Israel are all colliding in a bloody contest. (Sidenote: perhaps it might be wise for us to identify the difference between the Palestinian individual from the Hamas militia?)<\/p>\n

His statement, \u201cWeak national identity has been a major problem in the greater Middle East, where Yemen and Libya have turned into failed states, and Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia have suffered from internal insurgency and chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a participant in Operation Desert Storm as part of the Coalition Provisional Authority, Directorate of Operations and Infrastructure, I can attest to the earnest endeavor taken by the Coalition to rebuild Iraq.\u00a0 However, our lack of understanding the \u201cidentities\u201d at play outside of the Green Zone, would lead to a failed effort.<\/p>\n

Attempting to replicate our restructuring programs for both Germany and Japan, the identities of both were substantially different from those in the Middle East.\u00a0 Post WWII the U.S. was dealing with\u00a0 populations that had a strong national identity.\u00a0 Fukuyama writes, \u201cPart of the reason they have been able to grow in such spectacular fashion in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries is that they did not have to settle internal questions of identity as they opened themselves up to international trade and investment\u201d (p. 125).<\/p>\n

Part 2 Russian and Ukrainian Identity<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fukuyama speaks to Russian and Ukrainian Identity in a you tube video, Russian and Ukrainian Identity with Francis Fukuyama, April 17, 2023 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rPlcES4eH5A.\u00a0 He mentions at the 35:35 minute mark that his dissertation was on Soviet Policy in the Middle East. \u00a0Fukuyama mentioned that in 2014 that he spent a lot of time in Kyiv working with leadership programs.\u00a0 In his talk, he quickly mentioned biological and racial nationalism (think Hitler) and scientific nationalism (whites are smarter than browns).<\/p>\n

Fukuyama states that identities can be \u201cSocially constructed\u201d are not biological, and encompass\"\"<\/a> narratives, stories custom, language which can be manipulated. \u00a0He states that political elites can shape identity and that clever elites do it without the public noticing.<\/p>\n

A case in point I share the information manipulation of Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban and Newly elected Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico. Both countries are now pro Putin and anti Ukraine.\u00a0 Our educated GoodSports Staff in both countries have swallowed the government propaganda hook, line and sinker.<\/p>\n

At video minute 48:06 Fukuyama highlights, \u201cShared trauma, more so than common success, shapes national identity.\u201d<\/em> \u00a0\u00a0Watching the Ukrainian\/Russian conflict, we see that the national will and identity of Ukrainians has been solidified by the conflict.<\/p>\n

Part 3 The End of the Story, So What?, The End of Times, The Spirit in Ukraine Moves <\/strong><\/p>\n

Estimates of the deaths and injuries for the Ukraine War is hovering near 500,000 people (both sides included). \u00a0In his failed view of \u201ca larger Russian Identity\u201d Putin\u2019s grab for Ukraine has cost his nation dearly and in the fire of battle has concreted the Ukrainian national identity forever.\u00a0 The nostalgia for a Russian Fatherland is forever erased for Ukrainians who continue to fight and who have lost loved ones in the battle.<\/p>\n

From a Biblical Long view, the Middle East political and spiritual situation will not be resolved until the Second Coming.\u00a0 The failure of the Jews to eliminate the various tribes when they took the land of \u201cmilk and honey\u201d could be argued to be a reason for the Israeli War today.<\/p>\n

In the short term, they will secure their southern border, and a variation of some sort of reoccupation of Gaza will emerge.\u00a0 Innocent, men, women and children will suffer and die because of the sins of those in power. Collateral damage, a horribly innocuous term, will ride the stories for both nations.\u00a0\u00a0 Lebanon will have to decide if they want to invade themselves, while Iran urges both Hamas and Hezbollah on (there will be reckoning).<\/p>\n

So what? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Simon Walker issued a warning that in the face of evil that we may have to revisit \u201cHoly Violence.\u201d \u00a0Dr. Clark briefly mentioned \u201cJust War.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Mankind has traveled this path before, and Holy Men have argued this concept as each episode of violence emerges.\u00a0 \u201cWhat is the position of the church on \u2026.(name your war). \u201c\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Good Kill: Just War and Moral Injury[3]<\/a>, by Dr. Marc LiVecche, (Amazon Review)\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201dThe just war tradition, a moral framework for thinking about war that flows out of our Greco-Roman and Hebraic intellectual traditions, is grounded in the basic truth that killing comes in different kinds. While some kinds of killing, like murder, are always wrong, there are other kinds of killing that are morally neutral, such as unavoidable accidents, and still other kinds that are morally permitted–even, sometimes, obligatory. The Good Kill embraces this tradition to argue for the morality of killing in justified wars. Marc LiVecche does not deny the morally bruising realities of combat, but offers potential remedies to help our warfighters manage the bruising without becoming irreparably morally injured.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. LiVecche\u2019s book creates a space for dialogue and debate. \u00a0I fear that our cohort will have to wrestle with the issues surrounding a \u201cJust War\u201d as the speak into the lives of those congregations that the lead.<\/p>\n

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The End of Times<\/strong><\/p>\n

Accurate prediction of the \u201cEnd of Times\u201d is forever thwarted by scripture.<\/p>\n

Matthew 24:6 – You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.<\/p>\n

Matthew 24:36 – 36 \u201cBut about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.<\/p>\n

Revelation remains an enigma to most, but I have chosen a colorful chart to remind us of the sequence.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

However, since we are not to know when the end will come.\u00a0 Our efforts to expand the kingdom remains.<\/p>\n

As the Ukrainian, Russian, Israeli and Palestinian people die each day, what are we doing to meet the need spiritual and physical needs of those in pain?<\/p>\n

Here are some YouTube links for brothers in Christ who are working to expand the kingdom In Ukraine even as rockets fall from the sky.<\/p>\n

Christian Soccer league.. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x4MhVivdo7Y<\/a><\/p>\n

Child Development Center.. https:\/\/youtu.be\/P890FXCpeRA?si=WxuTpT1pnTajTw5o<\/a><\/p>\n

Evacuation and supply.. https:\/\/youtu.be\/_PXcr4BqIIw?si=oBCbxUupt5kJ6E8H<\/a><\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> Fukuyama, Francis. The End of History and the Last Man: With a New Afterword. 1. Free Press trade paperback ed., [Nachdr.]. New York, NY: Free Press, 2006.<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Fukuyama, Francis. Identity. S.I.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> LiVecche, Marc. The Good Kill: Just War and Moral Injury. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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