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Matilda by Roald Dahl explores how to deal with an abusive situation. When faced with an escaped rhinoceros from the local zoo, one can do nothing, run away, get help, or fight. Has the property desctruction, maiming, and death during this fight solved the issue, or rather has it cut life short for many? Why can't one side choose to walk away? My proposal suggests the Israelis do just that. Is it thinkable to leave the holy land? Perhaps it is if packing it up and taking some of it along--at least the parts sacred to the religion.

peace proposal II

If Jews would think outside the box
To Arabs they’d sell Israel’s rocks
The deal would work well
Islam’s anger to quell
Since extremists does it outfox

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Andrea Dietrich

Date: 6/9/2024 1:09:00 PM

Sell them rocks? Arabs would never stand for that. Israel is the Jews" heritage. An unpopular opinion I suppose, but compromise is impossible against two opposing sides whose hatred goes back before the time of Christ

Duke Beaufort
Date: 6/10/2024 4:47:00 PM

Andrea, the idea was to raise money for the move. The stones that make up Jewish holy sites could be disassembled and moved to the new location. It only seems fair that the costs get shared.

Kim Rodrigues

Date: 6/4/2024 5:24:00 PM

See they already re-relocated. Remember where they were…no one wanted them, so they headed for their homeland…a little piece of the world. Men, women and children cruelly treated…murdered, and now even in America. It is the age old story. The question to ask is why? If they were chosen by God and through them was brought about the Savior of the world, who but the devil would be stark-raving mad. God chose this place for them. God had a plan. Before his salvation plan, man was doomed.

Duke Beaufort
Date: 6/10/2024 4:45:00 PM

Thanks Kim. I completely understand where you are coming from and what you are saying. I was thinking about a solution that could end the war, death, and despair. They could bring the soil over here and relocate the earthly portion as well as the structures. How deep does the promised land go? A peaceful solution seems unlikely at this point, but I hope I'm wrong and some sane ideas and people will prevail. I think insanity is doing the same thing that doesn't work over and over. Both sides seem to suffer from that.

I Am Anaya

Date: 5/10/2024 3:51:00 PM

Not just the Jews feel the Holy Land belongs to them, Palestinians also know that it is their Holy Land as well. Fundamentalists in any religion, even the evangelists sometimes think like Islam. Complicated world. We know the solution, it's always been there as well. Israelis, Palestinians, Arabs are all Semites, its Semites waring with Semites!

Duke Beaufort
Date: 5/12/2024 4:15:00 PM

Anaya, It does indeed belong to many religions. Therefore, whoever is in control of it should be willing to operate the place as a tourist attraction. It's a good way to make a lot of money and live well if there's peace.

Silent One

Date: 5/8/2024 1:33:00 PM

But there is a book which tells them that the land is promised to them.. as there are other books which say certain things also... so, there lies the issue.. I guess, there are other factors like imperialism and political corruption...

Duke Beaufort
Date: 5/12/2024 4:11:00 PM

SO, yes the "promised land." I believe that wealth redistribution can solve almost anything for most of the people there. I often ask myself, how deep down does a holy land go? They're welcome to dig down as far as they need to and take it with them. In other words, is it the dirt that's holy or the latitude/longitude? It's all so foolish really and not worth dying for when there's a perfectly safe solution. Just my strange take on all this to think that dying is preferable to a good move.

Ink Empress

Date: 5/8/2024 7:13:00 AM

Extremists in any religion, scare me and ever since the horrible war did begin, i see so many extremists on two sides and so violent too in how they express , and its just scary and terrifying! I hope it all gets settled before it turns into even more chaos and more children get killed. Im not one to talk about it in public but i do care and pray for peace for all. Sending you light always dear duke. Your peace proposals i wish some politicians would see and support

Duke Beaufort
Date: 5/12/2024 3:48:00 PM

IE, you are very kind and a good citizen of this earth! Extremism, as we see, begets evil. Most of the people I talk to have rationalized the situation. They have excuses for why one side or the other can do this or that, and they really believe that their excuses forgive the criminal behavior.

Sotto Poet

Date: 5/7/2024 2:52:00 PM

Here we have another excellent limerick that delves into an explosive proposal for settling the Holy Land conflict: the sale of Israeli pebbles to Arabs to console radicals and, maybe, reach a peaceful resolution. You have a way with words to explain complicated ideas thoroughly. You tackle a delicate and weighty subject by using rhyme and comedy. Words like "rocks," "deal," "extremists," and "think outside the box" highlight how plausible the suggestion appears.

Duke Beaufort
Date: 5/12/2024 3:14:00 PM

Thanks SP. The set of five limericks was written over a decade ago. Not much progress has occurred in that time. A lot of people do not want to compromise in an appropriate way. Sad really!

Vijay Pandit

Date: 5/7/2024 2:37:00 PM

I wish for a mutually agreeable solution. Two states side by side, perhaps.

Duke Beaufort
Date: 5/8/2024 6:02:00 AM

Vijay, yes that would be my preference too. However, in view of the brutality exhibited on October 7, 2023 and after, I don't see how they can have peace without physical separation. In Romeo and Juliet the Capulet and Montague families end their feud because they see the tragedy and understand the loss. Here, the controlling influence within each side revels and celebrates the brutality. Also settlement becomes difficult as we arm Israel as our military surrogate in the region and others arm/support the Palestinians.

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