From: rking164@comcast.net   
      
   In the perfect world  the existing residents of Israel and the residents of   
   Palestine and Gaza would live together in a single state exercising no   
   discrimination and equal rights for all, but how far fetched would that idea   
   promoted by optimal thinking    
   actually go in this sinful world?   
      
   11 Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the people of Israel.   
   They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’   
   12 Therefore prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord   
   says: My people, I am going    
   to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the   
   land of Israel. 13 Then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord, when I   
   open your graves and bring you up from them. 14 I will put my Spirit in you   
   and you will live, and I    
   will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the Lord have   
   spoken, and I have done it, declares the Lord.’”   
      
   One Nation Under One King   
   15 The word of the Lord came to me: 16 “Son of man, take a stick of wood and   
   write on it, ‘Belonging to Judah and the Israelites associated with him.’   
   Then take another stick of wood, and write on it, ‘Belonging to Joseph (that   
   is, to Ephraim)    
   and all the Israelites associated with him.’ 17 Join them together into one   
   stick so that they will become one in your hand.   
      
   18 “When your people ask you, ‘Won’t you tell us what you mean by   
   this?’ 19 say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am going   
   to take the stick of Joseph—which is in Ephraim’s hand—and of the   
   Israelite tribes associated with    
   him, and join it to Judah’s stick. I will make them into a single stick of   
   wood, and they will become one in my hand.’ 20 Hold before their eyes the   
   sticks you have written on 21 and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign   
   Lord says: I will take    
   the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them   
   from all around and bring them back into their own land. 22 I will make them   
   one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. There will be one king   
   over all of them and they    
   will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)