From: rking164@comcast.net   
      
   Perhaps 40 years to purify Holy Land laws before peace. The current generation   
   on both sides has been corrupted by the war induced hatred and resultant sins.   
   If all is to be dropped and forgiven so as to end fighting and release   
   captives, along with an    
   agreement to graduate in full integration, then we could see a purification of   
   Jerusalem. Perhaps some Jewish laws do need graceful modification.   
      
   Guilty parties still have our Creator t deal with. We need not to be the final   
   judge and executioner at the moment so we can spare potential embarrassment.   
      
   Clearly this voice might look the other way so as to allow the guilty party to   
   flee so that the lives of a few million may see some relief.   
   I see who the Americans favor to lead Gaza's rebuilding in peace with Israel.   
   I have no strng objection to competent qualified individuaks. Clearly the   
   existing Hamas leadership needs to flee to a safe location after the fighting   
   has stopped in Gaza.   
      
   The end of the fighting does require an end to second class citizenship for   
   non-Jews in Israel, and the end of all second class citizenship in both   
   Palestine and Israel. Then the national boundaries do not demarcate that much.   
      
   Palestinians can borrow to rebuild Gaza. If they rebuild responsibly, then   
   funding will grow. Such funding is the investment needed, but the investors do   
   not wish the investments to be a casulaty of war five years from now, so   
   agreement to nonhostility    
   is needed.   
      
      
   Mark 7   
    The Pharisees and some of the teachers of the law who had come from Jerusalem   
   gathered around Jesus 2 and saw some of his disciples eating food with hands   
   that were defiled, that is, unwashed. 3 (The Pharisees and all the Jews do not   
   eat unless they    
   give their hands a ceremonial washing, holding to the tradition of the elders.   
   4 When they come from the marketplace they do not eat unless they wash. And   
   they observe many other traditions, such as the washing of cups, pitchers and   
   kettles.   
      
   5 So the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, “Why don’t your   
   disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating   
   their food with defiled hands?”   
      
   6 He replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as   
   it is written:   
      
   “‘These people honor me with their lips,   
       but their hearts are far from me.   
   7 They worship me in vain;   
       their teachings are merely human rules.’   
      
   8 You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human   
   traditions.”   
      
   9 And he continued, “You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of   
   God in order to observe[c] your own traditions!   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)