Interested in discerning King Solomon’s wisdom how he managed to obtain peace in the Mid-East during his reign compared to our contemporary times?
The Chicago Tribune article titled: Cease -fire holds through 1st full day, has been reported numerous repeated times in the last century, The Bible even records the same repeat conflict existed 3000 years ago.
The Purpose of This Post
Is to once again relate the ancient proverb of the wisdom used by King Solomon to obtain peace vs. the methods used by ancient conquerors such as King David, Alexander the Great, Muhammad, etc. in history, vs. the very costly wasteful methods being used in our contemporary times, and an idiom.
King Solomon
If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. (Proverb 26:21)
Meaning of Idiom ‘Never Bite the Hand That Feeds You’
To bite the hand that feeds you is to attack, harm, show ingratitude toward, or otherwise turn against someone who is helping you.
What’s My Point?
The Bible records that previous to King Solomon, Israel believed in killing every man woman a child who warred against them such as the Amalekites. Alexander the Great and Muhammad, who gave a choice to inhabitants of cities they invaded to either surrender or they would do the same, kill every man, woman, and child.
King Solomon practiced the above proverb instead and traded to make use of shared prosperity to maintain peace.
The Bible New Testament of Christianity preaches love, charity and prayer for enemies. Problem is not everyone understands or believes in Christianity.
My Point is the Mid-East War has a history of war for over 5000 years.
If we compare the cost of the 4000 rockets Hamas fired against Israel of 300 – 800 dollars each for the low range and the cost of Patriot Missles used of 50,000 to 100,000 each to defend against the rockets, the cost for the rockets alone range for Hamas Rockets totals between $1,200,000 to $3,200,000 for Hamas/Iran and $200,000,000 to 400,000,000 for Israel/USA.
Compare those costs to the amount of food which could have been spent by the seemingly endless conflicts being paid by both the USA and Iran.
In My Opinion,
President Joe Biden was silent in this latest two-week conflict in the news supposedly brokered by Egypt. However, my guess he made agreement to promise more USA tax funding’s or threatened to remove same to end the conflict again.
In my opinion, what the world needs now in addition to love is wisdom to end the wastefulness and destruction of wars in the Mid-East
In other words, we all need to wise up and discern the folly recorded in history and listen to the wisdom taught in the New Testament of the Bible.
You Decide
Will we ever wise up and start teaching and making use of the wisdom of the ancients instead of repeating the same follies of past generations over and over and over again in every new generation in recorded history.
If Interested
Read the Source Links below
Regards and goodwill blogging.
Source Links
Chicago Tribune Nation & World – AP – May 23,2021
IPost – How much does a harass rocket cost?
https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/how-much-does-hamass-rocket-arsenal-cost-668317
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King Solomon, ISIS, Amalekites, Fools (u/d) – Rudy u Martinka (rudymartinka.com)
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Rudy u Martinka 
Rudy, a post I made today, provides some of the steps necessary to arrive at an inner peace,the most lasting form of peace, between hearts is where the real peace lies. Short term fix’s are short term, and while many are happy for the ceasing of hostilities, one must wonder why there was this tension anyway; neo conservatives in Israel had a hold over BB, who was trying to do a double job of sorts, reduce hamas while appeasing the extremists, its partly worked, but there is a lasting peace in the pipeworks; the new ones, the young generation are not basted in fear and retribution, they want to live lives, not hide, and the young everywhere are adopting, we dont have to put up with it anymore attitude, that’s dead/ the youth will build their own future, it’s only a matter of time. when you work and eat with your enemy, you begin to understand, both have opinions,as solomon would say, is, wisdom is listening to the now while learning from the past,amen.
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Bwcarey
Thanks for your comment. I read your post and hope your optimism for the future becomes a reality. Yes, Children can be a path to change the future.
Cardinal Cupic statement was made today in the Chicago Tribune article read as follows:
“Racism is not something one is born with, it’s taught and we need to do everything possible to break that cycle and schools can be an important way to do so,”
I frankly don’t know how or what is being taught to children in the war zones in the Mid-East.
I frankly think the present path in the public schools in the USA is questionable to attempt to eliminate racism without teaching religion. If interested, check out this link from a Citizen Tom recent post.
https://omny.fm/shows/the-christian-outlook-topics-for-todays-believer-1/life-lessons-for-prosperity-don-kroah-with-dr-ever
Hopefully, school choice or school vouchers will become a reality in the future of the USA and a path to
“break that cycle.” In both the Mid-East and the USA.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/chicago-tribune-sunday/20210523/281668257880597
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