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(8h) PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel

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Israel's PM Netanyahu, in religious terminology one of the " devils" on this planet. He faces corruption charges but refuses to face justice. And thus on 20/04/2020 he reached a deal with his opponent Mr Gantz to form a new Israeli government so the corruption charges are postponed . But already observers feared the Palestinians will suffer greatly as President Trump's peace deal may be implemented that allows the annexation of large areas of the Palestinian territory, something the Palestinians can't accept. Should it not be a worldwide agreement reached via the UN or is this organisation too neutral?   Indeed, Netanyahu, never ever as Israel's PM did he take an opportunity to reach a peace agreement with the people whose land the Israelis occupy after the bad treatment by Europeans during WWII and what resulted in the accelerated return of Jews to their "promised land" about 2000 years after they were thrown out of it. A land that equals a Go...

(08d) Noah - understanding the story?

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A few months ago, the film 'Noah' came out in cinemas. I haven't seen the movie but the film started some discussions about Noah's role whereby people question whether he was 'the good guy' as I ones did. And although I wrote already about Noah, as I think I now start to understand the story I write something more worked out (I never imagined I would ever feel the need to try to explain these stories in the hope it may prevent some people from following extremists although, it can be dangerous reading others explanation in some countries ). Of course, my interpretation can be wrong (up to you to decide). Here I go ... Ark of Noah? Summary of the story The story of Noah is about a person who built a large boat to survive according to the story the biggest flood ever on Earth and this together with some family members and seven pairs of ritually clean and one pair of ritually unclean animals of each species. The flood was ordered by God to destroy the ...