The children of Ishmael [Arabs].
Daniel Pipes says something about them, but so does the old
Tanakh.
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Quote:Fighting and Hugging in the Middle East
by Daniel Pipes
March 19, 2021
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This pattern of fighting and hugging is well known to Middle Easterners. The PLO's Khalid al-Hasan
called it "Arab nature," explaining that "Arab history has never known a final estrangement. It is full of agreements and differences. When we differ and then grow tired of differing, we agree. When we grow tired of agreeing, we differ."[7] Faruq Qaddumi, another PLO leader, found that "Attitudes in the Arab region change like desert sands in the wind – building up and then swiftly disappearing."[8] Hussein Sumaida, a refugee from Saddam Hussein's Iraq, used the same analogy:
"There are no such things as allies in the Middle East. There are only shifting sands."[9]
Abd al-Hamid Zaydani, an Islamist leader in Yemen, put it succinctly: "Either we unite, or we fight."[10] Barzan Ibrahim at-Takriti, Saddam Hussein's brother, agreed: "Either we have full unity, or a general destructive war will be the only alternative." The usual political relationship, he said, "begins with hugs and kisses and ends up in disputes and war."[11]
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What explains this extreme political volatility? As brilliantly explained by Philip Salzman,[17] it results from the tribal ethos summed up by the well-known adage, "I against my brother, I and my brothers against my cousins, I and my brothers and my cousins against the world." This premodern mentality encourages abrupt changes.
Until tribalism dies out, Middle Eastern politics will continue to be characterized by amorality, fluidity, temporariness, inconsistency, and contradiction.
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The children of Ishmael [Arabs].
The bible long, long ago predicted this particular nature of the children of Ishmael. !!
Genesis 16:11
And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
That pretty accurate description of the future nature and situation of the children of Ishmael [Arabs],
was actually recorded in an ancient document, around 3,400 years ago.
Fancy that.
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But it was the children of Isaac [and Jacob, 'Israel'], who were to become His chosen.
Which is a script, which Arab peoples have always resented.
Genesis 17:20
And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.
Genesis 21:12
And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
13 And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
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ON THE CONTENTS OF SCRIPTUREHuman beings choose, to discount the authority of God's Word, at our peril.
All we need do is look around us, at
the Godless and perilous state of this world, at this moment.
And it is all the work of our own hands.
Deuteronomy 25:13
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy 30:19
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
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