Philistine land promised to Israel

[james armstrong]

Have you read the article in to-days Guardian "the merciful cricifixion" which queries the  attributes of the  vicious god of the  old hebrew writings?
It prompted me to write in reply:
“What vicious God would demand  Jesus sacrificed?” , Guardian, Easter Saturday.
The god of the old Jew ish writings. That’s what.god.
The god of the holocaust = complete burnings - of the sacrificed  male lambs
In the Passover ceremony  in which Jews remember the escape from Egypt 
 
 
The old Jewish writings are so full of racism, state violence and exhortations to ethnic cleansing  that they should be banned under the laws forbidding incitement to violence and  racial hatred. How offensive must it  be to people in the UAR  that the god in the  old Hebrew writings reportedly killed all the Egyptian eldest children ‘with a mighty hand’  and that  such literature is  so widely available throughout Europe?
How offensive to Palestinians who are daily intimidated by Jewish settlers and who are oppressed by the Israeli Defense Force to read  that  the Israeli army  is described as the army of the living god  and that  the same god promised their land to the Israelis?? 
 Newspapers are full of stories of Muslim preachers preaching violence .  Exhortations to the Jews to totally exterminate the Midianites are in the bookshelves of millions of British households and go unremarked.  The same writings justify the  exclusion of the  Palestinians  (translated as ‘Philistines’ in the OT ) from their lands  and the expulsion of the Jebusites from their city  (Jerusalem)  and advocate racial purity for the Jews.. 
 
What is the point of universal state education in Britain  and membership of the Court of Human Rights and passing  anti-terrorism legislation  when we permit the widespread publication and possession of literature promoting anti human behaviour ?
 
When will we learn , Jews, Christians, Moslems, Egyptians, Philstines/Palestinians, Canaanites,  Midianites and Jebusites-  we are all ‘Jock Tamson’s bairns’ , as Burns said,.
 
 Its comin’ yet for a’ that,
That man to man the world o’er ,
will brothers be for a’ that.
 
James Armstrong, Dorchester    11 April
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