West Bank Partnership

Here's an e-ssay I just sent to eleven Middle-Eastern 'contacts' in that regions government and media. The day was higher because of the news that Israel's Ariel Sharon was withdrawing all 8000 Jewish settlers from Gaza, and hundreds from the West Bank. The news prompted this, sent primarily to The Palestinian Authority, and the PLO.

Hi!

From the hills of Australia, the latest moves by Sharon appear positive.

Allah! Allah! Allah Be Praised!

Palestine be Praised!

A New Day, perhaps!

Watching from afar, the matter of the West Bank strikes me as an Excellent Opportunity, to further the Cause of Global Human Justice enormously.

If ancient 'attachments' can be dispelled, room is there to intersperse Palestinian "Villages" and "Townships" between the established Israeli West Bank settlements.

However, in-counter to the apparently unstoppable western consumer-putsch, I call forward those who remember or recognise the All-Embracing Sustainability of the 'old' yes, Agrarian Culture, Way of Life.

For, after 34 or so years of observation and inquiry (I became a member of my first [Environmental] Conservation Society at 16 years of age... Thanks Mum!) I am firm in my belief that the Agrarian Culture, with all the Happy-Trappings of Seasonal Festivals etc., is the Best Way for Humanity as One Planet, to survive any-and-all of the 'situations' which are foreseen to come in the near future - environmental extremes, economic, military and social extremes, the last 3 being something akin to today's 'west', the USA especially. But clearly that same US culture is the worst offender in the environmental struggle also.

The larger part of the global chaos is from the west's 'global glutteny', where a minority of People consume a disproportionately large amount of the produce and resources, whence they must seek them from Foriegn Lands.

This is caused by overly high concentrations of People into cities, 'factory-mills' in-Truth, to support almost all the 'artificial' 'enhanced' material-and-resource producers and marketers therein ensconced. But today most are 'off-shore'. Nature, is their enemy.

Most Socialist societies are not, or are no longer 'expansionist' as the USA is. This is because they are more efficient on sharing resources, "Communally", if-I-may.

So, offering my humble opinion, any New State, and again I impress the importance to the World of your Proximity, would kindly say no to the dominant 'infrastructural' plans the US and after them Britain and Europe will undoubtedly 'offer' you.

Capitalist 'beads-and-trinkets', you-can-be-sure..........

It follows that I urge the Agrarian Culture in opposition therefore to the western cult - the golden calf tribe.

Along with this however, must come freedom for all, from other economic debilitations from 'outside', essentially the foriegn corporate/banking interests driving World Bank, IMF, "Group of Seven" etc., policies.

But I do not know the arable state of your territories, so tilling the desert may need some Serious Faith, for Self-Sustainability.

Obviously, national borders mean nothing Good for intra-regional Culture and Trade, so Expanded Regional Self-Sufficiency would seem the most Logical Call.

Regionally, much-needed Knowledge is landing with the 'western-incursion' to the Middle-East. Not that I have any reason to disparage your Old Ways.

"Democracy" is the word, much challenged from the quarters worried about how all Good Ideas are quickly claimed and used by the totalitarianists.

"Democracy however, is a Wonderful Ideal, but is vulnerable and dangerous IF THE PEOPLE ARE STUPID."

Stupid about their own Complete Self, about Community Politics and about the Importance of Community Politics being a Fundamental, Integral part of their lives.

More specifically the Politics of Humanity's Economic Relationship with the Land.

Allah Wills It, I believe.

Democracy however, founded on the Universal Principles of LAND RENT for GOVERNMENT REVENUE, is the most efficient form of government, and releases - more than all other methods, the causes of stress which the western consumer system excites. I put-it that LR for GR allows Religion to Settle into it's Proper Place, as behind the People, there to keep the Focus On High, free of the added tax of dealing with a fundamentally and increasingly corrupt taxation system 'on the ground'.

This it does by more efficient use of the Land.

The Universal Principles of LAND RENT for GOVERNMENT REVENUE, is in another way of saying, of the People saying "Don't sell (or steal) our Mother!"

This may be seen to be how your Fellow Country-Folk see things too?

Leviticus 25!

We all need security of tenure, Jew, Palestinian and Australian Wanderer-alike. Sharing the load, above creedal differences, stabilising the Local Economies by eliminating the emphasis on the occult real estate and Applying Land Rent for Revenue, enables the Local to "get on with Life" at the Local level - "Grow Your Own" as we say here.

Given the opportunity to Secure their immediate environment and economy (econimus: Greek, "management of the household" or such), on their own or shared piece-of-affordable-dirt, "arable" dirt of course, me-thinks would resolve many-if-not-most current and apparently ancient differences.

Naturally, in the name of Global Human Justice, the Jewish settlements can only but be equally included in such a "sprinkling" of Palestinian Villages across the West Bank.

I opine that the Jewish Settlers have much Spiritual Work to do in dispelling the toxic beliefs of the worrysome Talmudic Fundamentalists, perhaps of many centuries ago, but a test of today's Religious will be their reaction to a "Cross-Regional" Economic Reform along the lines of Leviticus 25; Borderless Land Rent.

Something has to "Shift" in the Middle-East. Perhaps Mr Sharon is "on-the-money" as we say.

For a Coalition of Middle-Eastern Nations, including the "New" State of Iraq, including the Jews, to help each other grow Positively via a Unified set of Reforms, would set-the-scene for a Middle East of once more, Gigantic Proportions in the re-flourishing of your whole regions Cultural Excellences-of-Old, of the past, but not yet extinct.

The Call is for All to hear, and says to the whole cynical world that Allah, YHVH, God has at last cast His Light upon our lost Souls once more, with the Simple, Pure, Perennial Wisdom of Land Rent for Government Revenue.

Comrades! Return to Your Roots!

Praise Palestine!

Praise "Educated Democracy"!

Praise Be!

PS: This same argument, as I've herein put, as regards the West Bank, should apply directly to the business of the "Wall" Israel is trying to construct.

Share The Land, Children.

It is after all, His, Our Common Father's.