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Armed conflict in the modern era offers nothing but pain, futility, destruction, and grief. Seeking to drive the Jews out of Israel is the same as driving everyone not descended from the Indigenous First Peoples out of the US. At the same time, Israeli hardliners guarantee the status quo. Instead of rallying behind the region with armaments, the developed countries of the world could rally behind the region with rapid and sustainable economic development which could then, by example, spread overnight across the globe. In the modern era, when food is an abundant renewable resource, continued malnutrition and hunger is the same abomination as war. Healthcare is an abundant renewable resource with more and better healthcare available every day. Education is an abundant renewable resource. #HumanCompassion can be the same. The pace of change can be the pace of modern technology. #PeaceandSustainableProsperity can arrive as rapidly as the rise of the Sharing Economy in two years or the fall of three dictatorships in three months during Arab Spring. #TheDefinitionofInsanityisDoingtheSameThingOverandOverHopingforDifferentResults #LeadershipisShiftingtheParadigm #EconomicDevelopmentinsteadofWar #RiseTogether

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"What is the Protestant Reformation?" It is a call to return to the authority of Scripture and the biblical gospel of justification by grace alone through faith alone. Learn more about it as you follow the link at: https://lnkd.in/eqiNXFwh

The first antisemitic incident goes back about 3000 years - old Egypt. Through the ages Jewish communities and great Jewish individuals were shaping European history. Imagine Europe without early philosophers like Moses Mendelssohn, giants like Einstein or Freud. Without artists like Klimt, Kokoschka or Klee. Without composers like Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Without writers like Kafka. Without musicians like Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Rubinstein. Without politicians like Kissinger ( a German Jew) . Without scientists like Oppenheimer, Ilse Meitner. Without philanthropists like the famous Rothschild family - the „ arch enemy „ of every antisemite. And many many more.- The word „ mensch“ - the German word for „ human being „ is jiddish as can be and summarises in one single word all requirements for being human. - Nevertheless the Jews were the scapegoats for virtually everything under the sky. Plague in your village- time for a pogrome. Not enough rain/ too much rain: time for a pogrome. „ Practically“ the money lenders were killed too in such a devastating pogrom and all debts were cleared. As there was no way to join the guilds - yes the Jews acted as the early bankers. Industrialised Holocaust with more than 4 mio Jews killed by Nazis- but don’t fool yourself- that wouldn’t have been possible without willing helpers all over Europe. And some have the audacity today to ask : why didn’t the Jews defend themselves. - Well, that’s what they do today. In Israel. The start up nation of the world. The small giant nation in high tech and one of the highest per capita Nobel prize winners. Thank you Valérie for sharing this powerful speech . I‘m more than happy to share because it summarises everything what needs to be said.

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Today, as we recognize our independence and praise the true source of liberation, let us honor and hear a diversity of voices and experiences as a call to understanding, peace, and unity. https://lnkd.in/gJ3xE2Nr