Category: Middle East and Judaism

Adventures of a Young Mashiach

By Daniel Ben Abraham

Here is one interesting interpretation of what Mashiach’s adventure may first look like when he comes, so we may as well start asking these questions while we wait for him. With divine hope and creativity is how we should be looking at all our problems anyway. 

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The Trail of Mistakes to Nuclear War

by Daniel Ben Abraham

12.12.20223

With Putin desperate to weaken American support for Ukraine, he decided to form the closest military alliance with Iran the two nations have ever had. China’s Xi thoughtlessly followed suit, believing anything that harms the U.S. is in his interest. Both these global strategic mistakes will make their partner Iran nearly sanction-proof in advancing its weapons capabilities.

Putin made the mistake of invading Ukraine, not realizing NATO would unite to oppose him. Biden made the mistake of unintentionally showing Putin a green light, taking no military action for months while Putin amassed 150,000 troops on the Ukrainian border. Biden not calling Putin throughout the length of the war was a mistake, as was having Boris Johnson reject Russia’s peace offer just weeks into the war. Taking advantage of NATO’s risky opportunity to try to weaken Russia was also a mistake.

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The Metaphysics of Anti-Semitism

by Daniel Ben Abraham

12.17.2023

It is the duty of every Jew to make the world a dwelling place for God, and be a light unto the nations. And that’s true whether the other nations want that light or not. 

Every generation, and no matter how many times we say “never again”, a plague called anti-Semitism causes peoples to rise to destroy us. What we do about anti-Semitism goes to the heart of who we are as Jews. If we know who we are, we know what we must do.

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Humanity is in its infancy in understanding war, and it’s about time we grow up

Humanity’s wars do not happen for the claimed excuses. If they did, we would be able to prevent them. Every causal reason given for every conflict by every expert during, and by historian after, is tangential, if not incorrect. Wars also don’t happen for land nor money nor resources, nor over race nor religion. Despite that many Arabs want to destroy Israel because it is Jewish; these are all still workable challenges. We don’t understand why wars happen at all, and we need to.

Humanity’s wars occur because the world develops outstanding questions; moral, philosophical, definitional and others; and lacks the wisdom, logic, and mechanisms to properly address them in time. And the reason we cannot properly address these questions, is because humanity is not rational, but controlled by ideological collective hive minds which do not behave according to their claimed ideals, but separate, unconscious power dynamics. 

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