I am well aware of and have watched this bit of “news” in living color because I was there at the time, that it continues is like everything else that man tends to do when he wants something, take it, destroy it, build on it and everyone and everything else be damned. Perhaps you should visit Israel yourself or maybe Palestine and get all the facts with your own eyes. It’s worth it! Yes, the Jews have destroyed some of their own land, but they have reclaimed that land in a positive way with their stewardship. This is in no way an excuse for what they are doing to Palestinian land, but I have seen in the past, where the Palestinians have destroyed their land and left it to repair itself. I have travelled throughout thte West Bank, parts of Gaza and other places in Israel and have compared all inhabited areas. The Palestinians are not stupid people. They too can work the land to make it fruitful, but they don’t, not even on a small scale. Yes, they have some small private farms, but they are not well kept or maintained. They must learn to take care of their land and stop using what the Israeli’s are doing
as a hindrance. I am starting to go into politics and that is not my intention. There is a lot going on there, that people can’t see or know about who have never set foot in the region, except by the television. Take a trip there and see what I mean. You may never get into some of the territories though, I was lucky, I’m connected, and no, I am not Jewish or white, just a well-travelled and fortuntate individual who tries to look at the situation from many sides.

That’s not a novel idea either, looking to nature. The Jews have been doing it for millennas and still live according to nature’s cycles. Their calendar is different and so too the way that they eat, plant, harvest, live and many other day to day things. It is how they have survived and maybe we should look to nature for how to do these things, but we can’t seem to do it according to our own calendar, much less someone else’s. They know that every 7 years they have drought and the 7 promising years that they have in Israel is when they grow and store grain and other things for the leaner years ahead. We could definitely take a lesson from them. They take care of the land, for it is their very survival, and they make the best use of it at all times. Rarely do you see or hear of Jews desecrating land and they are forever planting trees. When I was in Israel and Jordon a few years ago, all you had to do was to look around and compare what Jordon looked like, versus Israel as far as agricultural development . Almost everywhere you looked in Israel, something green was growing and flourishing as opposed to Jordon, where things were dry, arid, dead or didn’t exist. Israel too can be and is sometimes dry and arid, but they found ways to overcome these problems with irrigation and stewardship of the land. Water is a premium in those countries, which makes it all the more amazing at what they have done and are still doing with agriculture.

Someday, before it is too late,(and it’s getting later all the time) I hope that we can learn in this country, that we don’t have the answers to many problems, but work on finding solutions and use solutions that are tried and true by other countries for healthy living and a truly, healthy lifestyle.