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Readings for 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time:Isaiah 45: 1, 4-6; Psalm 96: 1-10; 1st Thessalonians 1: 1-5b; Matthew 22: 15-21
During Apartheid-Israel's genocidal assault on Palestine, we're privileged to be confronted each week with readings from the "holy books" of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Muslims of course also consider those sources as divinely revealed.
Since Apartheid-Zionists invoke that shared tradition to justify their policies, let's examine them closely.
This week's selections are particularly relevant to the current ongoing slaughter inflicted by Apartheid-Israel because they raise questions concerning God's so-called "chosen," and of their relation to imperialism and colonialism - all concepts that figure prominently in what's unfolding today in Palestine.
The central idea in today's readings is that those who side with empire cannot pretend to belong to Israel's God. There can be no dual citizenship simultaneously in empire and God's Kingdom.
That simple idea applies both to Apartheid-Zionists and their American supporters whose imperial identity and unconditional support for Zionism makes them Apartheid-Americans.
Instead, today's readings reveal that it is non-Jews who because they liberate captives from empire, can qualify as God's "chosen" - even as messianic.
They are the ones who belong to the Kingdom proclaimed by the Jewish Prophet Yeshua whose program (as he put it) was to bring good news to the poor, sight to the blind, liberty to captives, and a Jubilee Year centralizing debt forgiveness (Luke 4: 18). Being "chosen" was not a question of ethnicity, he said, but of doing the right thing in favor of the oppressed and poor.
Today's Gospel selection from the Jewish Matthew is also strongly anti-imperial as well as anti-hypocritical. It deals with the question of paying taxes to Caesar.
Let me show you what I mean by (1) recounting the most relevant shocking facts unfolding in the Middle East while the whole world is watching; then (2) sharing my "translations" of the readings for this 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time; (3) pointing out their relevance for Apartheid-Israelis and their U.S. enablers as together they ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip, and finally (4) drawing some conclusions about the entire situation.
Israel-Palestine Today
Thursday night U.S. President Joe Biden pledged unwavering, unconditional support of Apartheid-Israel.
Assuming his leadership of NATO colonial powers (against the rest of world opinion) he proclaimed that Apartheid-America is:
- What holds the world together,
- Is universally loved,
- Exceptional,
- Indispensable,
- All-powerful,
- And unconditionally allied with Apartheid-Israelis,
- Who in the face of Hamas' pure evil,
- Are admirably strong and resilient.
The president made these claims just after having:
- Claimed (without any investigation or citing any evidence) that Hamas ("the other team" as he put it) not Apartheid-Israel was the one responsible for the war crime of destroying a large Gazan hospital at the cost of at least 600 Palestinian lives, not to mention the seriously injured,
- Rejected (according to Alexander Mercouris) proposals to empower an independent investigation into that claim,
- Been slapped in the face by Arab leaders who refused to meet with a U.S. president.
- Vetoed a UN Security Council proposal calling for a humanitarian pause in Apartheid-Israel's bombing campaign which had already claimed 3000 Palestinian victims, more than half of whom were women and children.
In the face of such hypocrisy, Mr. Biden's claims about Apartheid-America appear pathetic, out-of-touch, and almost laughable. The aging president appeared to "protest too much."
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