Commentary on the future

Melanie Phillips:

 

• And now for some news from civilised Britain

On BBC Radio’s Any Questions on Friday evening, audience questioner Stephen Bedford asked:

‘Despite all the foreign aid and support, Israel has spectacularly failed to get on with its neighbours. Does Israel deserve a future?’

So with Israel having faced existential attack from the Arab and Muslim world for the six decades of its existence, and having been under intensive rocket, missile and human bomb attack from them for more than a decade, the BBC Any Questions production team selected as the audience question to launch its discussion of the Gaza war whether Israel actually deserved to exist at all.

Vile.

 

This reminded me of Obama's pronouncement (from the podium at the General Assembly of the United Nations): 

"The future must not belong to those

 who slander the prophet of Islam."

 

Who do these people think they are, to even discuss who may or may not have or deserve a future? The future belongs to Hashem, Who creates it.

 

".... Like a shepherd pasturing his flock, making sheep pass under his staff, so shall You cause to pass, count, calculate, and consider the soul of all the living; and You shall apportion the destinies of all Your creatures and inscribe their verdict. On Rosh Hashanah will be inscribed and on Yom Kippur will be sealed how many will pass from the earth and how many will be created; who will live and who will die; who will die at his predestined time and who before his time; who by water and who by fire, who by sword, who by beast, who by famine, who by thirst, who by upheaval, who by plague, who by strangling, and who by stoning. Who will rest and who will wander, who will live in harmony and who will be harried, who will enjoy tranquility and who will suffer, who will be impoverished and who will be enriched, who will be degraded and who will be exalted. But Repentance, Prayer, and Charity avert the severe Decree!"

 

Or so "I believe."

 

 

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

My guess -- and I'd put money on this -- is that Stephen Bedford and the top guns at the BBC no more believe in Hashem than I believe in leprauchauns. That's why they can be -- and are -- so damned insouciant about who does and who does not "deserve a future": since, for these sappy secularists, Hashem does not exist, they feel perfectly free to step into the breach and do Hashem's work for Him. The magisterial pontificating we hear incessantly from the so-called intellectual Left is what you get when Secular Humanism takes over the job left vacant by the "Death of God."

[Meshulam]

Considering history, Israel's future is more of a surety than Britain's. More morally defensible also.

[Yael]

Mannie, perhaps we should start a rumor that Secular Humanism is dead. Ya think?

[Mannie Sherberg]

Yael -- not a bad idea! In fact, it's already dying in Europe -- where it's slowly but surely being murdered by Islam. I suspect that one day soon, the term "Eurabia" will simply fade away and be replaced by "Arabia Jr." or something like that. Western Civilization cannot and will not endure without a religious foundation; what's going on in Europe proves that -- although, so far, distressingly few Americans have gotten the message.