Do not trust in deceptive words and say, “This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord! If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors for ever and ever“.

Would you ‘adam n eve it! A native Welsh speaking follower of the Jewish Yeshua, or Iesu, as we call him, shares part of his religious heritage with a bunch of murderous, racist, genocidal, fanatical, sociopathic Zionist politicians and white-settlers! In the book that the latter call ‘The Tanakh’ and we call ‘Yr Hen Destament’, an Israelite prophet called Jeremiah, who lived 2,650 years ago, uttered the above warning. His words, not mine: “I will let you live in this place” (ie Jerusalem).

BUT! Yes! There’s a ‘but’. ‘God’ makes possession of the ‘Promised Land CONDITIONAL (Deuteronomy 4:40) on his people obeying his commandments eg Do not shed innocent blood.

But there’s more! God makes it clear in Leviticus 25 that the Promised Land BELONGS TO HIM and him alone. His people are only ‘sojourners’. In other words, their stay is only TEMPORARY, even if they do obey all his commandments. Their ‘God’ is adamant: The Land is Mine, not yours!

Maybe the Zionist politicians. and their White Settlers partners-in-crime, need an urgent lesson in Tanakh studies.

For the record, the current Zionists are not ‘ancestors’ of the original Israelites. They disappeared a long time ago, leaving no title deeds with anyone to ‘God’s Promised Land.

An artist’s impression of Jeremiah

An artist’s impression of the sixth century ‘Fall of Jerusalem’.

“The rage that breaks a man into children”

The rage that breaks a man into children,
that breaks a child into identical birds
and then a bird into small eggs—
the rage of the poor
has an oil against two vinegars.

The rage that makes a tree break into leaf,
a leaf into unequal buds
and a bud into telescopic folds—
the rage of the poor
has two rivers against many seas.

The rage that breaks the good into doubts,
doubt into three similar arcs
and then an arc into unexpected graves—
the rage of the poor
has a steel against two daggers.

The rage that breaks a soul into bodies,
a body into dissimilar organs
and an organ into octavo thoughts—
the rage of the poor
has a central fire against two pits. (Cesar Vallejo)

Cesar Vallejo died in Paris, aged 46, in 1938