One The only way is one

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Affirmative may be justified
Take from one give to another
The goal is to be unified
Take my hand be my brother
The payment silenced the masses
Sanctified by oppression
Unity took a backseat
Sliding further in regression
One The only way is one
I feel angry I feel helpless
Want to change the world
I feel violent I feel alone
Don't try and change my mind
Society blind by color
Why hold down one to raise another
Discrimination now on both sides
Seeds of hate blossom further
The world is heading for mutiny
When all we want is unity
We may rise and fall, but in the end
We meet our fate together
One The only way is one
I feel angry I feel helpless
Want to change the world
I feel violent I feel alone
Don't try and change my mind

Genesis 21

Genesis 21 Hagar and Ishmael Sent Away
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.1 ¶ And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken. 2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. 3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. 4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him. .5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. 6 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me. 7 And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age. 8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
1 - As he had spoken God never fails to keep His promises. However, we may refuse the conditions upon which they are based and lose the blessing.
1 ¶ And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken. 2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. 3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. 4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him. 5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. 6 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me. 7 And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age. 8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
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9 ¶ And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking. 10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondsman and her son: for the son of this bondsman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac. 11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son. 12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondsman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. 13 And also of the son of the bondsman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
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.14 ¶ And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. 15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. 16 And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a borsht: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept. Whose prayer was answered?
14 - Beersheba He is called "son of the bondsman" and "child." He has lost his name (and apparently the inheritance). Yet God has made the Muslim people a great nation. For "Beersheba" see the map of Solomon's time. 16 - Good way off He must have been suffering for lack of water. Apparently he would die.
.17 And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. 18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation. 19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink. 20 And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. 21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt. .22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest: 23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned. 24 And Abraham said, I will swear.
17 - Voice Audible or inaudible. See how the Hebrew word is used in ex2018, 1sa1514, 2sa0524. God hears our heart cry to Him. He responded to the cry of Ishmael. . 19 - God opened God (Allah) continues to love the Arab people. 21 - Wilderness of Paran An open region between the Gulf of Aquaba and the Gulf of Suez and south of Kadesh-barnea. See NE quarter of Egypt-Sinai map. It was away from the corruptiing influences of Egypt.
.25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away. 26 And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day. 27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant. 28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. 29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves? 30 And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well. .31 Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them. .32 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
31 - Beersheba Means "well of the oath." See map. 32 - Philistines These people existed far back in history. See on jg1301.
33 And Abraham planted a grove ["a tamarisk tree" NASB] in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God. 34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.
33 - Abraham planted a grove Or "... a grove of tamarisks" or "a tamarisk tree." He also worshipped as we see from the verse. This may have been the destination intended for Hagar and Ishmael.

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Israel and Palestine: Stop the Wall Immediately (petition)Report by Charlie PottinsPublished: 28/07/03
The Israeli government is currently erecting the Wall of Separation euphemistically called the “Security Fence” which is supposed to block “terrorist attacks” (but certainly won’t prevent missiles and helicopters from hitting their human targets) at an estimated cost of 2 billion dollars in the middle of the Occupied Territories of the West Bank. Plans also exist to complete it along the Jordan River. In any case it is already creating a situation with immeasurably tragic consequences. But at this time, the reactions and objections from international organizations, governments, public opinions outside and inside Israel (with the notable exception of such courageous groups as Gush Shalom, B’Tselem, Ta’yush), remain strangely restrained, as if the construction were a fait accompli, as if protest must wait for the work to be completed or tactical precautions must be observed during a period of renewed “peace talks” under the auspices of the U. S. and other world powers.
Directly or indirectly displacing populations and/or depriving them of their means of subsistence (uprooting trees, denying access to water and to arable land) and opportunities for learning and work, through the dire restriction of movement, the Wall strikes at the capacity of the Palestinian people to persist, comparable to the mass expulsions of 1948 and the occupation of 1967. An estimated 90, 000 to 210, 000 Palestinians are going to be displaced from their homes. As for all others, it is designed to make their lives so utterly impossible that many will have no choice than leave, either their villages, or their country. The Wall sanctions and renders irreversible the Jewish settlements (all of them illegal by international law) and the incremental seizure of East Jerusalem, both of which transform the future, always promised “viable Palestinian State,” into a mere patchwork of Bantustans and refugee camps, generalizing and aggravating the model already realized in Gaza. I! t imprisons the Palestinians (or better said that segment of the Palestinian people who until now has succeeded in remaining and resisting on its own soil) on a restricted part of the West Bank within a murderous triple line of concrete, barbed wire and electronic fortifications, whose precedents in modern history indisputably belong to the totalitarian tradition. It also transforms the Israeli “defense forces” and the Israeli citizens themselves into a people of camp wardens. In short, this is a new naqba that promises for the present and the future only famine, deportations, terror, war, and abjection whatever transitory arrangements might be reached through local and international agreements.
Are we going to watch this process without raising any protest, just to discover after the event that we were guilty of “non-intervention” in a crime against humanity committed before our eyes? The signatories here refuse to accept the Wall as inevitable, and decry the cowardice of those who do not raise their voices against this injustice. The signatories launch an urgent appeal to democratic forces and governments, to the United Nations and humanitarian organizations, to the Jewish communities around the World who have kept the memory of their own past sufferings, and to religious, moral, academic and legal authorities. The construction of the Wall must stop immediately. World opinion must force the Israeli government to dismantle the Wall and return and restore the Palestinian land it has already appropriated and destroyed. This is not an object of “negotiation”. It is a moral and political imperative.
To add your name send an email to stopthewall@alt-info.org or access the online petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/stw/petition.html
First Signatories:
Ariella AZOULAY, Bar-Ilan University, Israel Etienne BALIBAR, University of Paris-Nanterre and University of California, Irvine Daniel BOYARIN, University of California, Berkeley Susan BUCK-MORSS, Cornell University, Ithaca Judith BUTLER, University of California, Berkeley Nabil EL HAGGAR, Université des Sciences et Techniques de Lille Ghislaine GLASSON-DESCHAUMES, Directrice, Revue Transeuropéennes Neve GORDON, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva Barbara HAHN, Princeton University Domenico JERVOLINO, Università Federico II, Napoli Henri KORN, Académie des Sciences, Paris Catherine LEVY, CNRS, Paris Jean-Marc LEVY-LEBLOND, Université de Nice, Sophia-Antipolis Michael LÖWY, CNRS, Paris Camille MANSOUR, Université Bir-Zeit et Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne Joëlle MARELLI, traductrice, Paris Fatma OUSSEDIK, Université d’Alger Bruce ROBBINS, Columbia University, New-York Peter SCHÖTTLER, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin Marianne SCHULLER, Universität Hamburg Immanuel WALLERSTEIN, Yale University Sergio YAHNI, The Alternative Information Center, Jerusalem
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/stw/petition.html