Wouldn’t you know it . . . the week I praised my England for taking a step back from the madness that has gripped its green and pleasant land for so long, their scabships recommend this lunacy:

The British government has issued an official recommendation urging business owners to mark Israeli products produced in West Bank settlements so that consumers who want to boycott such items will find it easy to identify them.

Oh, and by the way, happy Hannukah! . . . The line forms to the left.

How soon we forget . . .

Now, I realise that no one can claim innocence in the Levantine conflict; both the Israelis and Palestinians must take major steps to ease tensions.

Israel needs to stop considering the Haram esh-Sharif as the site of the Temple Mount; the Haram esh-Sharif was the Romans’ Fort Antonia. The Jewish Temples were located on the Ophel mound situated directly over the Gihon Spring, which makes sense because purification rites associated with major Temple ceremonies required the use of spring water—‘living waters’ as described in the Tanakh. The only spring within five miles of Jerusalem was the Gihon Spring, about a quarter mile south of the Haram esh-Sharif.

For Christians, Christ’s prophecy, “There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down,” should provide further proof.

Israel also needs to recall a couple verses from the Torah:

And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Tensions would be greatly eased if Israel granted full democratic protections to anyone living in its territories.

The Palestinians also need to give up their designs on the West Bank and accept the Philistine Pentapolis (Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron, Gath, and Gaza) as their ancient Philistine homeland—and their future homeland as prophesied in the Bible.

Yes, one of these days . . .