Middle East Chaos

The collapse of the Palestinian Authority, Israel’s negotiating partner, was raised as a possibility on Monday, as several aides to its president, Mahmoud Abbas, said that he intended to resign and forecast that others would follow.

In the Midrash-Book of Metaphor is written, God lifted the mountain beneath which the Jewish People were camped and said: either accept the Torah or I will drop the mountain on you; the Midrash also says at the beginning of creation the Creator made a deal with the Jewish Soul, either accept the Torah or I will return the world back in chaos.

The players in this game of politics are puppets parroting their part while the people on both sides suffer. Like a child pulling his on hair, the Palestinians would rather inflict chaos on their own people than compromise; similarly, Israelis refuse to relinquish what they have won in war–the whole situation stinks. Undoubtably each will blame the other if God forbid things spiral out of control.

The Cabala explains the previous world was called Tohu/Chaos and our world is called Tikun/Order, in between these two worlds stands the unfathomable emptiness of space. Politics has failed to bridge that gap, it is time to look for another solution to this problem.

Only a no state solution can meld back together what Rome has sundered apart.