✡️ ☪️ Israel Vs Iran - Are We on the Brink of World War 3?
Yes, no, maybe so
“Pray for the shalom of Jerusalem.” —Psalm 122:6
Before we discuss the rather unfortunate and premature demise of humanity thanks to a minor war over which Middle Eastern cousin gets to control an obscure bit of Middle Eastern sand — it was supposed to be environmental collapse that kills humanity, remember? !— let’s take a fun moment to review all the terrible options:
The Two-State Solution
Israel gets a state.
Palestine gets a state.
Prediction: Not going to happen, because Muslim jihadists will continue with terrorist attacks while Israel continues to encroach with settlements.
The Ten-State Solution
Jerusalem becomes a city-state.
Nazareth becomes a lakeside spa town.
Gaza becomes the new UAE/Monaco with hijabs.
Tel Aviv becomes the Middle Eastern Las Vegas with yarmulkes.
Etc.
Prediction: Not going to happen. China, Russia, the US, and the nation of Islam would soon control any smaller city-state or regional entity. Plus jihadis will keep blowing people up.
The No-State Solution
Just like the moon or Antarctica.
The UN oversees it, administers it, protects it, and runs it.
Prediction: Not going to happen. The UN is falling apart. Plus jihadis will keep blowing people up.
The Wild Solution
The whole thing gets turned into a wildlife park where human beings are expressly forbidden from entering.
The desert becomes a forest again.
Galilee sees the fish numbers recover.
The Jordan becomes drinkable.
Prediction: Not going to happen. Jihadis will blow up the fences.
The One-State Solution
Everyone — all outsiders — need to shut their yap for five seconds and be brutally honest about the truth:
Neither side wants a two-state solution.
Both sides want a one-state solution.
One Muslim state.
One Jewish state.
Radical Jews will never stop fighting until they control 100% of the land they believe was promised to them by Yahweh.
Radical Muslims will not stop fighting until all Jews are destroyed.
The two sides have been fighting since Muslims invaded, besieged, and captured Jerusalem in 637 AD.
Maybe we should evacuate all the civilians and let the diehards duke it out?
Saudi could facilitate the relocation of all non-combatant Muslims.
America could facilitate the relocation of all non-combatant Jews.
Then let the fundamentalists fight over sand.
We could turn it into a reality TV show.
Prediction: On a long enough timescale, one winner taking all is the most likely, if not inevitable, outcome.
World War 3
I won’t dive into the weeds on who “should” get this land — as we covered in this article, the modern Israeli argument is tenuous and the Palestinian argument is demented.
But the current flare-up in this long-simmering conflict is probably not the start of WWIII.
Remember, this is not the first time folks in the Middle East have gone at it. There were the Arab-Israeli wars, the Iran-Iraq War, and countless uprisings, skirmishes, civil wars, bruh-ha-has, and tete-a-tetes. None has ever left the region.
The Middle East is like cryptocurrency — it’s a whole other world with a different outlook on reality and its movements don’t really affect anyone outside its metaverse.
When the crypto markets crashed last year, it didn’t even budge the real money markets. Do you think the United States, NATO, and the EU want to go to war against China and Russia because a bunch of religious people claim a pile of dirt is “holy?”
Not in the least — none of these nations even believe in Yahweh/Allah anymore.
Besides, the stakes are far too high.
In the age of nuclear nations, a truly global world war will decimate humanity — literally, move the decimal point. We’d be lucky if a few hundred people survived underground, in space, and in submarines.
There are no benefits that outweigh the costs.
So, sit back. Relax.
Muslims and Jews are never going to stop doing their thing.
Like siblings that never stop bickering, it’s best to ignore them.
And everything outside the medieval volcano that is the Middle East is just rumors of wars.
Spread the facts and engage in reasoned conversations about the bad-faith arguments on both sides.
Serve the poor civilians if you’re the serving type.
Pray for peace if you’re the praying type.
The inevitable solution will reveal itself in due time.
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