Israel
BANNED
I am writing again to you with an entreaty, as once before. My hope is that this does not fall upon deaf ears.
Various comments I have heard over the last several years attributed to you have given me pause. And to be fair, I am well aware that things attributed may not be things true, and our distance makes personal verification difficult to say the least. Nevertheless these have been things echoed quite publicly and it is hard for me to believe you are unaware.
Yet, even if a thing purportedly said was not said, but is taken up by a populace in eager agreement, you can see how crewmen on a ship of state, if either believing or hoping such to be true may act, or act out, accordingly. And the fact that they may not have been uttered almost becomes moot. The eager gobbling up of such by a significant number of said crewmen still may have deleterious effects upon a ship's handling and direction.
It is not incumbent upon you or any man to address any calumny. What may be said falsely about him (you) or falsely attributed to him does not hold an inherent necessity of address. You are free to ignore without having to be sidetracked by every sling or arrow scurrilously aimed your way.
But you also know, as not only a head of state but also by previous positions held in business enterprise, that if the chain of command suffers by insubordination or mistaken/ignorant reports of a chairman's intents, the business will eventually not reflect (and is subject to suffering if such a chairman is wise) that intent. So, in all, it becomes your prerogative of address as to whether such statement, if true, is yielding a corruption and in require of a straightening out to prevent further cankering. And if not true, to set the record straight even among those who may have hoped it were.
Such easily equate what appears in their own minds as a noble patriotism with such a view. Believing, as it were, that such is a normal consistency of evaluation by those who believe they rightly "love their country" above all others; and even so to the point of agreement that certain others can then be derided so casually. And if, by some metric that were to establish such a nation to a measurable superiority imparts a likewise and just call to derision. What I do not doubt in attribution is your full endorsement of the phrase "Make America Great Again", having seen you too often wearing such hats to be able to honestly doubt my eyes and ears.
So, is/was America once "Great"? Was, or is, this ever any of your doing? If it is a summoning to return to greatness by your appeal made before you held any helm of state, obviously not. I would ask you to consider, and so deeply as to not have any doubt about it, if there was a greatness allowed to this nation...by whose hand was it granted? Consider deeply before you answer.
If you consider the hand that may have allowed this nation to appear great by any measure belongs to the hearer and seer of all things, He already knows whether such estate is of His making, and likewise, whether such estate is rightly maintained for the despising of others less experiencing in their own homelands of His provision. You see, His eyes are a bit larger in view than merely Maine to Southern California. (and Hawaii). And a careful reading of His historical dealings that reveal Him willing to establish certain peoples, and thence nations as storehouses of such provisions for the more needy will also reveal He is not slow to judge what has mistakenly taken such providential care as of their own doing and making. Self exaltation does not escape His sight. It is not wise to sit at His table and imagine Him (the healer of such) a deaf mute.
Therefore, before it must be proven to any or all, even in sight of the whole of the world that such a nation can be humbled to estate once so casually assumed applicable to certain others, I would ask you to consider these words. He alone knows whether the world, and this nation in particular at whose helm you temporarily find yourself, will benefit from added sufferings that accrue to the accounts of the proud and stiff-necked.
But even Ahab, when donning sackcloth did not go unnoticed. And every man is free to make declaration of his allegiances and affections, but not without knowing he will be tested to see whether his word is true. And whether such allegiances and affections have a sure foundation.
Your care in these matters you have volunteered to, to take on being a "leader". Do it wisely I entreat first, for your own soul's sake, and also, no less, for those of whom you declare such an avowed affection. Do not imagine it is in your power to establish a city on a hill. Or that this nation is it. But it is in your power to eschew deriding of others that will only bring grief into your own house.
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan.
Various comments I have heard over the last several years attributed to you have given me pause. And to be fair, I am well aware that things attributed may not be things true, and our distance makes personal verification difficult to say the least. Nevertheless these have been things echoed quite publicly and it is hard for me to believe you are unaware.
Yet, even if a thing purportedly said was not said, but is taken up by a populace in eager agreement, you can see how crewmen on a ship of state, if either believing or hoping such to be true may act, or act out, accordingly. And the fact that they may not have been uttered almost becomes moot. The eager gobbling up of such by a significant number of said crewmen still may have deleterious effects upon a ship's handling and direction.
It is not incumbent upon you or any man to address any calumny. What may be said falsely about him (you) or falsely attributed to him does not hold an inherent necessity of address. You are free to ignore without having to be sidetracked by every sling or arrow scurrilously aimed your way.
But you also know, as not only a head of state but also by previous positions held in business enterprise, that if the chain of command suffers by insubordination or mistaken/ignorant reports of a chairman's intents, the business will eventually not reflect (and is subject to suffering if such a chairman is wise) that intent. So, in all, it becomes your prerogative of address as to whether such statement, if true, is yielding a corruption and in require of a straightening out to prevent further cankering. And if not true, to set the record straight even among those who may have hoped it were.
Such easily equate what appears in their own minds as a noble patriotism with such a view. Believing, as it were, that such is a normal consistency of evaluation by those who believe they rightly "love their country" above all others; and even so to the point of agreement that certain others can then be derided so casually. And if, by some metric that were to establish such a nation to a measurable superiority imparts a likewise and just call to derision. What I do not doubt in attribution is your full endorsement of the phrase "Make America Great Again", having seen you too often wearing such hats to be able to honestly doubt my eyes and ears.
So, is/was America once "Great"? Was, or is, this ever any of your doing? If it is a summoning to return to greatness by your appeal made before you held any helm of state, obviously not. I would ask you to consider, and so deeply as to not have any doubt about it, if there was a greatness allowed to this nation...by whose hand was it granted? Consider deeply before you answer.
If you consider the hand that may have allowed this nation to appear great by any measure belongs to the hearer and seer of all things, He already knows whether such estate is of His making, and likewise, whether such estate is rightly maintained for the despising of others less experiencing in their own homelands of His provision. You see, His eyes are a bit larger in view than merely Maine to Southern California. (and Hawaii). And a careful reading of His historical dealings that reveal Him willing to establish certain peoples, and thence nations as storehouses of such provisions for the more needy will also reveal He is not slow to judge what has mistakenly taken such providential care as of their own doing and making. Self exaltation does not escape His sight. It is not wise to sit at His table and imagine Him (the healer of such) a deaf mute.
Therefore, before it must be proven to any or all, even in sight of the whole of the world that such a nation can be humbled to estate once so casually assumed applicable to certain others, I would ask you to consider these words. He alone knows whether the world, and this nation in particular at whose helm you temporarily find yourself, will benefit from added sufferings that accrue to the accounts of the proud and stiff-necked.
But even Ahab, when donning sackcloth did not go unnoticed. And every man is free to make declaration of his allegiances and affections, but not without knowing he will be tested to see whether his word is true. And whether such allegiances and affections have a sure foundation.
Your care in these matters you have volunteered to, to take on being a "leader". Do it wisely I entreat first, for your own soul's sake, and also, no less, for those of whom you declare such an avowed affection. Do not imagine it is in your power to establish a city on a hill. Or that this nation is it. But it is in your power to eschew deriding of others that will only bring grief into your own house.
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan.
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