ishmael is isaac?

SUPPOSE THE ANCIENT

SCRIBES DID ERR?

A Lyrical Plea for Sanity

By Izzy Ess of Peacefulness

Suppose that ancient scribes were once mistaken in assuming Hagar was not Jewish?  It makes no sense for Miriam to have invited her to tempt her Abraham without her being Jewish.  It makes more sense if Hagar was anointed by the Patriarch of all the allegorically real Jewish Peoples to have been Jewish.  Thus, Ishmael, with a Hebrew name, would surely be the Patriarch of many Jews, not Mohammedans, who weren’t yet established.  Ishmael was a successful Patriarch of all the Arab nations, including Egypt, Canaan, Persia and the Mesopotamia, where likely was the Eden Garden, twixt the Tigress and Euphrates Rivers that now embrace Bagdad, the ancient Babylon, the Capital of present Iraq.  When these people did defeat the Jewish armies and destroyed the temple and its Ark, it can’t be true, since someone Arabic re-wrote the Pentateuch and made some modifications that are quite significant.  A good example is the story of the Eden Garden.  Where the Pentateuch describes that Lucifer was sent to tempt poor Eve, in Babylon, it was the She-Devil, Lilith, who was sent to educate the newly married couple in the garden with regard to old techniques of sex.  Apparently, the Babylonian account makes Adam fussy, rejecting Lilith and awaiting Eve to fall in love with Lucifer who gets her to completely eat forbidden fruit.  Adam, still a wishy-washy individual becomes afraid, just after Eve and he do share the fig or apple of the Tree of Knowledge.  When the Creator, The Almighty God, returns to find his new creations cowering in the bushes, he demands to know who ate the fruit and did err.  Adam unabashedly just points his finger at the woman and says it was entirely all her fault.  Our Lord accepts his word and banishes the couple from the Garden’s Eastern Gate and guards against their possible re-entering by Cherubim and a flaming twirling Sward of a mystery to me.  Perhaps it was an oil well that was set afire…  I’m guessing that our Eve was already with the child that was to be her Cain, the one that murders Abel with the jaw bone of an ass.  Luckily, our Eve remains quite fertile and begets another son, her Seth and altogether with old Adam and her fresh young sons, she makes an hundred babies for herself and starts the Human Race.  This incestuous beginning feels a lot like Lot’s affairs with both his teenage daughters who can guess that Jews will never populate the Basin of the Sea that would fill in with water when the continental drift returns the Africa to the South to open up Gibraltar Straits and spread the legs of the Colossus, Rhodes.  Lot was grandfather to Moab who would eventually begat the line of Saul, David, Solomon and our Jesus.  Incestuousness is a given when the women are quite sparse and pro-creation is a must, exactly like the situation was in Eden’s Garden, in the old Bagdad, in old Iraq.

If Hagar were imbibed by Abraham’s strong Jewish Spirit, she could be deemed a Jewess and thus Ishmael would be the Patriarch of all the Jews and Arabs in the ancient world of Middle East.  His half-begotten brother, Isaac, would have surely been a Jew and thus a brother to all the Arabs that were thereafter so begotten from the Sinai Desert to the Promised lands held then by Canaanites, Hittites, Persians and the Mesopotamians.  Genetic studies show that Canaanites were Lebanese and the Phoenicians that were happy folks, quite skilled in sailing and in commerce, who eventually did trade with all the Peoples of the Ancient Sea that was to be Mediterranean.  Their cleverness is still revealed by the circularly protected Port of Carthage, on the shore of Africa, just east of Egypt.  If Ishmael were Jewish, these such clever sailors and commercial agents would also be essentially of Jewish blood.  To this day, the Lebanese and their sparkling capital, Beirut, are moderating people in the Middle East.  The Assyrians have been attacking Lebanon, it seems for centuries and now are facing retribution by the world at large for crimes against Humanity.  At this very moment, Judeo-Christian forces are preparing to obliterate the murderers of their own people, women, men and even children.  This moral, quite “Crusading” war will just repeat the history of what this region has been going through, for centuries.  I think it was the Winston Churchill clever statement that the folks who still ignore the Histories are often doomed to just repeat it.

So, in essence, warring hating factions of the Middle East are siblings in a deadly kind of sibling rivalry.  Wake up my brothers!  Share a cup of Turkish coffee, creamy butter and some hot croissants, some Haifa oranges and just relax and quite enjoy your common heritage and the Life’s Kind Spirit that we all have so in common.  There’s room enough for everyone.  Surely it could be built: a Palestine that truly represents our common heritage, a country which would free all Jews, Arabs and Christians to live in Peace and Harmony.  Why must they all repeat the errors of their ancestors?  Why can’t we all accept our DNA strong similarities instead of seeking out the tiny differences?  Wake up and smell the roses!  Peace could easily be had if certain greedy leaders stop this grabbing of the land and all its precious gifts.  There’s gold and frankincense for all.  There’s myrrh enough to lubricate relationships and make them smooth and happy.  The land is beautiful and bountiful and does not deserve destruction and abuse.

Please lay down your sabres and stop that rattling noise.  Turn all the blades to plows and live in Peace and Harmony with all the Middle East and all the Lands in all the World have yet to offer.  Why obliterate the very land that gives you Life?  Why murder all the other folks that truthfully are your sisters and your brothers?  Why not honour elders and the children for the Freedom that they have to think and feel and calculate the Bounties of the Countrysides?  Also Sprach I und alle Leute that do not plot genocides that will destroy us all, unless we stand up to the madmen who will never learn from History that all their Lust, Greed and Gluttony and Envy, Pride and Angry Prejudice, will never serve them well.  Forgive them for their errors and allow them to forgive us for resisting genocide, which often causes border skirmishes and world wars…  Oh Lord, forgive them for they know not what they do.  Love is what we all need and not the Anger or the Pride, the Fear and Angst of Ancient memories.  Remember that we all are brothers’ and our sisters’ keepers.  Remember that there could be Gardens for us all where we can taste the fruits of knowledge and succeed in building nations that are kind and tolerant.

AMEN AND HALLELUJAH!

THE END

© izzy sommers, md

Welland, Canada

September 3, 2013

[still kicking and loving

after all these years,

despite the dire predictions

of my doctors and my family]