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Benjamin Netanyahu stood before the United Nations and repeated a simple sentence: “We’re going to win. We have no other choice.” In his telling, the sentence connects Israel’s present wars to 1967, the Entebbe rescue, October 7, Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Bible, ancient Judea and more than three thousand years of Jewish history. It is not merely a military argument. It is an argument in which survival, history, religion, territory and destiny are fused together until questioning one part can sound like questioning all of them.
That fusion deserves examination because Netanyahu did something unusually explicit in the speech. Discussing the Golan Heights, he said Jews had been there “since the days of Moses” and told the international audience, “You can read it in the Bible.” Later, speaking about Judea, he declared, “That’s our land.” Near the end of his address, he invoked David, Solomon, Isaiah and Jeremiah and again declared the land to be the land of Israel. These were not obscure theological references buried in a sermon. They were made by the prime minister of a nuclear-armed modern state from the podium of the United Nations.
Now strip away the names and ask the question in the simplest possible form. Suppose someone appeared today carrying a book and said that God had inspired it, that the book recorded a divine promise made to his ancestors thousands of years ago, and that the promise established his people’s permanent claim to the land where another population now lives. Would the rest of humanity automatically be obligated to surrender its political rights because his book said so? Would the people already living there be required to accept the revelation of somebody else as the legal foundation of their own dispossession?
Faith can answer questions of meaning. It can tell believers where they believe humanity came from, how they should live and what they consider sacred. But when a sacred text becomes a territorial instrument, an entirely different issue appears. A person who does not believe the book cannot logically be expected to accept the book as binding law merely because another person believes it came from God. Otherwise every religion possessing a sacred geography, divine covenant or ancient kingdom could convert theology into an international land registry.
Modern international law does not settle sovereignty by asking which side possesses the oldest scripture. In its July 2024 advisory opinion, the International Court of Justice concluded that Israel was not entitled to sovereignty over any part of the Occupied Palestinian Territory on account of its occupation, and that the Palestinian people possess an inalienable right to self-determination. The Court also said security concerns cannot override the prohibition against acquiring territory by force. Whatever religious, historical and ancestral claims people may hold, those claims do not erase the legal existence or political rights of another population. (International Court of Justice)
This is where Netanyahu’s speech becomes especially revealing. He devoted enormous emotional detail to Israeli suffering. He described October 7, murdered civilians, hostages, Holocaust survivors, babies, families, soldiers, terrorism, antisemitism and attacks against Israelis. Those horrors deserve recognition. But Palestinian suffering entered his speech principally through another frame: an argument that Hamas used civilians as human shields and that Israel warned civilians, supplied food, facilitated vaccinations and attempted to prevent civilian casualties. He mentioned Palestinians, but he did not offer a comparable human portrait of Palestinian families enduring the consequences of years of war.
That absence matters because the suffering is not theoretical. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported in September 2026 that civilians in Gaza continued facing widespread destruction, displacement, shortages and life-threatening conditions. On September 16 alone, according to local health authorities cited by OCHA, twelve children were among twenty-one people killed when a war-damaged residential building collapsed. OCHA also reported that most of Gaza’s roughly 2.1 million people were approaching another rainy season in overcrowded displacement conditions, while children continued to be killed in strikes and other attacks affecting populated areas. (OCHA Palestine)
Those children did not write the Bible. They did not negotiate the Balfour Declaration. They did not participate in the Holocaust. They did not draw the borders of 1948 or 1967. They did not create Hamas, the Israeli government, Christian Zionism, Iranian policy, American foreign policy or the theology of the Second Coming. Yet children born thousands of years after the religious texts were written can still find themselves trapped inside political claims justified partly through those ancient narratives.
Then another layer enters: Christianity. Some Christians, particularly within Christian Zionist and evangelical traditions, interpret the establishment and preservation of modern Israel through biblical prophecy and the anticipated return of Jesus. That view is not Christianity as a whole, and millions of Christians reject that interpretation. But its political influence is real. Pew research has found especially high levels of belief among white evangelical Protestants that God gave the land to the Jewish people and that modern Israel fulfills prophecy connected with the Second Coming. (Pew Research Center)
Consider what an extraordinary political mechanism this creates. One population can be told that God gave it the land. Another population can be told that losing the land is an existential injustice requiring endless resistance. Millions of people thousands of miles away can be told that supporting one side participates in divine prophecy. Political leaders then no longer need to argue only about borders, water, security, settlements, refugees and human rights. They can attach those ordinary political questions to eternity.
That is an enormously powerful way to organize human beings because ordinary political disagreement becomes spiritual disagreement. Compromise can become betrayal. Territorial concession can become disobedience to God. Criticism of government policy can be portrayed as hostility toward a people or religion. Resistance can likewise become sacred. Once competing political programs become divine obligations, leaders gain something every ruler desires: followers who believe obedience extends beyond politics.
This is where “divide and rule” stops sounding like an ancient imperial technique and starts looking remarkably modern. The division need not be secretly designed by one mastermind sitting in a room. Systems of power can evolve around narratives that reward political institutions, religious organizations, governments, ideological movements, defense industries, fundraising networks and media ecosystems. Different institutions may even oppose one another while all benefiting from populations that remain frightened, divided and permanently mobilized.
The ordinary human being receives something very different. Israelis receive fear that another October 7 may happen. Palestinians receive displacement, occupation, destroyed communities and fear of another attack. Jewish communities abroad face genuine antisemitism. Muslims face genuine Islamophobia. Christians can be pulled into a geopolitical struggle through prophetic interpretations of scripture. Every population is handed a reason to fear another population while institutions above them gain loyalty, money, authority and political endurance.
And notice the structure of Netanyahu’s phrase: “We have no other choice.” It is one of the most powerful sentences available to political leadership because it eliminates alternatives before alternatives can even be discussed. If there is truly no other choice, negotiation becomes weakness, restraint becomes danger, compromise becomes suicide and continuing the struggle becomes not merely one policy among several but the only imaginable path.
Yet history is filled with governments telling their populations that there was no alternative.
There is always another question: no other choice for whom?
No other choice for the Israeli child who wants to live without rockets? No other choice for the Palestinian child who wants to sleep without explosions? No other choice for politicians whose survival depends on perpetual emergency? No other choice for religious movements whose prophecy requires history to move in a certain direction? No other choice for governments whose strategic alliances depend on the conflict continuing in recognizable form?
Those are not the same interests.
The most dangerous trick occurs when they are presented as though they are.
The Red Blood Perspective
A sacred book can be spiritually priceless to the person who believes in it without becoming a deed to another human being’s house. Historical connection can be real without granting unlimited political authority over people living in the present. Jewish history and persecution are real. October 7 was real. Palestinian dispossession and suffering are real. Antisemitism is real. The devastation experienced by Palestinian civilians is real. None of those truths cancels the others.
The moment humanity allows ancient revelation to become sufficient justification for present domination, there is no logical stopping point. Every tribe can search backward through scripture, empire, ancestry and conquest until it finds a century in which the map favors its claim. If ancient possession permanently determines modern sovereignty, much of the planet would have to be emptied, redistributed and conquered again.
Perhaps the more rational principle is much simpler: dead ancestors should not possess more political rights than living children.
The child standing in the rubble today is not responsible for a war fought three thousand years ago. The child hiding from rockets today is not responsible for the decisions of a government. The child born into Judaism, Islam or Christianity did not choose the historical narratives handed to them. Yet political systems repeatedly turn inherited stories into inherited enemies.
When leaders insist that God, history and survival all demand the same political outcome, humanity should examine the claim very carefully. God cannot be interviewed. Ancient prophets cannot appear before an international court. The dead cannot negotiate boundaries. The people who can speak are the living, and it is the living who bleed when ancient certainty becomes modern weaponry.
Ocean of Love and Positivity Perspective
The way out does not begin by replacing one sacred entitlement with another. It begins when the individual refuses to surrender conscience to inherited hatred, political fear or religious authority. A human being can respect Judaism without accepting every policy of Israel, respect Islam without accepting every action committed in its name, and follow Christianity without believing another population must suffer to complete a prophecy.
The deepest liberation may come when the individual stops asking, “Which tribe did God choose?” and begins asking, “What action creates the least suffering and the greatest possibility for human dignity right now?”
No scripture requires the heart to stop recognizing a frightened child as a frightened child.
No border prevents compassion.
No ancient promise should require hatred.
And no political leader should be permitted to turn God into the final argument after every human argument has failed.
Look inward before accepting the command to fear outward. Examine who benefits from anger, who benefits from permanent division and who pays the price. Personal sovereignty begins when inherited narratives are examined rather than automatically obeyed. Inner peace begins when another human being’s suffering is no longer filtered through nationality, religion or tribe.
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When a Sacred Book Becomes a Property Deed
Sep 24, 2026
The provided text examines how political leaders utilize ancient religious scriptures as modern legal instruments to justify territorial expansion and military action. By analyzing a speech by Benjamin Netanyahu, the author argues that blending divine prophecy with state policy creates an environment where diplomatic compromise is viewed as religious betrayal. This fusion of faith and nationalism often ignores the human rights of living populations, specifically the suffering of children and the legal standards set by international law. The source critiques the “no other choice” rhetoric used to consolidate power, suggesting that such narratives benefit institutional authorities while trapping civilians in cycles of permanent conflict. Ultimately, the text advocates for a humanitarian perspective that prioritizes individual dignity and empathy over inherited tribal grievances or centuries-old theological claims.