Indefensible actions
The Israelis’ actions are indefensible ... stealing a people’s homeland, terrorizing them and pretending it didn’t happen. Zionists worked with the Nazis removing the “Jews” from Germany and into Palestine to claim their territorial right due the population.
When a people are violated, they typically don’t acquiesce ... they make a stand. The casualty numbers reveal this — 2,143 Palestinian casualties and 70 Israelis. The deal with Egypt is no deal, as the military leader (Sisi) is a Mossad agent according to Veterans Today. Why would the Palestinians agree to disarm unilaterally without the Israelis also? This is the same trick of the U.N. — by its definition “peace” equals disarming the world — except the multinational forces.
The key passage of Scripture addressing the Israelites and the land is Deuteronomy 28, i.e. blessings and curses for faithfulness to Yahweh. The nation was expelled from the land three times with no change of attitude. So why would Christians imagine they are being blessed now?
That’s not good logic, let alone good hermeneutics or exegesis. But there’ve been forces pushing this idea for the Zionists a long time and Christians have been falling for it (especially since the publication of the Scofield Study Bible in 1907).
The Kansas newspaper article about C.I. Scofield’s legal judgment for the abandonment of his wife and two daughters spelled his name “Schonfield,” which is very similar to a key fellow among the Sabbatean-Frankist movement of Kabalistic Jews from back in the 1700s, whose name was Schonfeld.
Bob Akers, Denton
No excuse
My wife and I were walking our dogs at North Lakes Park recently, as we often do, and enjoyed the smell of fresh-cut grass as the groundskeepers continued their expert work on the fields. Our eyes shifted to the large garbage containers that were the weekly recipient of the sports participants refuse.
We were particularly curious to see a huge bag of plastic bottles stuffed into the garbage/landfill container and not in the recycling container. This seemed curious as the parks now have blue (recycling) and green (landfill) garbage cans.
Curiosity got the best of me, so I peeked inside the large recycling container to find that it was totally empty. None of the content of the blue recycling cans was clean enough to be recycled.
To me, this is an obscenity that has no excuse in this day and age. For a city that proudly sponsors a cutting-edge recycling program on Mayhill Road, do we now have to hire city workers to sort through our refuse containers because the citizenry is color blind? Is it not possible for parents to teach their children that recycling goes in the blue and garbage in the green, and then to set the example for them?
I know our city leaders desperately wish to have us counted as a top city in the U.S., but when it comes to this type of obscenity, we are at the bottom of the heap.
Jeff Bradetich, Denton
Allow fracking
Although I recently retired as chancellor of Texas Woman’s University, I remain interested in the future of Denton. I am writing to express concern over the vote that will be taken Nov. 4 to ban all hydraulic fracturing within city limits.
When I moved to Denton 15 years ago, both TWU and Denton needed to grow. Both have successfully done so. TWU has grown over 80 percent in enrollment and that has engendered investment back into scholarships, facilities, faculty and staff — into a more successful, ambitious and quality-driven university.
Denton echoes that progress. Before moving here, I had never known a city that advertised it was “closed for business.” That attitude reversed and the results are obvious:
* The Square and downtown are destinations for urban living, entertainment, dining and other business;
* The three higher education institutions bring students, but much more in the dollars spent as consumers and in the workforce they provide;
* The city has successfully made Denton a destination for medical care.
All this and more suggest a vibrant, forward-looking city. To shut out a bedrock industry of Texas from producing in Denton is, in my opinion, going backward.
Absolutely, the industry must be regulated. Environmental and health risks must be understood and addressed. Communication must be truthful and forthcoming. This can occur if all parties work together, are open-minded and fair.
I hope that the referendum to ban hydraulic fracturing within Denton city limits is defeated and that Denton chooses to continue being a city that seeks economic well being for itself and its residents.
Ann Stuart, Ph.D., chancellor/president emeritus Texas Women’s University
