1) WHY THE USA
WENT TO WAR.

2) TRIANGLES AND
THE SIX-POINTED
STAR OF DAVID.
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Hi Izak, how are you?

These are tense times and I fear for our troops.
For our nation, one of my greatest fears is that false information was fed to
our government for the purpose of destroying Saddam Hussein and that the U.S.
government has been duped by some group inside Iraq. If we must have war, at
least the reasons we give for it need to be true. The humanitarian factor alone
is tremendously important, but it was not the reason we gave for declaring war.
I do not want our nation to appear like a complete fool in the international
arena. They found a chemical plant today. I hope it is part of the evidence we
need.

Lately, I have been thinking about the symbol of the triangle. It must have
specific significance to you because the Star of David is comprised of two
triangles. I thought perhaps it has something to do with Unity, but thought I
would ask.

Dear Y:

Thank you for your Email.

I do NOT think that the USA government has been "duped" about Iraq. It is part of a larger picture in which militant fanatical Islamic Arabs, both as "groups" and as Nations, have taken up arms against the United States. On September 11th ,2001, they proved the scope of their fanaticism and hatred and what they were capable of doing. In this context, the United States invaded Afghanistan and destroyed the Taliban , and now it is in Iraq destroying their evil regime. In 1980 the Israelis went to the trouble of obliterating Iraq's nuclear reactor as it was being readied to produce nuclear weapons. Now the United States has in its hands reliable information that Iraq has dangerous chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction and they are rooting out the rot at its source.
The Sept 11 hijackers and their broad network in Al Quaida were a representative group of Arabs from many Arabic/Islamic countries. They made a collosal error in attacking the United States, just as the Japanese blundered when they attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, sixty years before Sept 11th 2001. Just as the United States had to rise up and defend its national and strategic interests against the Japanese, it is now called upon to do the same against Arabic people and countries, who are armed with deadly weapons, filled with their wealth from oil, and driven by extreme Islamic rage. They will learn, as did the Japanese, that it is too dangerous for them to attack the United States of America which has been chosen and blessed by Almighty God to play the role of "Leader of the World". If the Arabs insist on being stubborn they may yet have atom bombs dropped on them as happened to the Japanese. This is very, very serious business. Literally a "life-and-death struggle."

Regarding the triangle and its symbolism, and what the two triangles in the "Star (literally, 'shield' in Hebrew 'magen') of David" denote. The best explanation that I have heard about it is that a triangle ( any triangle ) consists of 180 degrees if you add up the three inside corners. (This we should know from our high school geometry. In case you are not familiar, the angles of ANY triangle add up to 180 degrees. ) Now, 180 degrees is a semi-circle, a half of a circle. TWO triangles combined give you 360 degrees which is a complete CIRCLE. So the "secret" of the two triangles is that they are really a circle. In fact two triangles with each angle being exactly 60 degrees will yield a perfect circle traveling around on the outside. The circle is one the greatest concepts. It is has neither a "beginning" nor an "end" it is just a constant, continual, continuum, which is similar to God's essence: He has no beginning and no end , He is constant continual, transcending time and place. He always WAS in the past, He IS now in the present, and He will always BE in the future.
Futhermore everything in nature moves in circles.The planets' rotations, the shape of flowers, the way our hair grows on our heads all being circles and spirals. However, Man's mark is a straight line. Man builds structures that run in predominantly straight lines, in all directions. So the six lines of the two triangles in a Star of David denote Man's way of working in this world. This "Jewish Star" is associated with King David as he supposedly was the one to adopt it as his symbol on his shield, meaning , so to speak, he made it his "Coat of Arms". King David in a sense "completes" God's plan for this world as he is chosen to be the literal "annointed" (in Hebrew "mashiach = "messiah") King'of the Jews and the greatest king on God's Earth. That would fit into the "circle" side encircling the two triangles. The actual triangles themselves and their lines would denote King David's super-human efforts to fight Israel's enemies, build up the Land of Israel , conquer Jerusalem ( called "The City of David") and most importantly his desire to BUILD God's Temple on the Temple Mount in the heart of Jerusalem, which his son Solomon would do instead.

In a different vein, the SIX POINTS of the two triangles of the Star of David, represent the six dimensions of a cube, and all physical nature: Top - Bottom . Left - Right. In - Out . Or alternately, in Geographic terms: North - South.
East - West. Top (Heaven) - Bottom (Earth). And at the center of it all is the ultimate "locus" of it all, and "invisible" yet real entity, that brings it all together, God.

It could also be that the six points represent the Six Days of Creation, with the Seventh Day being the Sabbath that unites it all and makes it into ONE United Creation of God.

There are also Mystical and Kabbalistic meanings and interpretations, but I am not familiar with that area of knowledge. It may even be the most significant area of all since symbols and mathematics are strong components of Jewish mystical teachings.
Anyhow, these are just some of the things that I've picked up over the years.
Best wishes,
Izak.

- posted by Izak @ 9:30 PM