INNOCENT OR BLIND TO DANGER
Some people are worried about frictions being generated between Japan and the U.S. The issue is mostly concerned with the U.S. Marine redeployment scheme from Okinawa, Japan, to Guam, America.
America does not move all the Marine troops, about 10,000, to Guam at one stretch but plans to keep its air station and helicopter squads in Okinawa.
Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama is listening to anti-American voices of Okinawa residents, since U.S. military bases account for almost 20% of the island.
Yet, some influential American experts have visited Tokyo recently to check the situation.
Mr. Michael Green made a TV appearance yesterday on a popular news show of a Japanese TV channel. He claimed that the Japan-U.S. tie was not merely for joint security but for more vast alliance in diplomacy and economy, including the anti-global warming policy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Green_(political_expert)
Today there are three million jobless persons in Japan alone. If Japan becomes an enemy of America, 10 million more workers will lose jobs not only in Japan but also in America.
You still have to study the Great Depression and the Japan-China war leading to the Pearl Harbor attack, since nobody in the world wants war between Japan and the U.S. as well as Japan and China any more.
SECTION I: Josephus (AD 37 – c. 100)
It is very strange that great author Josephus who eventually lived under protection of the Roman Emperor in Rome did avoid mentioning in his great books Jesus Christ and His influences having been left in Galilee, Jerusalem, and other regions of ancient Israel:
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Josephus, who introduced himself in Greek as "Iosepos (Ιώσηπος), son of Matthias, an ethnic Jew, a priest from Jerusalem",[7] fought the Romans in the First Jewish-Roman War of 66–73 as a Jewish military leader in Galilee. After the Jewish garrison of Yodfat was taken under siege, the Romans invaded, killing thousands; the survivors committed suicide.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus
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It is just after one generation from the emergence and the death of Jesus Christ that Josephus took part in the war against the Romans.
Indeed, it has been a well-discussed great enigma of 2000 years that one of the greatest authors of mankind never mentioned Jesus Christ who appeared just a generation ago.
Today's notable authors on history would surely mention the Pearl Harbor, JFK, the Vietnam War, and the Persian Gulf War or the fall of the Berlin Walls. But Josephus far greater than any authors of today never mentioned Jesus Christ and His influence having been left in Galilee while he was a Jewish military leader in Galilee in the war against the Roman troops.
Or should we ask what exactly happened after the death of Jesus Christ around A.D. 34 till the First Jewish-Roman War of 66–73?
One clue might be found from a Josephus' testimony of the war that erupted one generation after the death of Jesus Christ:
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He disputes the claim[citation needed] that the Jews served a defeated God, and were naturally hostile to Roman civilization. Rather, he blames the Jewish War on what he calls "unrepresentative and over-zealous fanatics" among the Jews, who led the masses away from their traditional aristocratic leaders (like himself), with disastrous results. Josephus also blames some of the Roman governors of Judea, but these he represents as atypical: corrupt and incompetent administrators.
Thus, according to Josephus, the traditional Jew was, should be, and can be, a loyal and peace-loving citizen. Jews can, and historically have, accepted Rome's hegemony precisely because their faith declares that God himself gives empires their power.
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What appeared after the death of Jesus Christ were "unrepresentative and over-zealous fanatics" who multiplied until the defeat by the Romans.
If there had not been the hand of the God behind the scene, what else was there driving Israelites to the fate in war, while they knew well of the fates of Egypt and other nations?
Specifically, something at the core of their religion must have requested them to fight against the materialistic Romans and their hegemony.
And, God could give them power to establish an empire as great as the Roman Empire; they must have probably thought so. In other word, they might test God.
But, how can we blame those insurgent Israelites, since they might have been entitled to claim that their God should let them defeat the Roman Empire, since the Son of the God was born among them some 60 years ago, with a name of Jesus?
Anyway, to our astonishment, Josephus, a priest from Jerusalem and a Jewish military leader in Galilee, did not know anything about Jesus Christ. The knowledgeable man living just one generation after Jesus Christ did not know anything about Jesus Christ though Jerusalem and Galilee were so much associated with Jesus Christ.
Or did Josephus avoid mentioning Jesus Christ to save his life?
Indeed, it is the only reasonable conclusion, since he faild to be the fifth Gospel author.
SECTION II: INTERACTION FORCES
(To be continued...)
Mar 12:5 And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some.
Mar 12:6 Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son.
Mar 12:7 But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be our's.
Mar 12:8 And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
Mar 12:9 What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.