Some explanation: I was asked about the link between the main text above, and the sidebar on Korach. So to perhaps bring a little clarity:
The reference to Korach is admittedly a bit oblique ... not directly linked. I left it like that because in my twisted mind it is a story that makes me think about the power struggles that go on inside of Israel, whereas from the outside we often perceive Israel as this homogeneous nation. Yet Israel is a democratic nation with secular and various strains of religious factions competing in an internal power struggle under the threat of external aggression, and all the time heavily dependent on foreign support. And so it has been at various times in the biblical history of Israel. Second, the Korach story made sense to me because its a glimpse of how the tribe of Reuben tried to strategically gain hold of something that God was not intending for them, and they ended up being relegated to the lesser of the tribes, ultimately to become one of the 10 lost tribes. It makes me wonder if the factions currently in power within Israel are perhaps being a 'Reuben'? I have no idea if that's the case, but it makes me wonder.
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