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"Fetch me a sword"
The king said, “Fetch me a sword,” and they brought a sword before the king. The king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one and half to the other.”
The woman whose son was the live one said to the king—for her compassion was aroused for her son—and she said: “O my lord, give her the living child, and by no means kill him.”
But the other said, “Let it be neither mine nor yours; divide it.”The king answered and said, “Give her the living child, and by no means kill him: she is his mother.”
The woman whose son was the live one said to the king—for her compassion was aroused for her son—and she said: “O my lord, give her the living child, and by no means kill him.”
But the other said, “Let it be neither mine nor yours; divide it.”The king answered and said, “Give her the living child, and by no means kill him: she is his mother.”
Were there a King Solomon alive today who witnessed the difference, yesterday, between the indigenous people of Israel who love their land and will do anything to protect it, and the colonizers who set fire to the land, destroying forests, killing nature, saying with their actions as the prostitute in the above story said, kill the child so no one could have it . . . well, it is easy to see who loves the land and who hates it; who belongs to the land and who wants only to destroy it so no one else can have it.