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Newsletter Nr. 1.428
Amsterdam, Oktober 13, 2025


Trump's New Israel-Hamas Peace Deal: Hope, Illusion, or Realignment? - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

When Donald Trump announced that his mediation had helped produce a new peace deal between Israel and Hamas, the news reverberated through a region weary of bloodshed and suspicion. The plan, now being called the Gaza Peace Plan or Trump's 20-point framework, promises to halt hostilities, return hostages, and begin the reconstruction of Gaza under new administrative arrangements. Yet, as with previous Middle Eastern peace initiatives, the deeper question remains: what does this mean for the Palestinian people—not just in Gaza, but across their fragmented national landscape?

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The Paradox of Divine Sacrifice: How Christianity Turned a Tragedy into Theology - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

Few doctrines in the history of religion are as paradoxical as the central claim of Christianity: that Jesus of Nazareth—proclaimed both fully human and fully divine—had to die a brutal death to redeem humanity from sin, and to save us from the wrath of the very God he was said to embody. Beneath its poetic language of sacrifice and salvation lies a deep logical and moral contradiction that has haunted Christian theology for two millennia.

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https://www.integralworld.net/visser609.html