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One meaning of number 55 is linked to King Manasseh of Judah. He was the longest reigning monarch of either the Kingdom of Judah or Israel at 55 years (2Kings 21:1, 2Chronicles 33:1). He first co-ruled with his father, the righteous Hezekiah, from 696 to 686 B.C. He then became sole king from 686 until his death in 642.
Manasseh’s reign of 55 years marked one of the most evil and violent periods in the history of God’s people. The king indulged in various forms of evil, such as rebuilding the pagan altars torn down by his father (2Kings 21:3). This rebuilding even included erecting idolatrous altars within the confines of Jerusalem’s temple (verses 4 – 5)! He also willingly burned one of his sons alive as a sacrifice to a pagan deity (verses 6).
Manasseh was so unique in his bloodiness that God’s word states the following.
“Manasseh also shed very much innocent blood until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin in doing the evil in the sight of the Lord” (2Kings 21:16).
TOKYO, September 27. /TASS/. A public funeral ceremony for former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was held on Tuesday at the Nippon Budokan (Japan Martial Arts Hall) in central Tokyo, a TASS correspondent reported.
This is the country’s first public funeral since 1967. A large photo of Shinzo Abe, an urn with the politician’s ashes, his awards, the Japanese national flag with a black mourning ribbon and baskets of white chrysanthemums, symbolizing grief, were displayed at the Nippon Budokan.
After the national anthem, a minute of silence and the passing of a guard of honor, a memorable video showing the most memorable moments of Abe’s political biography was shown on screens installed in the hall.
Prime Minister Kishida delivered his farewell address, referring, as is the Japanese custom, to a photograph of the deceased. He recalled the highlights of Abe’s biography, noting that he was the longest serving prime minister in Japanese history. Pointing to Abe’s active diplomacy, Kishida stressed that he actively worked to “build a free and open Indo-Pacific region.”
The United States, Britain and Japan in the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1967-1974: the competing claims of the Cold War and oil
Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy
Erika Miller
Political Economy
From the 1967 June War through to the 1973 October War and the consequent energy crisis that concluded in 1974, the US, UK and Japan were involved in the Middle East military and political conflicts.
Six-Day War, also called June War or Third Arab-Israeli War or Naksah, brief war that took place June 5–10, 1967, and was the third of the Arab-Israeli wars.
Britain and Japan, although facing important domestic issues, effectively supported both America’s Middle East and energy policies, thus putting the United States in the position of leader of the peace process.
However, the argument challenges the accepted view that neither Anglo-American nor US-Japanese relations were important factors in the development of the Middle East politics during that period. Using important primary sources, this thesis contends that this view is oversimplified and is because previous research has focused primarily either on the Cold War history or the history of oil, failing to address the important overlap.
This thesis focuses on viewing both fields not as distinct, separate areas but as part of the whole. This allows the author to reveal two important historical landscapes. Firstly, Britain considered that working closely with the United States in the field of oil politics provided the only alternative way to preserve the West’s interests in the Middle East. Britain’s policy for ‘harmonisation’ with Europe regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict had to be sacrificed in the short-term in order to favour the bigger, more ambitious interests of the West as a whole in the longer term.
Therefore, Britain supported America’s Middle East peace process, by trying to minimise Europe’s individual peace initiatives. Secondly, while the Japanese government had a seemingly ambivalent attitude towards the Arab-Israeli conflict and the on-going conflict between the oil producer countries and oil companies, the Foreign Ministry, in fact preferred to follow the American leadership in the region, for reasons of national security and Cold War imperatives.
The Japanese response to the 1972 Lod Airport Massacre, a radicalised Japanese New Left terrorist attack, revealed the Foreign Ministry’s determination to demonstrate the country’s more active support of the US-centred camp in order to gain international credibility. Neither did the 1973 Arab oil embargo undermine their position. Although Japan’s Cabinet eventually issued a public statement to support the Arab cause, in order to satisfy the Japanese people, the pro-American contingent, behind the scenes, succeeded surreptitiously in bringing the Cabinet together to uphold the American-led petroleum order as well as the US leadership in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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