Peace in the Middle East looks so far away but in reality it is but one simple step away and that step is being taken this week in Annapolis, Maryland, the land of Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, the Jewish born Rabbi and Messiah of Christianity and Islam. (Koran Sura Chapter 3:40-43). Two billion people, 33% of the people on earth are Christian. 1.3 billion people, 20% of the people on earth are Muslim. 15 million people, 0.2 % of the people on earth are Jewish. The one simple step to everlasting peace in the Middle East is for these 3 groups to now make everlasting peace.

Just when it looked like peace in the Middle East was a pipe dream, the seeds of world peace were planted by King Abdullah II and Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan two months ago and they are about to take root in Annapolis, Maryland. Queen Noor is the Grace Kelly of Jordan. She is a gorgeous woman and peace activist named Lisa Halaby who was born in the United States of America in Washington, D.C. Lisa’s late father Najeeb Halaby was born in Dallas, Texas, and served as a United States Navy test pilot in World War II. Like God of Mount Sinai, aka Allah, God the Father, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit, Yehovah, Elohim, he had 3 children, Lisa, Christian and Alexa. He graduated from Stanford University and Yale Law School and went on to become a senior official in the United States Department of Transportation and then C.E.O. and Chairman of Pan Am. As Pan Am Chairman he helped christen the very first Boeing 747.

In 1980 King Hussein of Jordan, the late husband of Queen Noor, founded the Royal Academy Aal Al-Bayt Institute in Amman Jordan. It is the home of moderation and tolerance in the Muslim World. This past September 2007, the Academy under the patronage of King Abdullah II presented a 29 page letter at a conference called “Love in the Koran.” This letter was signed by 138 world wide Shiite, Sunni, and Sufi Muslim Scholars, political and religious leaders and then sent to Pope Benedict XVI, The Archbishop of Canterbury, and the leaders of all Christian Churches worldwide.

The letter is called, “A Common Word, Love”, and it calls for the unification of Islam and Christianity under their same Divine origin, the same Abrahamic Heritage, and the same two greatest commandments, “Love God”, and “Love your neighbor as you love yourself.” The letter and the unbelievably positive Christian, Jewish and world wide media responses can be found at the official website of a common word love, www.acommonword.com Go to the website and read the letter and the Christian and Jewish and media responses and click on the right to endorse a common word, as thousands representing millions of people have done already.

The letter has already spread across the entire world like a peace balm. You wouldn’t know it because the media seems to focus on the negative events in the world while ignoring the positive ones. Perhaps Rupert Murdoch and his friends in the media should pick up a copy of “The Power of Positive Thinking” by Protestant preacher and author Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. What the world media should be talking about now is the coming together now of Christianity, Islam and Judaism as evidenced by the Muslim, Christian and Jewish responses on the official website of “A Common Word, Love”.

The world media should be telling the people of earth that recently Pope Benedict XVI held an interfaith meeting in Naples, Italy, in which he declared that never again was religion or God to be used as a justification for war. Pope Benedict XVI put an end to Christian Crusades forever. The Archbishop of Canterbury who is the leader of the world wide Anglican Church embraced the letter and pledged to devote the rest of his life to making peace among Christians, Muslims and Jews and everyone else. The Chief Rabbis of Israel embraced the letter as well as Muslim, Jewish and Christian scholars, religious and political leaders across the world.

After his speech in Naples, Pope Bendict XVI embraced the Archbishop of Canterbury. Catholocism and Protestantism are now uniting for peace after being apart for hundreds of years. The Eastern Orthodox Church is reuniting with the Catholic Church for peace after breaking apart 1,400 years ago. After his historic speech, Pope Benedict XVI sat down for lunch with the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Chief Rabbi of Israel Yonah Metzger and a head Ayatollah of Iran. This coming together is unprecedented, and now the snowball of peace is growing larger as it is bringing together for the first time ever the moderate leaders of Israel, the United States, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Palestine, Egypt, the Arab League and and 50 countries at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland beginning this Monday, November 26, 2007.

That is the good news. Here is the bad news. The goal of Annapolis is to achieve everlasting peace in the entire Middle East. What good will it do to create a Palestinian state now while Shiite extremists in Iran, Iraq, Hamas, Lebanon, Hezbollah, and Sunni extremists in Afghanistan, Al Qaeda and the Taliban are building nuclear reactors and nuclear bombs and screaming in the streets of Iran and Gaza, “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”? As the letter states, our weapons today are too powerful and nuclear world war 3 and its aftermath nuclear winter then ultraviolet summer will have no survivors. “The only way to win nuclear world war 3 is to prevent it”, said John F. Kennedy.

Noticably absent from the Annapolis guest list are Iran and its Palestinian arm, Hamas, who are both calling for the destruction of Israel. Israel is armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons and any attack by Iran or Hamas upon Israel will render the entire Middle East and perhaps the world uninhabitable forever. Your car cannot run on radioactive gasoline. This is why Annapolis is in fact a war council, to prepare an attack on Iran, which if it becomes nuclear will unite with Muqtada al Sadr and try to conquer the entire Middle East.

Until now, President Bush has been playing with his hands tied behind his back in Iraq. The United States alone is so powerful that using its full arsenal of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons, it could incinerate Iran and Iraq in under five minutes. The fact that the Middle East peace conference put together by the former Provost of Stanford University Dr. Condoleezza Rice is being held at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis is to remind Iran that the United States Navy is sitting just off their shore and the moderate Muslim World, the Christians and Israel have now formed an unbeatable coalition against them.

Very shortly, this coalition is going to obliterate Iran, the head of the Palestinain Hamas and Lebanese Hezbollah and Iraqi Mahdi Army snake, unless Iran right now agrees to forego building nuclear bombs, and agrees to henceforth live in peace with Israel. This is the plan of the moderate Christian, Muslim and Jewish world, and their plan to create everlasting peace in the Middle East, including a safe, secure, prosperous and free Israel and Palestine. All it will take to achieve this free Palestine will be for Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei to join hands with King Abdullah II of Jordan and his Muslim neighbors. The Prophet Muhammad said to the Muslim, Christian and Jewish people, “God of Mount Sinai will one day bring you all together; verily god is all powerful.” (Koran Sura 2:143).

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, you were not invited, but if you get on an airplane today and fly to Annapolis with an olive branch, I assure you that you will be greeted with open arms by the other children of God of Mount Sinai, Islam, Christianity and Judaism. As your Prophet King David of Israel said 3,000 years ago, 1,600 years before the birth of Islam, “You are gods, children of God of Mount Sinai, all of you.” (Psalm 82:6). The wave of divine peace and love is too strong now, and it will not be held back by one man. 3,200 years ago Allah carved His will in stone and the Prophet Muhammad (the holy spirit of peace and light and love be upon him and upon you) agreed to this covenant over and over again in the Koran. Allah commanded, “Do not Murder”, “Do not steal”, “Do not lie about people”, “Do not covet your neighbor’s land”, otherwise I will punish you, your children, your grandchildren and your great grandchildren. In your greed and in your infidelity to these words, you are about to lose it all. Be grateful for your blessings, and come to Annapolis with an olive branch. You will achieve by peace what you will never achieve by war, a safe, secure, prosperous and free Palestine.