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Oklahoma schools now required to teach Bible, Ten Commandments: superintendent
Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters issued a memo Thursday informing superintendents across the state their districts are required to incorporate the Bible into lessons.
Walters said in the memo that his directive aligns with educational standards approved in May 2019.
The superintendent told Fox News Digital there is a lack of understanding about the country’s history and the influence the Bible has had since the birth of the U.S., which he blames on the radical left.
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"We’ve seen the radical leftists drive God out of schools, drive the Bible out of schools, and we have to make sure that our kids have an understanding of what made America great," said Walters.
"Not teaching our kids about the faith of our founders and the influence that the Bible had in our history is just academic malpractice."
He explained that, under his directive, instructors in every classroom across the state would have a copy of the Bible to teach from.
The teachers, Walters said, will teach the Bible from a historical context, particularly in terms of its role in American history and the influence it had on the country’s founders.
For example, when students learn about topics such as the Mayflower Compact, which predates the U.S., they will look at quotes from pilgrims referencing the Bible.
Leaders during the Civil Rights Movement also made references to the Bible.
Walters said when Martin Luther King Jr. was in a Birmingham jail, he wrote a letter referencing Bible stories.
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"So, it is essential for a historical understanding of our country’s history that the Bible is included in the curriculum, and we will be requiring it," Walters said.
Although Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signed a bill into law last week requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every classroom by 2025, Walters says Oklahoma is the first to require the Bible be used in all classrooms, effective immediately.
"We’re the first ones, and we’re very proud of that," he said. "We believe in American values. We believe that the better our students understand American history and American exceptionalism, the better off our state will be and the country will be. So, we are very proud to teach that to our students."
For those who are not religious, Walters wanted to be clear that lessons that include the Bible are strictly for historical context.
He said it is undeniable that the Bible is a historical document.
"The left can be offended, that's fine," Walters said. "They can be offended all they want, but what they can't do is rewrite history. That is our history. That is the history of this country."
In his memo Thursday, Walters said the move to incorporate the Bible was not just an educational directive "but a crucial step in ensuring our students grasp the core values and historical context of our country."
He also said the State Department of Education may supply teaching materials to ensure the message is delivered uniformly.
The new curriculum will go into effect for the 2024-25 school year, and superintendents across the state were told instructions for monitoring and reporting on the matter will be delivered in the future.
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‘None go forward without the others.’ US mega-deal would tie together the futures of Saudi Arabia, Israel and Gaza
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Saudi Arabia and the United States are finalizing the details of a landmark deal to strengthen bilateral trade and defense – but an agreement will not be reached if the kingdom and Israel do not establish diplomatic relations, US officials said.
A defense treaty would solidify the seven-decade security alliance between Saudi Arabia and the US, and tie them ever closer to each other as US adversaries like Iran, Russia and China seek to expand their influence in the Middle East. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long sought relations with Saudi Arabia, home of Islam’s holiest sites, as the move could domino across the wider Muslim world.
The US is currently negotiating one mega-deal involving three components, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Thursday.
The first component includes a package of agreements between the US and Saudi Arabia, another component has the normalization of relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel, and a third component for a pathway to a Palestinian state.
“All of them are linked together. None go forward without the others,” Miller said.
For normalization to be realized between Saudi Arabia and Israel, there has to be a pathway for a Palestinian state and “calm in Gaza,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told a panel at an economic conference in Riyadh this week.
“The work that Saudi Arabia and the United States have been doing together in terms of our own agreements, I think is potentially very close to completion, but then in order to move forward with normalization two things will be required: calm in Gaza and a credible pathway to a Palestinian state,” he said.
On the sidelines of the forum, Blinken met Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman (MBS) to discuss the deal, the State Department said. Experts describe the Saudi-US pact as a “comprehensive set of understandings” that would include security, economic and technological guarantees to the kingdom, as well as support for its civilian nuclear program.
The normalization deal is expected to be modeled on the Abraham Accords, a set of treaties that saw four Arab states recognize Israel in 2020 that sidestepped the longstanding Arab demand for an independent Palestinian state as a prerequisite to recognition of Israel. MBS had said earlier that a pact with Israel would be “the biggest historical deal since the Cold War.”
In 2021, Netanyahu described the Accords as enabling Israel to replace “the old and dangerous doctrine of territories in exchange for peace and brought peace in exchange for peace, without giving up a single inch” and sought to expand what he called the “circle of peace.”
Since then, the Biden administration has made Israel-Saudi normalization central to its Middle East policy. The US and Saudi Arabia had continued discussions on the pact in 2023, and Blinken was expected to fly to Riyadh on October 10 last year to discuss the details, just three days before Hamas attacked Israel, postponing the effort.
The subsequent Israeli assault on Gaza, which has left the enclave in ruins and killed more than 34,000 Palestinians, may have changed the parameters of the deal for Saudi Arabia, analysts say. Now Israel’s acceptance of a component calling for an “irreversible” pathway to a Palestinian state would be key to the crucial normalization component of the wider deal.
“We have the broad outlines on what needs to happen on the Palestinian front…credible, irreversible [pathway to a Palestinian state],” Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan told a World Economic Forum panel without referencing normalization with Israel.
Netanyahu has repeatedly rejected the prospect of an independent Palestinian state, arguing that it would hurt Israel’s security, and is adamant on pressing ahead with the Gaza war until Hamas is eliminated.
Those obstacles might see the kingdom attempt to close the bilateral deal without the normalization component of the agreement, analysts say. But such an approach would face major hurdles. An agreement establishing a firm US military commitment to Saudi Arabia’s security, without the normalization component, is unlikely to pass through the US Congress, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has said.
“If there is a mutual defense agreement negotiated in the form of a treaty, it needs 67 votes in the Senate to become binding. Without normalizing the Israeli-Saudi relationship and ensuring the security needs of Israel regarding the Palestinian file, there would be very few votes for a mutual defense agreement between the US and Saudi Arabia,” Graham said on X in response to reports of Saudi Arabia opting for a “plan B” to the agreement.
Experts say that Biden could be able to bypass Congress to reach the agreement by modeling it around another security agreement it signed with Bahrain last year.
“There is another pathway, modeled around the Comprehensive Security Integration and Prosperity Agreement the Biden administration signed with Bahrain in September of 2023,” according to Firas Maksad, Senior Fellow and Director for Strategic Outreach at the Middle East Institute in Washington DC. The text of that pact “explicitly states that other parties may be invited to join,” he said.
However, there has been no indication that the Biden administration would opt to bypass Congress for the bilateral agreement with Saudi Arabia to pass.
A victory for Saudi Arabia
For Saudi Arabia, a bilateral agreement with the US would be a major victory, marking an end to the era when Biden sought to undermine MBS by pledging to turn his country into a “pariah” after the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the hands of Saudi intelligence officials in Turkey.
The deal would also “consolidate America’s dominance in the Middle East for generations and would blunt the growing challenge posed by both China and Russia,” Maksad said.
MBS is eager to bolster the kingdom’s defenses and diversify the Saudi economy away from hydrocarbons, as he pursues an ambitious economic policy dubbed Vision 2030. The kingdom has a nascent civilian nuclear program that the Crown Prince is keen to develop with US support.
“Saudi Arabia would like to make a deal with the United States and this is probably the best time during the Biden administration to help some of the stickier issues get through Congress,” according to Karen Young, a senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, referring to enrichment of nuclear materials.
Another sticking point in any US support for such a program is American opposition to local enrichment of uranium, a key component for nuclear power that could also be used to develop nuclear weapons. Saudi Arabia is rich in uranium deposits and has insisted on being able to enrich it domestically, which would be a first for an Arab state. Neighboring United Arab Emirates, for example, imports enriched uranium to power its nuclear plants.
On Wednesday, Democratic Senator Edward J. Markey, co-chair of the Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control Working Group, called on the Biden administration to ensure that Riyadh commits to forego enrichment and reprocessing of nuclear material, citing MBS as saying previously that Saudi Arabia would develop a nuclear weapon if Iran does too.
“The path towards Middle East peace should not include the prospect of a nuclear-armed Saudi Arabia, which would undermine the interests of the US, allies, and partners across the region,” he said in his letter.
The Saudi-US pact would make it incumbent on both countries to work together to deter and confront any external aggression, but doesn’t formalize it as a treaty alliance, according to Maksad.
“It is often described as Article 4.5, stopping just short of a treaty alliance that requires Senate approval but providing for a written commitment of mutual defense,” Maksad said, referring to the NATO treaty’s Article 5, which obliges all member states to come to the defense of any state facing attack.
“There will still be room for a multilateral security agreement that eventually includes Israel, along with Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the U.S. and others, when political circumstances allow…the choice will be Israel’s, when it’s ready to put something on the table that moves the ball forward towards a two-state solution with the Palestinians,” Maksad said.
De Nederlandse natuurkundige Erik Verlinde kwam in 2009 en later met een afleiding van Newtons zwaartekrachtwet, uitgaande van het holografisch principe van Gerard 't Hooft.Al eerder hadden natuurkundigen als Richard Feynman een verband gelegd tussen zwaartekracht en thermodynamica. Verlinde stelt dat de kracht het gevolg is van het verschil in informatiedichtheid in de ruimte tussen twee elkaar aantrekkende massa's en de ruimte daarbuiten. In drie dimensies neemt deze dichtheid met het kwadraat van de afstand af. Volgens deze theorie is zwaartekracht geen fundamentele kracht, maar het gevolg van microscopische kwantummechanische effecten, die statistisch samen de zwaartekracht opleveren ("entropische zwaartekracht").
De alternatieve zwaartekrachtstheorie (MOND,MOdified Newtonian Dynamics), die al in 1983 door Mordehai Milgrom geformuleerd en is gespecificeerd, is sindsdien niet aangepast door astronomische waarnemingen. In een computermodel onderzoek door de The Stellar Populations and Dynamics Research Group, geleid door professor Pavel Kroupa, werd het ontstaan van een sterrenstelsel, zonder donkere materie nagebootst. De uitkomst is heel goed vergelijkbaar met de waarneembare sterrenstelsels.
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karien van gennip staat nu weer te pronken dat cda-ers niet in de nsb regering deelnemen, zij en haar cda zijn er de oorsprong en oorzaak van, stond dat weiffie in 2006 na 1 of 2 jaar als staatsecreet van economische zaken ijdel verwaand te kakelen wat zij alleen allemaal wel niet bereikt had en in 2003 voor de moordende Irak oorlog voor olie dollars van gelovige based on the bible, george bush, dick cheney, condoleezza rice en andere liegende hypocriete huichelende ijdele verdwaasde verwaande dode lijke republikeinen stemmen, kutkotss, net zoals
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