Letters: Thanks for cheerful traffic control on Anzac Parade

We are fortunate to have excellent traffic control people on Anzac Parade, writes one reader.

As the latest hold up on Anzac Pde continues, we are fortunate to have the excellent traffic control people on duty during the day.

They are unfailingly cheerful and efficient. One young chap was thanking each passing driver.

I hope NZTA accelerate their efforts. We suffered for years with their last foot dragging. [Abridged]

PETER RUSSELL
Whanganui

Israel promise

According to Biblical history, around 2000BC God promised to give the land now occupied by Israel to Abraham and his descendants (Acts 7v1-5).

This promise was reaffirmed to Abraham's son Isaac, but the other son Ishmael (Mohammed's ancestor) was not promised that land and was sent out of it resulting in his descendants ending up in Arabia (Genesis 21).

So, except for a couple of periods of forced exile, Israel occupied the land for around 2000 years, and archaeological evidence confirms this.

For example, a victory stele of Pharaoh Merneptah now housed in the Cairo Museum confirms Israel's occupation of the land by at least the 13th century BC.

Space does not allow mention of many other discoveries in Middle Eastern countries which supply the same evidence.

But in AD70 the Jews were massacred and forced into exile by the Romans and during the centuries that followed others, including the Arabs, moved in and took over, ending up regarding the land as their own.

However, Bible prophecy declared that God would see to it that the Jews returned to, and repossessed their land towards the end of world history, and become a nation again and repossess Jerusalem, their ancient capital city (Jeremiah 31v10-11, Ezekiel 37).

We have witnessed the fulfilment of this, and other prophecies teach that these events will be a precursor to a major invasion of Israel in the end-time of a confederacy of anti-Israel nations culminating in the battle of Armageddon and the second coming of Christ ...

It is very sad that so much violence and bloodshed has occurred in the conflicts between Israel and the Palestinians. There will only be peace when The Prince of Peace returns and rules. [Abridged]

BARRY HODSON

Whanganui

A better way?

I am currently taking medications involving the now commonplace pill pop sheets. The pills sit between a layer of plastic and tinfoil.

There are a number of issues regarding this. The small pills are extraordinarily hard to pop. When you do manage to, with any sized pill, the tinfoil that's popped often comes adrift, littering your floor and causing unwanted environmental hazard.

That's if you're fortunate enough not to have ingested the tinfoil with your pill which has happened to me on occasions.

Surely in this technological world a better means of dispensing pills can be sorted ... which considers environmental concerns and user convenience and health safety issues.

PAUL BABER
Whanganui

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