Salam Fayyad - Prime minister of the Palestinian Authority from 2007 - 2013 met in 2009 with a little german delegation of evangelical bishops in Ramallah. Asked what was for him the way to peace he mentioned the important role of the little group of christians in muslim countries.
The main contribution of christians he said, would be the constant recollection of non-violence in the solution of the imminent conflicts. As a muslim, he understood the political ethics of Christians so that non-violence has a very high place in resolving conflicts.
He as a Muslim was impressed to find in the teaching of Jesus that Jesus follows his way very clearly but he had always remained nonviolent.
And he recollected a saying of Jesus about non-violence to achieve political goals. Salaam Fayyad had evidently in mind the beatitude of Jesus: "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth, the land."
The article shows also that "meek" in the greek sense meant not apathy but the a courage to trust in god and remain non-violent, non-ruthless. Its about remaining meek in the face of violence. If you look at the situation from a "meek" perspective you would even see that this beatitute certainly is already fulfillilng now and not only in the utopic future.
In german the word for "meekness" is "Sanftmut", sanft + mut, meek+mettle not only gentle+temper.
The biblical word for meekness means also a mettle in non-violence, this is exactly a absolut diametrical statement in which Jesus wants us to have trust, that meekness, nonviolence will lead to make people possesors of the land, that is how gods kingdom works he says, in which would govern other norms, namely love and those who could see it would understand it.
And again contrary to the JW-position here are not meant the "landlords" or "princes" or fake "144000 kings" that will govern as "rulers" over the land but really meek ones. Exactly what JW await, a governmental power for the meek ones once in high position, is that what Jesus condemns here and otherwhere, when he says that there would be no "positions" in the kingdom anymore.
I think so, because Jesus and the gospelwriter are referring also to the Psalmist who reads: The poor will inherit the earth. - Here is again this diametrical saying, that seems also total irrealistic and utopical ...the poor will never inherit or possess something, You see that this is a word of hope, an encouragment to look with other perspective unto the facts. And the POOR dont have any positions in the world too. It is not meant that the poor really will possess or overtake everything. It is only a saying. Any possession dont play a role in gods kingdom
Obvioulsy Jesus spoke of an other perspective to solve the problems of the world and he used a known Psalm to express this.
http://www.kirche-mv.de/fileadmin/PEK-Downloadtexte/091108_KanzeltauschHeide.pdf
