AVI BINUR: MERCY GATE בָּרוּךְ הַשֵׁם
MJL: Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, had visions of peace with an independent Christian country in Lebanon: David hoped to create a coalition of like-minded religious minorities [Coptic Christians, Lebanese Christians, Assyrian Christians, Persian Christians, for example, besides Kurdistan as mutual neighbors] in Lebanon. But nothing came of the idea. 
"Do not grant them (חֲניָּה) in the land." (Avodah Zarah 20a)

Walang ligaya sa lupa na hindi dinilig ng luha.

Filipino Proverb: There is no earthly bliss not watered by tears.

Bnei Lot are of an ancient origin. In the migratory tradition of Ruth begun more than two millennia ago, a remnant of David and Solomon migrated into Maritime Southeast Asia which comprises what is now Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, The Philippines, and Singapore, as well as Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, with a sizeable minority of Malays migrating back to their tribal allotments in Sephardic Judah, besides Terrestrial and Figurative Jordan.