There should never be "a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens", as the 'good' Book has it. There is always a time to hate and war for us armed Westerners - and for centuries, too and for 1700 years for the good Christian believers. Deuteronomy 20 v 1-20 has the Rules for Waging Holy War (Jihad). Yet, we hardly needed the Bible to encourage us!
Your country of Israel, Derek is a Jewish/Muslim nation that is part of the Christian, Western, democratic power bloc. Yet again, my taxes have helped to horrifically kill very many more non-combatants than the Gazan armed soldiers who fire so many out of date or home made rockets that kill no-one (or even injure, it seems) anyone in Israel. This time over 500 children out of over 2,100 Gazans wiped off the map. Cold blooded murder by your side! Many thousands of innocents injured and 300,000 Gazans displaced. £4 billion to rebuild after 50 days of death and destruction on Gaza. We all need to get a grip over our morality and what is lawful. Is it really the armed Muslims annihilating the Jews? Or is it the Jews and Christians annihilating the Muslims every few years in our five wars since the 7 October 2001? Should the US/UK/Israel be above the law in this way? Our side gets away with it time and again because we are the powerful nations, the top dogs who rule the roost in the United Nations.
Please tell me how this can be more morally upright than what the military, armed Muslims are doing in their killings. And, this, after 100 years of the Christian, Western nations throwing their weight around in the Middle East to ensure our oil security and victory in our 20th century wars!
Our Jewish/Christian, Western over-reaction to ineffective rockets from Gaza and imposing democracy and regime change down the barrel of a gun in Afghanistan and Iraq has set an extremely bad example to Islam and the Arabs. Unsurprisingly, they are now doing what we have been doing for 100 years and, in their region of the world, too!
This is Desmond Tutu's opinion of things. Mine is to follow, in due course - even longer than yours, 'cos I've been working on it over the course of Israel's latest war!
Meanwhile, from what you have just sent me, it is immoral to do what we don't like our enemies doing to us. Please don't you descend, Derek to their bestial, barbaric and brutal behaviour, as Israel has done with Gaza. Follow the example of Jesus Christ and not the men of violence. Overcome evil with good, bless those who curse you and pray for your persecutors. Treat others, Derek as you would like them to treat you!
The idea is not really to nuke Hamas off the face of the earth as I have, tongue in cheek, suggested to Israel a few weeks ago. We are not meant to kill as many as possible before they kill us! But, its fine, of course, to kill any old Muslim in revenge for them killing an American, a Brit or an Israeli.
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