Our great friend and ally is stuck in a morass.
What was thought to be a quick and surgical invasion of Gaza to sort them out and win our war objectives, has meant that our NATO leader and chief supporter of Israel remains pleading with Israel to try and avoid killing so many non-combatants, especially not so many women, children and babies. There must be more precision air strikes to kill the actual attackers of Israel, our side tells them.
The West's weapons and armaments that we manufacture and export to Israel and Ukraine are ending up killing many more civilians than Hamas fighters do defending their homeland. And as Ukrainian soldiers are doing, too. Is this an ethical practice?
China invaded Tibet in 1950. It did not lead to further invasions of more countries by China, as the fear is that Russia will do once Ukraine is part of Russia. "The Dalai Lama and some 80 supporters fled into exile in India on March 31, 1959. Some 87,000 Tibetans and 2,000 Chinese government troops were killed, and some 100,000 Tibetans fled as refugees to India, Nepal, and Bhutan during the conflict." FROM: https://uca.edu/politicalscience/home/research-projects/dadm-project/asiapacific-region/chinatibet-1950-present/#:~:text=The%20Chinese%20government%20demanded%20that,)%20on%20October%2019%2C%201950.
ALL OUT WAR CAN BE AVOIDED - examples:
In South Africa, apartheid was eventually seen off without warfare and with far fewer killings than we see in Ukraine, Gaza and the West Bank.
In our own UK, after thirty years of The Troubles and over 3,000 slaughtered, many years of secret and not-so-secret talks eventually prevailed with the 1998 Good Friday Peace Agreement that ended the war.
"Jaw jaw, not war war", as our great Victorious War Leader spouted in his more reflective, declining years of greater wisdom, has turned out to be a more positive and constructive tactic.
This also happens to be in tune with what our spiritual Master, Lord and Saviour taught and practised and that we all need to follow, I think.
However, it also means having nothing to do with drones. Some end up in the arms of the military along with all their other tools of death and destruction. Some types of employment are ruled out for disciples of the Prince of Peace and the King of Love.
Can our pulpit preachers make that crystal clear to their flocks?
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