I don't know how many of you have been following the news recently, but there has been a lot going on the Middle East. First some guerrillas from Lebanon attacked Israeli soldiers and then Israel fought back by blowing up anything and everything and even hitting some Palestinian targets.
This is just such a mess. There is so much hatred and violence there. So much death. In many ways, it is heartbreaking. And nobody does anything. We just let them fight it out. The US has decided to side with Israel many of these times, and so we don't always think about the horrible things that the Israelis do to the Palestinians.
Both sides need to chill and people needs to stop taking ideological sides. Maybe then, everything will calm down and talking can happen. I don't know, it is just something that has really saddened me over the past couple of days.
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Forgive me for playing a little Devil's advocate here, but what exactly are the Isrealis supposed to do? They are a people group that has been openly unwelcome in virtually every nation that have tried to live in, often times being murdered wholesale just for existing. Finally, the are able to find a homeland, a land that you and I both believe God promised them. They give an open invitation for the other inhabitants of that land to live with them as friends and all they get in return is death. After years of war they finally give up some of the land that they paid for in blood so that the other inhabitants could also have a homeland. What do they get in return? Death and criticism. I agree, it would be great if they could sit down and talk, but that would require the Palestinians to express a desire to talk and to demonstrate the ability to control themselves.
Who's to say that is their land? God promised the Israelites, but did He promise the modern day Israelis? I don't know, maybe not.
Actually, I think that there is pretty strong genealogical evidence to the fact that many of the Jews that returned to Isreal during the Aliyahs of the early 20th Century were descendants of the Isrealites of the Roman Diaspora that spread the Jews into Europe. We should talk sometime.
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