Rockets into Israel & Bombing Gaza

That’s the only perspective that I can see. How do you compromise with people who hate you more than they love their own children? And how can we condemn people who go to such extraordinary effort to protect innocent lives, knowing that doing so places their own families at greater risk? We have no perspective to appreciate that kind of faith and courage.
Peace comes about through three things: God’s love, mutually recognized rational self interest, and victory. With the entire world united in opposition to Israel doing what is necessary to achieve victory, military action will not bring peace. They simply lack the moral and political will to destroy their adversaries. Radical Islam remains committed to teaching their children that their salvation lies in Israel’s destruction, so there is little hope of appealing to self interest. And scripture tells us God has planned all along for the chosen land of His people to be the scene for the battles to come, so appealing to His love isn’t likely to prevent what has already been preordained.
I pray for the children who will suffer due to the blind hatred of their elders. I pray for deliverance and forgiveness for those who are forced to make hard choices and take life to protect life. I pray for quick but thorough end for those who are motivated by hatred and a misguided sense of religious duty to live and die by the sword. And I pray for those whose love, faith and compassion motivates them to reject reason and reality to embrace a utopian fantasy that would have others embrace risks that they would not themselves find tolerable.

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