What our nation’s leaders said about Gaza after Saturday’s horrific massacre – and even more, what they failed to say – is all the proof we need: according to the US government, Palestinians are officially invisible. As reported Sunday in If Americans Knew: The death toll in Israel’s massive Saturday raid on the Nuseirat refugee camp has risen to 274, with more than 698 others injured, according to Gaza’s health ministry. This fresh horror in Nuseirat comes just two days after... Read more
Did you know that the United Nations has a blacklist of countries that harm children in conflict? Me neither. The list includes Afghanistan, Congo, Mali, Myanmar, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Syria and groups such as Al-Qaeda, Daesh, Al-Shabaab and Boko Haram. Soon, it will also include Israel (as well as Hamas). Reuters reports: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has added Israel’s military to a global list of offenders for committing violations against children in 2023. The global list is included in... Read more
Public service announcement for folks out there who are indignant about the fact that “Hamas started this trouble, and now Hamas wants to be rewarded with a state.” Look, we don’t need an international law to tell us that the right to self-determination belongs to everyone – but just to be on the safe side, it is part of the United Nations charter. All members of the United Nations pledge to uphold this right in the global community. Therefore, basic... Read more
This tweet from the official X account of the Prime Minister of Israel is problematic on many, many levels. Here are just a few. But first, of course, the tweet, referencing an interview he gave for French TV: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview on French TV Channel TF1: "I say: Our victory is your victory. Our victory is the victory of Israel against antisemitism. It is the victory of Judeo-Christian civilization against barbarism. It is the victory of... Read more
Israel’s massive attack on a tent encampment in Rafah targeted two Hamas leaders, but incinerated 45 mostly women and children in a location Israel had deemed safe. The damage control began almost immediately. Let’s unpack. THE LIE: Reuters reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the strike had not been intended to cause civilian casualties. “In Rafah, we already evacuated about 1 million non-combatant residents,” he said in a speech to Israeli legislators. Netanyahu continued, “[D]espite our utmost effort not to... Read more
CNN reported on Sunday’s horrors in Rafah for a few excruciating hours, then veered quickly to a new, more comforting headline: “Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Sunday’s deadly Israeli airstrike on a Rafah camp had gone tragically wrong.” Other mainstream media performed a similar sleight-of-hand (if the news cycle ever slows down, I’ll show you a few examples). Alternative news outlets, instead of soothing the consciences of pro-Israel evangelicals, are still covering the actual incident, and the world’s outrage.... Read more
The rule of law, appropriately applied (that is, equally across the board) keeps us from chaos. But when some think they are above the law, the rest pay dearly. Gaza is a case in point. So you probably heard that on Monday, the International Criminal Court announced that it would be seeking arrest warrants for the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant. Prosecutor Karim Khan has reasonable grounds to believe that these two... Read more
We think we know the deal with Hamas and human shields – we think we know all there is to know about Hamas. Where did we get this information? Are we sure it is true? Because Hamas has been labeled a “terrorist organization,” it’s easy to believe that they are monsters, capable of doing all kinds of horrible things. We were told very early in the conflict that Hamas members had baked babies in ovens, cut open pregnant women, and... Read more
The US is shelling out a fortune to get humanitarian aid to Gaza and providing billions in military aid to Israel. And our leaders inform us that Israel and the US have “shared values.” I don’t know about you, but these are NOT my values: On Monday May 13 in the Palestinian West Bank, close to 100 Israeli settlers blocked a convoy of aid trucks that were headed for Gaza. They then dumped the contents of the trucks on the... Read more
Grace-Colored Glasses has experienced a revolution in the past few months. Maybe you haven’t even noticed, but Grace-Colored Glasses has been on hiatus. While I was away, I thought about you, faith community, every single day. I started writing exclusively about Gaza on October 7th, when Hamas fighters broke out of “prison” and attacked Israel. By October 8th, I had determined to write exclusively about Gaza until the war ended. Understandably, much of the world was horrified by the events... Read more
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