{"id":54230,"date":"2014-07-29T00:09:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T07:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=54230"},"modified":"2014-12-28T23:19:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T06:19:39","slug":"pretty-balanced-account-of-israelpalestinian-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2014\/07\/pretty-balanced-account-of-israelpalestinian-conflict.html","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Balanced Account of Israel\/Palestinian Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u2026<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2014\/7\/17\/5902177\/9-questions-about-the-israel-palestine-conflict-you-were-too\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">though way behind on the body count<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t look to the leadership of either the Israelis or Palestinians for any hope at all. \u00a0I look to God and, God willing, the small and unheard of people who are, on both sides, determined to live in peace. \u00a0People like Pelosi, who pretend that Hamas is (I am not making this up) a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/m.cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/susan-jones\/pelosi-qataris-have-told-me-hamas-humanitarian-organization?utm_source=Facebook&amp;utm_medium=Marketing&amp;utm_term=Facebook&amp;utm_content=Facebook&amp;utm_campaign=N-Pelosi-Hamas\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">humanitarian organization<\/a>\u201d (presumably firing, not\u00a0rockets, but rapid delivery pyrotechnic fun kits for kidz!)\u00a0are not treating with reality. Similarly,\u00a0people who seriously pretend that Israel\u2019s treatment of Palestinians has been something other than barbaric for the past generation and a half\u00a0are likewise\u00a0not treating with reality. \u00a0Not without reason does \u201cself-hating Jew\u201d Jon Stewart accurately describe our state and media support for anything and everything Israel does to the inhabitants of the world\u2019s largest open air prison as a \u201cMoebius strip\u201d:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/x21jf2m\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x21jf2m_jon-stewart-on-the-gaza-israeli-conflict_fun\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jon Stewart on the Gaza-Israeli conflict<\/a> <i>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/STEWAAART\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">STEWAAART<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is that both Palestinian and Israeli leaders\u2013and the zealous American supporters of Israel and zealous European supporters of Hamas\u2013all favor murdering children for the greater good.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, particularl in the case of this God-damned (and I mean that with technical precision) war, I think more and more of Pope Benedict\u2019s words: \u201cWe must begin asking ourselves whether as things stand, with new weapons that cause destruction that goes well beyond the groups involved in the fight, it is still licit to allow that a \u2018just war\u2019 might exist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t have answers about what Israel is supposed to do about Hamas. But I do think I have an answer for me about what I should do with the leadership of both warring peoples. I have no business backing either side with my money, since both are, at the end of the day, powers that use my money to <a href=\"www.cnn.com\/2014\/06\/30\/world\/meast\/israel-kidnap-victims\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">murder<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/07\/16\/us-palestinians-israel-idUSKBN0FI04420140716\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">children<\/a>. I can\u2019t fix it. But I don\u2019t see why I need to be party to either of the powers in this power struggle. I\u2019d rather put my support toward the <a href=\"http:\/\/jfjfp.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">small <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onevoicemovement.org\/mission\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">quiet <\/a>people who are working below the radar healing and building and not toward the butchers on either side who are killing and destroying.<\/p>\n<p>Update: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2014\/07\/lebanese-tv-anchor-adapts-n-to-show-solidarity-with-iraqi-christians\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Here\u2019s another small light<\/a>\u00a0as a Lebanese newscaster takes a stand against the butchers.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026though way behind on the body count. I don\u2019t look to the leadership of either the Israelis or Palestinians for any hope at all. \u00a0I look to God and, God willing, the small and unheard of people who are, on both sides, determined to live in peace. \u00a0People like Pelosi, who pretend that Hamas is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-54230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-thinking-out-loud"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pretty Balanced Account of Israel\/Palestinian Conflict<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"...though way behind on the body count. 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