Israel and Palestine: Would the G-d of Abraham condone today the killing, hurting or placing in harm's way innocent children, even your enemy's?
Greg Krasovsky
October 17, 2023
As I see pictures of injured or dead Israeli and Palestinian children -- all innocent victims who we all had a responsibility to protect -- my heart aches equally.
A child does not chose his parents, his ethnicity, race, land / country where his was born or his family's religion, political convictions and moral compass.
Even a child born to a criminal, a terrorist, a radical extremist, racist, xenophobe, antisemite, a heartless occupant or exploitative colonizer, deserves love, peace, protection and an innocent happy childhood without war and terrorist acts that bring death, misery, hunger, thirst, homelessness and lack of medical care, education and safe places to play or pray.
As such, crimes against children (including terrorism, war crimes and crimes against humanity)
- are never justified,
- should not be tolerated,
- must be condemned,
- their perpetrators must be brought to justice and punished to the fullest extent permitted by law and
- every effort has to be made to prevent them.
This is directly applicable
- to Israel's current efforts to bring Hamas terrorists and war criminals to justice (for the atrocities that they committed on and after 10/7/23) and
- to Palestinian militants (Hamas, Hezbollah, Fatah & etc.) for their indiscriminate missile strikes against Israeli civilians.
If you can't or won't feel any compassion or responsibility for even your enemy's children, then you've lost your moral compass and right to seek G-d's blessing & protection.
What do you think?
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P.S. Please feel free to read my Facebook post on Golda Meir's quote below or at
https://www.facebook.com/greg.krasovsky/posts/pfbid02TWG6UBuPLEEANiibnHZBkiuSjnrZRLkiWyEZe3px88UHnc8iLTX8dranv1Sx5HQtl
and my prior URA Observer post on Hannah Arendt's quotes at
https://ura-observer.blogspot.com/2023/10/israel-palestine-forgiveness-compassion.html
or
David Yakubov on Golda Meir's quote: "Unfortunately that's where we are standing today...once again..."
See https://www.facebook.com/david.yakubov.900/posts/pfbid029uh6j2GPspptyKvFHbTuqdKj46gVn3KqhqZij8aZZtG2QtmqUMsmrmJbR3sMMHqml
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Here's my response to David:
"David, so what's better (from a moral-theological point of view) for the mind, body and soul:
- to die as an innocent victim of terrorism, war crimes, crimes against humanity (genocide, ethnic cleansing)
OR
- to live as a perpetrator of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including against unarmed civilian non-combatants, such as the elderly, women and innocent (by definition!) children, even if the perpetration of such crimes was done in revenge against prior terrorist acts and similar crimes?
On 10/7/23 many Hamas militants (not all, per testimony of survivors) committed horrific and unjustifiable terrorist acts, war crimes and crimes against humanity on Israeli soil.
These terrorists and war criminals, as well as their co-conspirators & sponsors (providing material support) deserve to be neutralized, killed (if offering lethal resistance), or captured, tried in a court of law ans sentenced to the highest measure of punishment (the death penalty if available and applicable).
I support Israel 101% in their efforts to bring these Hamas terrorists & war criminals to justice or neutralize them, as long as such anti-terrorist operations do not themselves result in war crimes & crimes against humanity either intentionally or recklessly.
But conducting such an anti-terrorist operation in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Golan Heights, Lebanon, Syria or even Iran does NOT give Israeli forces the right & authority to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity against civilian non-combatants (even if they are family members/relatives of known or suspected terrorists).
If a terrorist hides in or under a building with civilian non-combatants (even if they are his family & relatives) and their presence there is known, this does not give Israel the right or authority to drop a bomb on that building, strike it with a missile or an artillery shell, knowing that such a strike is likely to cause the injury and death of non-combatants.
BTW, calling non-combatants, especially the elderly, women and children unavoidable "collateral damage" or laying the responsibility for their death & injury on the terrorist who chose to hide among or near them does not absolve the anti-terrorist forces of guilt in committing a war crime / crime against humanity through what amounts to excessive use of force -- even if such excessive use of force is justified by the desire to prevent / reduce casualties among the anti-terrorist forces.
What do you think?
P.S. Please feel free to read my post titled
"Israel, Palestine, Forgiveness, Compassion, Peace, Freedom, Democracy, Politicians, Totalitarianism, Propaganda and Evil: What would Hannah Arendt say?"
in The Ukrainian-Russian-American Observer at https://ura-observer.blogspot.com/2023/10/israel-palestine-forgiveness-compassion.html
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#Istandwithisrael - With the good & innocent people of Israel (Jews, Druze, Palestinians and everyone else) in their attempts to live in peace, harmony, freedom, and with equal rights, justice & rule of law for all.
#Israelunderattack - We have a duty to help Israel defend itself (as a country and all of its citizens & residents regardless of religion, ethnicity and race) from wars of aggression, terrorism, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
We also have a duty to oppose and fight in Israel and Palestine (as it not a independent state, but a territory currently controlled / contained / occupied by Israel) any and all forms & expressions of extremism, radicalism, fundamentalism, xenophobia, racism and accompanying discrimination, persecution and all other related human rights violations, crimes against humanity, war crimes and terrorist acts.
#prayforisrael - I pray that peace, justice, freedom, true democracy and prosperity come to Israel (all of it's inhabitants regardless of religion, ethnicity or race) with G-d's blessings!
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