Friday, June 10, 2005
If I believed like this, I'd boycott, too:
Security from suicide bombers is ostensibly the reason behind the Wall. As we wrestle with a God of justice and compassion in prayerful contemplation, we acknowledge that security for Israel is extremely important. We abhor suicide bombings as acts of desperation that accomplish nothing more than to generate fear, anger, and further alienation. But is the Wall the answer? If God, for the sake of a few righteous ones, had been willing to spare Sodom and Gomorrah, should Israel (whose name means “wrestling with God”), for the sake of some evil acts, destroy an entire people?...
I wouldn't exactly call that a sympathetic view of people trying to protect themselves from genocidal terrorists. A people who 'wrestle with God' can expect no less I suppose.
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Check out Caroline Glicks article at the J post. http:www.jpost.com/servlet/Satillite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1118110990871&p=1006953079897
Interesting parallel.
"destroy an entire people?"
Um, how does the wall "destroy an entire people"?
A bit of hyperbole here....
Eileen, that link comes up empty for me. Is that "Spare the Children"?
Yehudit, they're goofy.
Sorry about the bad link. The article is called "In our eternal, undivided capital".