Christian Democrats in the United States
Global Issues - Israel and Palestine Israel does exist, and we decry all attempts to terrorize its civilians with useless and counter-productive attacks. However, a peaceful world of international civil law can never exist while some people are denied citizenship in any country. Everyone has a right to form governments so they do not live in a brutal state of nature, and so do Palestinians. Israel must accept the existence of a Palestinian state, and must work to provide a level of civil equality for them. President Clinton accomplished marvelous results in the Israeli-Palestine conflict before the end of his term, and the first thing G.W. Bush did was to withdraw Clinton's special envoy and adopt a hard-line stance. This action sabotaged efforts for peace and destabilized the region, led to further conflict and let the violent Hamas group step into the power vacuum. We must return to the diplomatic table in Clinton's spirit of reconciliation, to build a Middle-East world in which Israelis and Palestinians are able to peacefully co-exist. Subscribe to Posts [Atom]
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
12:25 AM
About the same time, Hamas terrorists fire rockets into Israel and Israel terrorizes the Palestinians of Gaza, back and forth, always creating more grief, more anger, more revenge. Hundreds dead, thousands more in danger.
Not to mention the Taliban in Afghanistan who blew up a crowd of schoolchildren the other day.
The idea of evil as a spiritual force is all too often used by one side of a conflict to describe the other side. But the conflict itself is the evil.
Truly we live in a time when evil is awakening, becoming a force in and of itself, when chaos and lawlessness reign not because the state lacks the power of violence, but because our hearts are hardened to the radiant love of God, because in our anger and despair, we lose sight of the beautiful gift of life which has been given to us by the creator. The light must awaken as well - to see through the darkness, to know what seems unknowable, to go into the darkness before evil and shine.
Are these metaphors, or reflections of a deeper reality? I don't have any answers. I don't understand. Jesus, are you reading this? We need you back, brother.
santa shooter, gaza and the awakening
In the U.S. we've just had our happy illusions of Christmas shattered by a psycho who dressed up as Santa Claus and killed his ex-wife and nine members of her family, orphaning 13 children, including one little girl he shot in the face when he opened the door. Why? No one will ever make sense of this.About the same time, Hamas terrorists fire rockets into Israel and Israel terrorizes the Palestinians of Gaza, back and forth, always creating more grief, more anger, more revenge. Hundreds dead, thousands more in danger.
Not to mention the Taliban in Afghanistan who blew up a crowd of schoolchildren the other day.
The idea of evil as a spiritual force is all too often used by one side of a conflict to describe the other side. But the conflict itself is the evil.
Truly we live in a time when evil is awakening, becoming a force in and of itself, when chaos and lawlessness reign not because the state lacks the power of violence, but because our hearts are hardened to the radiant love of God, because in our anger and despair, we lose sight of the beautiful gift of life which has been given to us by the creator. The light must awaken as well - to see through the darkness, to know what seems unknowable, to go into the darkness before evil and shine.
Are these metaphors, or reflections of a deeper reality? I don't have any answers. I don't understand. Jesus, are you reading this? We need you back, brother.
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