This, all this is missing something. I've seen recently, from reading more and more into the bible, that personal faith is about me, my actions, my intents, my thought processes, not about verdicts on others. It's not about placing a verdict on people thousands of miles away whom I've never met. It isn't. And both ways, Israeli and Palestine, we are separate geographically. We are a different culture, we are so many things that serve to make our opinions on Israel and Palestine diffusive.
I sat earlier today, pondering all of it. Being here, arguing with people on this forum about Israel and Palestine, and I realized something; our opinions don't help. They don't. We're just a group of people bothering one another. Those families, both Israeli and Palestinian, caught in gunfire, bombings, the result of political manoeuvring or aggression or God knows what; do they care about our petty opinions? Do they wake up in the morning and think 'I wonder what those people on Christian Chat are saying?'
And Sirk, you said 'there's nothing we can do about it', and if that's true, and if that's the Christian position, and there's nothing we can do about it and there's no point trying, then what's the point of being here arguing amongst each other, adding conflict to conflict? If there is nothing we can do about Israel and Palestine in your eyes then why even try?
And so would a better use of time not be to do something else? Something do-able?
Likewise, for those who think something can be done, that we can incite in those who believe this is justified a willingness to end this divisiveness and refrain from factionalism, there's also no point, since none are willing to bend their entire theological foundations for the sake of universal humanitarianism. So why do that either? Why not do something do-able?
And for me, I think I'm going to read some more things Jesus said in his day. My heart goes out to all the families, men, women and children who're suffering because of this.