Where are the Christians???
I don't always agree with Pat Buchanan, but he has written a commentary on the Israeli/Lebanese/Palestinian situation which is stunning in it's clarity, forthrightness and morality. In short, I completely and wholeheartedly agree with what he has said. Well... with the exception of one paragraph which would require a caveat before I could completely agree with it. But, it's a side issue not relevant to the core argument he puts forward.
Where are the Christians?
Let it be said: Israel has a right to defend herself, a right to counter-attack against Hezbollah and Hamas, a right to clean out bases from which Katyusha or Qassam rockets are being fired and a right to occupy land from which attacks are mounted on her people.
But what Israel is doing is imposing deliberate suffering on civilians, collective punishment on innocent people, to force them to do something they are powerless to do: disarm the gunmen among them. Such a policy violates international law and comports neither with our values nor our interests. It is un-American and un-Christian.
2 Comments:
Kevin:
Yes, Buchanan has a point (despite the fact that some - given his past rhetoric - will accuse him of being anti-Semitic).
But where are the Christians? If we're referring to the neoCon religious right, perhaps they are lost in a pseudo-apocalyptic Revelations-inspired vision. Many evangelicals ascribe to the belief that everything happening in the Middle East is part of God's divine plan and their only role in it is to cheer on Israel, since they represent "God's people".
This is a huge historical shift in the post WWII era, but you can thank Hal Lindsay, Tim LaHaye and a 1000 fundamentalist preachers from coast to coast for this complacency.
Unfortunately, most American Christians don't want to be informed about their world, much less be engaged in it!
But thanks for leading us to the article, even if it's more than a little disturbing...
Because through the years I found Christians care more about causes than people.
Plus, what I understand about this cache of rockets, this way of going about it is not particularly useful in getting rid of them, unless they bomb every garage in Lebanon.
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