{"id":505,"date":"2023-11-10T11:04:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T16:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ptnews.org\/wpupdater2\/frontpage\/?p=505"},"modified":"2023-11-11T15:19:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T20:19:59","slug":"standing-on-the-right-side-of-good-and-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ptnews.org\/wpupdater2\/frontpage\/2023\/11\/10\/standing-on-the-right-side-of-good-and-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Standing on the Right Side of Good and Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Life is full of choices. The Bible continually warns us to make good choices. That is because there are consequences for every choice we make. It is like sowing seeds. What we plant comes up (Galatians 6:7-9<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God has exhorted us, \u201cDepart from evil, and do good, and dwell forevermore\u201d <\/em>(Psalm 37:27<\/a>). Good stands on the side of God, life, truth, righteousness, and justice. Evil promotes Satan, death, lies, wickedness and injustice. To confuse good and evil is deadly (Isaiah 5:20<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we stand with Israel we are standing on the side with God, and that is always \u201cgood.\u201d Israel is not the aggressor in this present conflict. They are defending their people from a genocidal enemy. That what God expects them to do! Israel does not target civilians in Gaza. They have tried to avoid the death of civilians. Their attack is against Hamas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The same cannot be said for Hamas. They train and aim at Israeli civilians. They especially aim to harm and kill Israeli children. They proved that on October 7th<\/sup>. That is evil! Speaking about children, Jesus said, \u201cIt were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones\u201d <\/em>(Luke 17:2<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hamas does not care about the Palestinians. The Palestinians are suffering because of Hamas. If the world really cares about the Palestinian people, they would be cheering for Israel at this hour. Daniel Pipes, the president for the Middle East Forum, writes, \u201cHamas actively wants Gaza residents to be bombed, hungry, suffering, homeless, injured and killed. It bases troops and missiles in mosques, churches, schools, hospitals, and homes. An Emirati political figure, Dirar Belhoul al-Falasi, explains that \u2018Hamas fired a rocket from the hospital’s roof, so that Israel would bomb this hospital.\u2019 It calls on Gaza residents to serve as shields. It parks vehicles on the roads to block civilians from moving southward, out of harm’s way. It even shoots these fleeing civilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. government has long noted this pattern of behavior. In 2014, the diplomat Dennis Ross commented that the people of Gaza paid a \u2018staggering\u2019 price for Hamas’ aggression, but its leaders \u2018have never been concerned about that. For them, Palestinians’ pain and suffering are tools to exploit, not conditions to end.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Douglas Feith, a former high-ranking Pentagon official, correctly finds it \u2018unprecedented for a party to adopt a war strategy to maximize civilian deaths on its own side.\u2019 He dubs this \u2018not a human shield strategy [but] a human sacrifice strategy.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Hamas digs into its Islamist ideology to justify this practice. One official blithely explains that Palestinians \u2018sacrifice ourselves. We consider our dead to be martyrs. The thing any Palestinian desires the most is to be martyred for the sake of Allah, defending his land.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of a founding Hamas leader, puts it another way: \u2018I was born at the heart of Hamas leadership … and I know them very well. They don’t care for the Palestinian people. They do not regard human life. I saw their brutality firsthand\u2019\u201d (The Middle East Forum<\/em>, November 8, 2023<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Life is full of choices. The Bible continually warns us to make good choices. That is because there are consequences for every choice we make. It is like sowing seeds. What we plant comes up (Galatians 6:7-9). God has exhorted us, \u201cDepart from evil, and do good, and dwell forevermore\u201d (Psalm 37:27). Good stands on … <\/p>\n

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