New War, All Over Again
January 7, 2009 – 3:45 pmRobin Dembroff, writer for The Evangelical Outpost, summarizes the recent conflict between Israel and Hamas and ends with two questions:
Confronted with a garden full of normal and poisonous plants that are identical in appearance, both America and Israel have, for lack of a visible better option, been forced to use conventional warfare in unconventional wars. Civilian causalities are part of the result: to Hamas, the primary means of war, and to civilized nations, a horrible, tragic part of war, which seems unavoidable in this conflict.
Is there another way?–I throw the question out to you.
If warfare must be used, (which I believe it must), is there an honorable and unconventional type of warfare that Israel can use against an insidious but also unconventional enemy? [excerpt]
Entire article.
Other opinions of the conflict:
- View of crisis void of biblical perspective - Neal Cruz of Philippine Daily Inquirer: Abraham and Moses to blame for Gaza war.
- Conservative political blogger Hugh Hewitt interviewed Michael Oren, professor of the Shalom Center in Jerusalem and the Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service, on the ongoing conflict. He is also a reservist in the IDF (Israel Defense Force) and was called to active duty. He completed the interview with Hewitt from his position near the Israeli-Gaza border. You can download the transcript and podcast of the interview.
- Jeffery Goldberg, a National Correspondent of The Atlantic, who previously served as Middle East correspondent and Washington correspondent for the New Yorker among other roles, writes about “the paralysis that comes from thinking there’s no way out” [of the Gaza conflict]. Note the despair that comes from a non-biblical view of the Middle East conflict. HT: HH
