26/10/2023
Thinking about what happened in Israel with Hamas. It’s complex.
To start with, we know certain powers in Israel funded Hamas in its beginning, to give the expansionists in Israel an excuse to stop the Palestinians having their own state.
Fast forward to Donald Trump’s “Abraham Accords,” bringing peace to the region: including to Israel, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. This peace was going well. The Palestinians were at the point where they were about to receive what they wanted, after so many years of denial. The Palestinians would not want to jeopardise this peace when it was helping them and all others in the region.
So why would Hamas attack just at this time, and throw away all the good the Palestinians were getting?
And why did Israel (with the best spyware in the world) not know that such a long-term, planned attack was going to happen?
Please, don’t go for the “Greater Israel” doctrine, claiming Israel must own all the land through to Iraq. This is not what Jesus and the prophets taught. It is the teaching of religious zealotry, which brings death and destruction. Israel must live in peace and in justice with her neighbours, and likewise Israel's neighbours with them.
This is the gospel of Christ. Religious zealotry, whether Christian, Islamic, or Jewish, is sponsored and manipulated by those who seek to profit financially and by colonialism. Religious zealotry is not the nature of true faith.