In the headline for my column today, I mentioned two wars and what could turn into something nasty–directly involving the United States.
Up until a few days ago, President Biden looked like he was simply trying to assist allies with funds, weapons, and other supplies, referring to the President standing with Ukraine and the President standing with Israel. Then along came this attack a couple of days ago, at the hands of the Iranians, against American Soldiers stationed in the Middle East.
Despite agreeing to a ceasefire with Hamas just a few months ago, when Hamas struck Israel in October, it was on, and it’s been on since then, sad to say.
The conflict between Israel and some of the people of Palestinian heritage has been fighting against each other since Biblical times. Let’s just go there. This isn’t new. It’s old, and it’s tired, and if I had my way, along with a lot of other women, mothers, grandmothers, aunties, and Godmothers, if we had our way, I bet there would be no wars at all, anywhere, around the world. If women were in charge everywhere.
But men. Oh, men will be boys, and some of them, unfortunately, love war. They thrive on war. They want land, power, and the ability to Lord over what they see as weaker people. It’s a crying shame.
This column that I’m sharing now has been on a slow boil in my gut and my heart since the world was alerted that fighting had started again between Israel and Hamas. When you look at the news and watch a Jewish woman in her 80s being forced onto the back of a motorcycle of a Hamas soldier and kidnapped, when you see the news stories about Israeli babies and toddlers who were beheaded, allegedly at the hands of Hamas and their mothers raped and then murdered, or kidnapped, it doesn’t matter to me that I don’t know these people. It doesn’t matter to me that they are Jewish.
On the other side, I equally believe that horrific atrocities have been done against some Palestinians over the years, unspeakable things, at the hands of Israeli Soldiers. I don’t believe that anyone is blameless in this mess. There is such a level of hatred between Israel and Hamas that once generals, lieutenants, and captains are out in the field with their soldiers– they lose their sense of humanity. How sad and how scary.
The latest round of fighting between Israel and Palestine began after the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a deadly attack on October 7, 2023, that killed more than 1,400 people at an outdoor concert venue. One minute, people were partying and having fun. The next minute, many lost their lives. From that same group of concertgoers, approximately 200 people were kidnapped and taken into Gaza. Of that group, there are some Americans.
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