Genocide Begins with the Silence of the World
News comes that the first Israeli child was killed in this seven-week conflict. Five hundred Palestinian children have been killed at the same time. 500! Why does this continue, God of All Justice? Where are you? Why do you sit idly by and pretend that this about being "chosen" and "terrorist?" Why are some deaths so precious and others so trivial? Transform the hard-hearted. Break open the heart of Prime Minister Netanyahu that he may hear the cries of children. Should he not know? Should he not mine the remembrance of his people to be different? Hagar is weeping for her children and she will not be silenced. What makes us all so callous to such suffering and death? Where do we begin? Amen.
Indeed where do we begin? Do we hide in our busyness or raise our voice to stop the insanity and realize we are all one? At a minimum, pray to your god for wisdom, peace and action.
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