For Those Who Consider Themselves on the Side of the Angels. Are You Really?

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There are few human controversies: wars, feuds, marital strife, personal disagreements between friends, etc. where one side represents the angels and the other side the devils. Of course, sometimes individuals and groups deliberately align themselves with evil, a more serious situation. Terrorist and satanic groups (including freemasons), drug and sex trafficking cartels, etc. enthusiastically embrace evil. But even in those cases, the members often are a mixed bag. Only God knows the percentages of good and evil in a person's heart. Is there anyone on earth who has never done a good deed? I think that would be a hard case to prove in court. Jesus Himself made that clear through the words of St. Matthew:

If you then being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children: how much more will your Father who is in heaven, give good things to them that ask him?

I often think about this because of the penchant for people to hold fast to their opinion (myself included) that so and so is 100% wrong and I am 100% right. Let's be honest. All of us tend more toward pride than meekness. Trump derangement syndrome is just one example? Think of the Democrat politicians, Jeffries and Booker, who recently quoted Ulysses Grant who committed what we would describe today as war crimes against both the South and the Indians: "There are but two parties now, traitors and patriots," he wrote to a friend. 

That attitude was arrogant and ridiculous then, and remains ridiculous today as well!

And so I come to an issue that is likely to be like poking a stick in a hornets' nest, the Gaza mess. It is unfathomable to me that people can turn Israel into an angel of light and the Palestinians (I'm not talking about Hamas here!) into demons deserving to be wiped off the face of the earth. There are over two million residents in Gaza with only a small number of christians. The Christians in Gaza who have seen their churches targeted and  destroyed.  and who are suffering starvation because of Israel's food blockade appear to be just collateral damage to Israel's cheerleaders. This is not just an attack on Hamas. It is a war of extermination with atrocities committed by both sides. But the people caught in the middle are non-combatants.

On Palm Sunday Israel destroyed a northern hospital in their air strikes. Patrick Delaney reported this at LifeSiteNews. 

The attack on the hospital, which has been operating for 143 years, comes in the seventh week of an Israeli blockade of all humanitarian aid – including food, water, energy and medical supplies – to the enclave where approximately two million Palestinians (one million children) remain confined.

The Israelis claimed there was a Hamas control center located at the hospital which is run by the Anglican Diocese of Jerusalem. Was there? Even if there was proof, was the attack on a hospital justified? Is a blockade on humanitarian aid justified? 

AP reported on the attack and also described a previous attack on another hospital in south Gaza last month. Meanwhile, deliberate starvation of the people living in the Gaza strip continues with the assistance of the Trump administration and the silence of the U.S. bishops. There is nothing Catholic or pro-life about deliberately starving millions of non-combatants because you consider them guilty of crimethink. After all, those of us who are considered deplorables could easily become targets as did so many innocent people during the Antifa/Black Lives Matter riots in our cities.  

In a March 28th letter to President Trump, Bishop Joseph Strickland wrote:

In Gaza, the indiscriminate killing of civilians – including women and children – has reached an intolerable scale. The people of Palestine, many of whom have no affiliation with terrorist organizations, suffer immensely. War cannot be waged without regard for the innocent. The same applies to Yemen, where U.S. military actions against the Houthis risk inflaming an already volatile situation. Each missile launched, each bomb dropped, threatens to push the region further into chaos, with untold humanitarian consequences.

I urge you to read Bishop Strickland's letter and pray for all the people of the world caught in the middle of warring factions, especially the children.  

Because of the absolute disrespect of commenters on previous posts related to this issue, I will not allow comments on this post. And any comments placed on other unrelated posts will go in the trash folder. Evil is evil. The Palestinians are not devils and the Israelis are not angels and vice versa. Certain tactics in war are absolutely evil and we are seeing plenty of them in the Middle East. The October 7th attack on Israel by Hamas and their ongoing acts of terrorism are absolutely evil. Israel's war of extermination on all the residents of Gaza is absolutely evil. Calling yourself pro-life while you applaud deliberate murder of non-combatants in unjust wars whether you're talking about Russia/Ukraine, Palestine/Israel, or any other war is hypocritical in the extreme.

You don't agree? Defend your position by starting your own blog and making your case. Nobody makes you come to mine. If you don't like what I write, you don't have to read it.