If You Find Yourself Lost in Regards to the Current Israel War, Read This
Posted by Tyson Wynn | Print This PostJul 28
It’s not unusual to encounter folks that are not in the know as far as the Hezbollah-Israel War goes. It’s around the world; it doesn’t really concern us; these people always fight. It can all end up as a disconcerting blur that leads us to concentrate on things at home and just leave things to the politicians and talking heads on TV.
If that is where you are, let me suggest you read this piece by Charles Krauthammer. He is an excellent analyst, and he clearly presents the real differences in the two sides of the current conflict. It won’t take five minutes to read, and it will be truly enlightening.
Here’s a relevant excerpt:
When the United States was attacked at Pearl Harbor, it did not respond with a parallel “proportionate” attack on a Japanese naval base. It launched a four-year campaign that killed millions of Japanese, reduced Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki to a cinder, and turned the Japanese home islands to rubble and ruin. Disproportionate? No. When one is wantonly attacked by an aggressor, one has every right — legal and moral — to carry the fight until the aggressor is disarmed and so disabled that it cannot threaten one’s security again. That’s what it took with Japan.
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The perversity of today’s international outcry lies in the fact that there is indeed a disproportion in this war, a radical moral asymmetry between Hezbollah and Israel: Hezbollah is deliberately trying to create civilian casualties on both sides while Israel is deliberately trying to minimize civilian casualties, also on both sides.
3 comments
Comment by Twatch on July 28, 2006 at 8:28 AM
The concept of proportionality is born out of the Left’s
principle of Tolerance. Meliane Phillips, author of
Lononistan, makes the case for why the Left’s removal of
Good and Evil (Judgment) as a basis for decision
making produces paralysis and therefore civil strife which
leads to societal disintegration.
In the Left’s construct of tolerance no one is wrong,
just misunderstood by a biased view point, therefore,
to react to destroy your enemy is an unhelpful biased act
to be counseled. This is Satan’s deception to deny God’s
Word in the Earth in order to bring about Man’s eternal
death.
Comment by Tyson on July 28, 2006 at 2:45 PM
As usual, you are spot on in your analysis, and too smart for me.
In regards to tolerance, I love what John Piper worte in Brothers, We are Not Professionals:
“Beware of replacing real truth-based tolerance with spurious professional tolerance. Once upon a time tolerance was the power that kept lovers of competing faiths from killing each other. It was the principle that put freedom above forced conversion. It was rooted in the truth that coerced conviction is no conviction. That is true tolerance. But now the new professional tolerance denies that there are any competing faiths; they only complement each other. It denounces not only the effort to force conversions but also the idea that any conversion may be necessary. It holds the conviction that no religious conviction should claim superiority over another. In this way, peaceful parity among professionals can remain intact, and none need be persecuted for the stumbling block of the cross (Gal. 5:11).
From Brothers, We Are Not Professionals, John Piper, p. xi
Comment by Bryan on July 28, 2006 at 3:28 PM
“But now the new professional tolerance denies that there are any competing faiths; they only complement each other. It denounces not only the effort to force conversions but also the idea that any conversion may be necessary. It holds the conviction that no religious conviction should claim superiority over another. In this way, peaceful parity among professionals can remain intact, and none need be persecuted for the stumbling block of the cross (Gal. 5:11).”
And enter the apostate end-time church, right on cue.