What is happening in both Gaza and Lebanon at the moment, is truly tragic. All those people being killed and there is no one who can stop Israel's carnage, not even Trump.
The government of Israel is definitely committing war crimes on an industrial scale.
I understand the wrongs committed by Hamas and Hezbollah, and they should be brought to justice for their crimes. But this does not give Israel carte blanche to indescribably kill innocent civilians by the thousands.
Unfortunately, so many American Evangelicals, with their dispensational view of Israel, condone what is happening, instead of being a prophetic voice calling out Israel for the killing that is going on.
To many Christians and churches are afraid to speak out for fear of being called antisemitic and Israel is capitalizing on that.
I don't know where you get your information from? Israel killing innocent people in Lebanon by the thousands? Please provide the evidence. According to the stats I've seen just under 4000 Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon have been killed in the past year or so. And still after two years of fighting this time we still see a very different attitude at either side: Hezbollah intentionally targeting civilians (it aims to kill ALL Jews anyway), and Israel only aiming at Hezbollah fighters and trying to avoid civilian casualties ...
As has been documented elsewhere the ratio between military and civilian casualties from Israeli fire in the Gaza war has been exceptionally benign given historical standards for urban warfare.
Before any discourse makes sense I'm interested in your position on some issues:
- do you support the existence of the State of Israel as a homeland for the Jews?
- if you do, what is your plan or what do you think would be sufficient to make Hamas/Hezbollah/Iran be willing to peacefully co-exist with Israel?
- what would have been your plan to protect Israel against more then 10000 missiles from Hezbollah fired at Israeli civilians? And to make sure that can't happen again?
Collateral damage in warfare where fighters hide and store/use weapons in/from civilian infrastructure (houses, hospitals, churches, etc.) (as has happened in Gaza and Lebanon) is unavoidable. Israel warns civilians to leave areas in advance when fighting is expected - individual apartments in Beirut are targeted with precision ammunition when possible. 'tap-on-the-roof' and SMS-based warnings to vacate a building when the whole building is taken down, Israel actively tries to get civilians out of harm's way.
I don't deny innocent lives get lost in this type of warfare - but I disagree with the thesis it could have been done in another way without failing in the goal of permanently removing the threats of Hamas and Hezbollah from next door.
Have you made a estimate of how many civilian deaths would have been caused in Israel if it didn't have the Iron Dome, David's Sling, Arrow, Iron Beam, THAAD, etc. ? Only then you can make a fair comparison.
The lesson Hamas, Hezbollah and Syria learn is: hostilities will result in a price to pay in terms of land as security buffer zone.
