Have you not heard the term used today to eradicate terrorism?
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The United Nations Capability To Counter Terrorism International Law Essay | Law Teacher
The question the world is having to grapple with is how do we eradicate terrorism to promote peace?
In the essay above the agreement between world leaders is....
"Certainly terrorism is widely recognized across the world as the worst threat to mankind, which has compelled the nations to spend millions of dollars beefing up their security."
In the Bible terrorism was instituted by certain cultures and tribes who became a threat to mankind, by conscripting and fostering their generations to become natural born killers/assassins.
So what the God of the Holy Bible did is to use the nation of Israel, amongst other nations, as his rod of armour to destroy this threat. Even if it required destroying them from their young to their old, in order to eradicate this threat.
If we look in the Middle East, where generations upon generations of Islamic fundamentalists have been brought up to kill and to do all manner of evil, by tying explosives around themselves and blowing themselves up or beheadings their enemies, then we see that this type of culture amongst these tribes becomes a threat to mankind, in the same way those particular tribes in the Old Testament became a threat, by which rational thinking could not be used to promote peace, unless the threat is eradicated.
The world today has been doing just that, when America went into Afghanistan and eradicated the fundemetalist elements of the Taliban. The Americans wiped them out in the same way the Israelites were commanded to wipe them out.
God uses nations against nations and
if you wanted to draw a distinction between events in the Old Testament compared to our day and age in order to find inconsistencies, then you will not find any. In fact what you will find is that the last 100 years have been the bloodiest and the deaths attributed in the last 120 years is more than the battles throughout human history.
So we ought not do selective biased judgement to create a false narrative that somehow the Old Testament wars against terrorism were genocidal. If a person wrongfully claimed that God promoted genocide, this false claim is clearly proven to be contextually unfounded, inconsistent and hypocritically made by the very people who promote peace through the eradication of terrorism, after all look how many countries this war on terrorism has led to!