Well before anything else I must confess that I'm still not quite sure how to deal with the murder in Itamar on shabbat. The pictures were shocking, the event was shocking and I just don't get how you can kill a baby. When Avraham sends away Yishmael and Hagar they get stranded in the desert with no water. Hashem send s an angel to bring them to water or show them water ( I forget the details but thats the gist of it). The question is asked why did hashem save Yishmael when he knew what Yishmael and his descendants were going to do to the Jewish people. The answer is as follows; at that stage in his life Yishmael had not done wrong and nor had his descendants, they still had time to change. That hashem knew what choices they were going to make did not mean they had to make them. Hashem did not allow an innocent person to die DESPITE his divine knowledge that in the future this person would cause harm.
Whatever your views on the situation in Israel, whether you support the Israelis, the Palestinians or both to some degree can we at least agree on one thing: a three month old baby has done no wrong, the other children had done no wrong.
There is no justification in killing children. A society can not be founded on the murders of others. Death occurs when people are trying to fight for what they believe in. In a war soldiers die. To walk in to someones house whilst they sleep and stab them in their beds is not a war, it is not a way to fight for what you believe is right.
To go out and celebrate after killing people is not humane or moral or just.
I would like to live in peace and not have to send my children to learn hoe to shot guns and turn them in to soldiers but I don't know how to make peace with people who celebrate after they murder children sleeping in their beds
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