Death has climbed in through our windows and has entered our fortresses; it has removed the children from the streets and the young men from the public squares.
~ Jeremiah 9:21When I was growing up, my father would always react to cold-blooded murders reported in the news with one sentence: "Take him out and shoot him."
In my idealistic youth, this was a horrifying statement to hear. I would protest that the murderer deserves a trial, due process of the law--all the niceties of mid-20th century American society. Dad was impervious. He would shake his head and reiterate, "Shoot him."
I'm much older and wiser now and, having witnessed so much deliberate evil, I often wish I could tell my father he was right. But in the case of the Hamas atrocities against Israel, I think a quick execution by gunfire is far too kind to the monsters that perpetrated such sadistic slaughter against innocent civilians, including infants.
A fearsome war is coming as Israel fights to survive as a nation and to protect its people. The war will be just, and it must be won.
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| Psalm 102:2 |
