For God's Sake, Israel?
Pain on the level of watching your child starve While your whole community starves around you All amid the rubble and destruction of your once homes... Seems an unGodly thing to cause. Perhaps not, in the minds of some fundamentalists in Israel. "...devote to destruction all that they have." " A few well‑known Old Testament passages in which God commands total destruction of Israel's (and His) enemies : Deuteronomy 20:16‑17 “But in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes, but you shall devote them to complete destruction—the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded.” 1 Samuel 15:3 “Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.” Deuteronomy 7:2 “And when the...