Go to the
Stop Hamas Now website and sign the petition. This is a letter which will be sent to everybody in leadership. Here's the text:
An open letter to America's leaders
Dear President Obama, Secretary Kerry, members of Congress, Governors, state and local officials, and our nation's business and religious leaders:
Israel has been under attack. Under attack by an enemy – Hamas - that values death over life. That uses women and children to shield its weapons and bombs. That has as its goal the destruction of Israel. And the destruction of Western Civilization.
The very same Hamas that has as a part of its covenant the destruction of Israel. The very same Hamas that cheers when Americans die and condemns America when she takes on evil around the globe.
And the very same radical ideology that led to the death of nearly 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001. And that's behind the slaughter of Christians throughout the Middle East.
We mourn the loss of innocent life in Gaza. But those deaths are not collateral damage; they are a part of a deliberate plan by Hamas to cause the death of its own women and children, and then use those deaths to garner international sympathy.
It is a grotesque strategy. One the media should expose. And the world should condemn. One that must not happen again.
Leaders of America, please send a unified message to Israel and the world that America stands with our ally in this battle for her survival. That Hamas must be disarmed and stay disarmed. And that we stand against Hamas's depraved use of innocent civilians as human shields, and its ideology of hate and intolerance.
This fight in Gaza, in the end, is a fight between good and evil.
It isn't just Israel's fight. It's America's, too. And the civilized world's.
In the end, pretty much every conflict in this world is a fight between good and evil. With none of those conflicts can a political map be used as a Venn diagram to show where the evil is and where the good is.
ReplyDeleteOK, Tom. If we're being theologically precise here we can state the present crisis thusly. There is one group who wants peace and another who wants to use violence -- even violence against civilians on their own side -- to achieve its ends. You have to decide who you want to have running things "politically". It's pretty clear to most people that the first group can be called "good" and the second group be called "evil" for political intents and purposes.
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