[Traveler]

Originally Posted by Fiannan

RonRosenbaum.com Some Differences Between Hamas and the Nazi Party

It is ironic that much of the socialistic media in Europe presents Hamas as a group merely fighting for liberation and against some sort of extremism of Israel yet rarely looks into what the organization stands for -- or the fact that Hamas purposly locates its weapons in civilian areas so that when Hamas murders innocent Israeli citizens ,and then is forced to target those missiles, innocent Palestinians will be killed.

A big difference between Hamas and Israel is that Hamas purposely targets men, weoman and children who are Jewish while Israel does its best to avoid killing civilians.

From various posts I am not sure that we understand war. There is no such thing as a nice war nor is there a “good” ending to war. To bring an early end to WWII the “good” guys (us) selected two German civilian cities to fire bomb. This was to let the Germans know that we meant business. Dresden was one of those cities. The Germans were not hiding behind civilian targets. Over a hundred thousand civilians died in the relentless attack. Fires were so hot from the bombing that brick buildings melted. Dresden is still rebuilding.

The most deadly weapon of war in the history of mankind was used against civilian targets in Japan to force a quick surrender. I can only think of one thing worse than engaging in war and that is losing a war. The only reason to engage in war is when not engaging in war is worse. The sad truth of war is that it engages civilians.

Throughout the history of mankind there has been an endless supply of leaders willing to endanger their wives and children of themselves and their countrymen for selfish reasons. Many more endanger civilians for what is believed to be a “better life”. I know of one civilization that ended all war and for generations lived in peace. For generations they lived without weapons of war or even vocabulary to reference war. They prospered until they were discovered by Traditional Christians that endeavored to convert them to Christ. When not one among them converted the Traditional Christians that had prospered in hundreds of years of war easily overcame them in a genocide that forever ended every trace of their peace loving DNA.

Why do I bring up these points – we all have a bias. We seem to hold some to a different standard than others. Someday we will meet G-d who lives by a much higher standard and it is my understanding that unless we forgo our standards for the greatest good, we will not live with him.

The Traveler