Posted on 07/31/2014 7:31:57 AM PDT by Aspenhuskerette
Asked by a convert to distill the Torah’s essence, Rabbi Hillel — Judaism’s great sage — taught, “What is hateful unto you, do not do unto your neighbor.”
Like the Golden Rule that roots most ethical traditions, Hillel’s first-century precept was aimed at inspiring a better society, one that brought order, dignity and peace to an otherwise cruel and warring world.
That too much of the world still inhabits a darker moral universe — refusing to Think Again about its preference for violence, hate and death — is perhaps humanity’s greatest challenge.
As Nazi-era refugee Albert Einstein understood, defending our collective values is the humane response. “The world is a dangerous place to live in,” he said, “not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”
Today, the world’s spotlight is on Israel, which is trying to do something about the evil emanating from the Gaza Strip, the territory controlled by Hamas, a murderous terrorist organization.
As the only democracy in a swamp of Middle East extremism — and the world’s only Jewish state — Israel confronts a Nazi-like neighbor whose slogan is “We love death more than Jews love life” and which pumps hate into its society’s bloodstream. Besides killing Jews, Hamas aims to bait Israel into self-defense actions it abhors, causing Palestinian deaths that elicit international scorn.
Hamas’ charter foretold this story. Calling for the destruction of Israel and Jews everywhere, it declares that “leaving the circle of conflict with Israel is a major act of treason.” After years of terror attacks killing nearly 1,300 innocent Israelis, witness Hamas’ relentless rocket assaults and tunnel invasions.
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Negotiations have been tried over and over for 60+ years to no avail, time to give the military option a try...
Putting evil people in the ground works very time.
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