Posted on 08/08/2025 8:51:47 AM PDT by Red Badger
The juxtaposition could not have been more jarring. I opened TikTok only to be presented with a clip of provocateur Candace Owens ranting to Tucker Carlson about her growing hatred for Israel and its demonic behavior. I closed that app, only to open X and be greeted with this headline:
Hamas Forces Emaciated Israeli Hostage To Dig His Own Grave
Hamas force starved Israeli hostage to dig his own GRAVE.
“What I’m doing now is digging my own grave. Everyday my body becomes weaker and weaker.”
Evyatar David appeared skeletal in a newly released video as he was forced to dig his own grave in a tunnel by the terror group. pic.twitter.com/qXMJa1Jq0w— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) August 3, 2025
Speaking of demonic, Ms. Owens, the day I saw your video, Hamas has held this young man for a hellish 666 days in captivity. A man buried alive in tunnels of terror for the profound crime of going to a music festival. His continued, pitiful existence is not being leveraged by Hamas; it is being used as a symbol of humiliation and control. It isn't a strategy. It isn't resistance. It is evil.
Evil that we have seen before, of course. The images of Jewish hostage Evyatar David are indelible: gaunt, shrunken, nearly starved to death. A son and brother reduced to brittle bones wrapped in a thin layer of worn, ashen skin. They are scenes that I saw this summer as my family toured the National Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
During World War II, Jews were forced to dig their own graves before being murdered by SS paramilitary guards. Today, Jewish lives are again being destroyed in calculated, dehumanizing ways. Let's not casually dismiss this as "history repeating itself." It is far more tragic. This is humanity willfully forgetting.
One need not, as voices like Owens often suggests, debase themselves at the altar of Zionism to condemn these atrocities. Even more troubling is when those who bear the name of Christ, those regularly taunt-tweeting "Christ is King," prove unwilling to denounce evil or mourn alongside the grieving.
It is nothing if it isn't biblical to not just analyze or observe suffering, but to enter into it. The prophets of Scripture wailed over violence in their cities. Godly kings wailed and groaned when the innocent were cut down. Why professing believers today would feel obligated for tribal or geopolitical purposes to offer mere sanitized statements over the expression of holy grief is thoroughly unbecoming.
No, Evyatar David is not a brother in Christ. Instead, he is a man who stands on the precipice of entering a Christ-less grave. Torture aside, if that fact does not motivate fervent and urgent prayers from the redeemed, we have utterly and completely lost the plot. At least the one that is to define our earthly existence.
May the Church of the living Christ never become desensitized to human suffering, numb to familial grief, capable of merely scrolling past injustice on our way to offering yet another socio-political hot take. May we never forget that behind every hostage is a face, a family, a future for which we are to advocate - to weep for, witness to, and walk with in truth.
Count me as one thoroughly disinterested in discussing the subtleties of international relations and American diplomatic priorities until the tunnels are empty and the hostages are home.
Also not much interest in this from the last few weeks:
“Islamist terrorists kill 49 Christians in African church massacre; eyewitness reveals horrific details”
ABCNNBCBSNPR:
If we don’t report it, it didn’t happen.....................
Owens hasn’t the self reflection or decency to comprehend this properly.
She’ll just double down.
She’s lost her damn mind....................
ASSUMING SHE EVER HAD ONE........
Her train left the rails about 5 years ago...............
Candice Owens should stick to politics and stay away from Biblical discussions. Replacement theology that Christians are the new Jews is not Biblical. She is the reason women do not belong in the pulpit.
Praying to YHWH Mephalti, The Lord Deliverer.
Hamas is totally evil!
It must obliterated!
Lord have Mercy!
you misunderstand Owens. She’s not pro palestinian or pro Hamas. She is not pro Israel to a fault. She points out Israel’s faults and our kowtowing to their every wish/Demand. she is a against the killing of Palestinian people/civilians. where she is wrong is that war Isa means to an end. innocent people die in wars. Hostages are tortured and killed in wars. Owens Just needs to grow up into the REAL world.
NEVER negotiate with Terrorists. Just kill them all. If Hostages die, so be it. We can try to rescue them, but caving to terrorists demands only leads to MORE hostages.
She, Like Tucker are All about Clicks, Views, Likes.
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