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"He looked for Sodom and Gomorrah, and for all the land of the plain. Behold, he saw smoke rising up out of the land, like the smoke of a furnace." Gen. 19:28 HSV
The images from Gaza are captivating and shocking. Through the world, human-loving people are raising their voices together and standing up against the alleged perpetrator of Israel who is hitting the innocent population. Is this the reality?
The international resistance tried by all means to stop Israel from retreating to Rafah. The president was faced with nothing less than an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC). On top of that, Netanyahu was placed on the same line as the leaders of the recognized terrorist organization Hamas and described as a genocide.
All eyes on Rafah!
If you look at Rafah with an open eye: In search of the hostages and perpetrators of the October 7 attack, Israel has announced the invasion once again, contrary to what Hamas did on October 7. Between 800,000 and 1 million people were evacuated. Is Israel committing genocide or is it waging war against Hamas? Is Israel trying to kill or save the innocent population, something that Hamas did not?
"Then Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were to take his daughters for wives, saying, Get up! Get out of this place! For Yahweh will destroy this city. But in the eyes of his son-in-law, he was like a joke. When it was dawned, the angels appealed to Lot. They said, Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be wiped out for the iniquity of the city." Gen. 19:14-15
So who's left in Rafah? Who are the victims in Rafah and all the other cities that Israel has hit? Hamas itself? Families and supporters of Hamas? Other groups that glorify martyrdom and act as human shields?
Are we talking about Israel as a genocide or Hamas and its supporters as a suicide?
Not to mention the quote: “From the river to the sea” calls worldwide for the extermination of the entire Israeli population.
Aren't we returning to a pre-holocaust climate?
War is always frightening and intriguing on whatever side a man stands. Every victim is one too many. But yet it is a legitimate judgment in these cases of the world. The Bible speaks of it very clearly.
“She is God’s servant for your good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for she bears the sword not without cause. She is God's servant, a vengeance for the evildoer." Rom. 13:4
International law speaks of legitimate rules in warfare, i.e. to protect the civilian population. And Israel is both looking forward to rescuing its own people who are still held hostage, but also to dealing with Hamas, which has been attacking it for years.
The smoke that literally rose up from Sodom and Gomorrah “the day after” was a legitimate judgment of sin of a long age with which God dealt patiently.
Since the day Israel officially returned to its only God-given place, on 14 May 1948, its neighbours have attacked angrily and have continuously inflicted armed attacks and declared war on Israel. In the ongoing conflicts and under pressure from international peace negotiations, Israel ceded Gaza as territory to the Palestinian people in August 2005 during the Ariel Sharon administration. This gesture of peace has now been bloody rewarded. Rockets were fired on Israel from Gaza every day. October 7th was the escalation of what was constantly happening, the peak of the volcano that erupted but lasted a long time. The Israeli population in the Gaza border area lived under terror, in and out of shelters. The media will not be quick about news because ‘all eyes’ are selectively blind to injustice against Israel.
What always gets the headlines of the news and sells is when Israel takes action and stands up for its rights.
And Israel has reacted fiercely this time. But fierce was the attack of October 7, 2023.
The terrorist leadership of Gaza, Hamas, has fallen like a cherry on the cake since Israel’s return to the Promised Land, the innocent population on 7 October 2023, after years of preparations. Mass rape, kidnapping, death and torture were characteristic of that dark day. Above that, they took over 200 people from infants to the elderly as hostages.
The men of the city, the men of Sodom, from young to old, encircled the house before they slept. All the people, no one except. They called to Lot, and said to him, Where are those men who came to you last night? Bring them out to us, that we may have fellowship with them." Genesis 19:4-5
The beginning of the attempt to attack and rape the house of Lot was violent, but in fact it was an indisputable establishment of what lived and trembled in the city and why God effected such a pronounced judgment against these cities.
If the ICJ and the ICC had existed then, would they have condemned God as genocidal?
The unprecedented violent images of 7 October were sent by the perpetrators as prints to the world. One of them was nominated for a prize as media photo of the year; The half-naked young girl in the trunk of a car taken by her laughing kidnappers to Gaza... Have we spoken about humanitarianism?
Isn't this kind of love for human beings "at its softest" not selective? And isn't that always the case when it comes to Israel?
The world looks differently when it comes to this special people and country in the world. Where were your eyes on October 7th?
Israel has declared war on Hamas and is pursuing the kidnapped girls, boys, children and the elderly who have been subjected to torture every day since 7 October.
Where are their statues beside the smoke statues that the world philanthropists have in mind?
Where are the crying voices of the family members who have been going through hell every day for months?
How easily democracy bows to human values and conscience under anti-Semitism.
Ethnic cleansing in Gaza? What about the Jewish presence in all the Islamic countries in the Middle East and North Africa? Do you know that this also indicates the condition of the less pronounced Christian population in the region?
Where were the bottom-up philanthropists when 5.5 million people were killed in the Congo, when 500,000 people were murdered in Syria, 500,000 in the Sudan, 400,000 in Yemen, 300,000 in Iraq, 250,000 in Afghanistan? How did they come up with them and why didn't they talk about genocide?
The humanist demonstrators in Ghent are showing their true colors! It has now come to the point where the “peaceful protest” has turned into occupation with damage to the university, and the rector is obliged to initiate proceedings against the activists to expel them. Source: : Het laatste nieuws.
Where were the university students then? Why didn't they protest?
But when there were 35,000 (numbered by Hamas...) victims in Gaza, after Israel had made days of announcements, pamphlets, phones, mobilisations, the world stands up to point Israel with the finger. Now the Israeli army is working with precision to avoid as many civilian casualties as possible.
All eyes on Israel?
“For these are the spirits of demons, who do signs, and go out to the kings of the earth and of all the earth, to gather them together for the battle of the great day of God Almighty. See, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watcheth, and keepeth his clothes, that he walk not naked, and his shame be not seen. And he gathered them together in the place which in Hebrew is called Armageddon.” Revelation 16:14-16
Whoever has eyes, look! Whoever has ears, listen.
In 2014, the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haran kidnapped hundreds of girls and three Israeli boys (students 16 and 19 years old) were taken hostage by Hamas and then killed. Then the streets were empty, the universities were silent... Weren't these lives important? Why is there so much protest when it comes to Israel? Should we note that anti-Semitism has never actually disappeared but has continued to remain silent? Why is Israel being deprived of the right to stand up for the hostages and for the 1,200 deadly victims that fell there on 7 October?
At present in Belgium, Jewish students are being discriminated against, humiliated and attacked at universities. When this is, these students are referred to a psychologist instead of addressing the root of anti-Semitism and racism. Let us not forget that anti-Semitism is not an opinion but a crime.
How easily democracy bends to human values and conscience under anti-Semitism.
Under pressure from the students in the Flemish universities, the ties with the universities in Israel are being broken. They are calling for a mass boycott, but they do not realize what ties are being broken and what the consequences are for both Jewish and Arab schoolchildren. More than 30% of the students at the universities in Haifa and Tel Aviv are Arab youth.
Our organization expresses its deep sympathy for all innocent victims and conveys its sincere wish for peace for everyone who truly acknowledges and respects each other’s right to exist.
Shalom,
On behalf of the Belgian Coalition for Israel,