It's just as well you didn't know that I was on "blogger-strike" for the past 3 weeks due to the Lebanon/Israel clashes (understatment of the century). My sudden silence has no doubt added to & heightened the effect....basically summing up how I feel about the whole situation in general.--No words!!!
Yet--surprise, surprise--I've somehow managed to put my feelings down on paper (blog). I figured there has to be a way to express my concern/disgust at the state this world is seeming to slip (or make that nosedive) into at increasingly alarming speeds. So know what you're up for if you read the rest of this page.
Of course, this is about a month old now (1 week horrified by news + 3 week blog strike = one month)& many poeople are probably even forgetting the severity of the thing due to either having heard about it so many times now, or just the fact that time goes on as it always has....Nonetheless, we need to remember that this is still horrific reality for all those there that are directly involved in this mess.
Never mind the fact that the whole thing sprang out of absolutely nothing, everyone’s still gonna go ahead & say that the thing’s ok??? And what’s just as bad is that the U.N. just sits around & does nothing—absolutely nothing—about the situation. I mean you read headlines about how certain spokespersons of the U.N. say they, or their nations are (get this)…:“outraged”…about the fact that the Israeli’s ignored what was obviously an empty threat, suggesting that they stop what they’re doing.
“Ohhhhhhh!” you say, “So you’re on Lebanon’s side”. "Sides" is not the issue! The issue is that there's killing going on & I’m not talking about a regular armed conflict (which of course we can all at any time accept & understand by this point, especially since the media has spent so much of the last 2 years bombarding us with "heroic tales" of American & British forces in Iraq as they institute "democracy"--a whole 'nother subject in itself, I won't even get started.), I’m talking about regular completely innocent civilians being told by the Israelis that they ought to leave the town where they've been peacefully living due to Hezbollah & then meeting their death via a bomb from the same people who told them to leave on the bridge as they’re leaving town. Don’t tell me you didn’t hear about that! HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO?????? Can you believe that s--t????
I also saw on the news about a reporter who was in Lebanon & reported what he saw (some of the same above things I mentioned as well) & was accused of being an anti-semitist (or however you spell that). WHAT THE…..????? Let me tell you right now, that I am anti-religionist, anti-americanist, anti-terrorist, anti-nazist, anti-florist, anti-fascist, anti-nudist, anti-environmentalist, & anti-semitist all in one if any single of the above parties has anything to do with killing innocent people. And you’d like to tell me you’re not?
That’s my next question for people like this….do you actually think that what the Israelis are doing is right? Now don’t get me wrong…I’m not pro-Hezbollah if that’s what you’re thinking. Killing is wrong! But that doesn’t mean that if 2 of your soldiers get arrested you ought to start killing every which civilian in sight.
(Here’s where I remind you that the above question (asking your opinion) was rhetorical. I’m not actually asking for your opinion…..I can find that on YOUR blog. This is where you find out how I feel about the situation (!). That’s all there is to this! (Of course the seemingly contradictory phrase follows: feel free to comment on this post at any time ())
But it is genuinely sad!!! I read this quote on BBC news tonight:
“More than 1,000 Lebanese, most of them civilians, have now been killed in the hostilities, the Lebanese government has said. Some 122 Israelis, most of them soldiers, have also been killed.”
"Well what are you gonna do about it?" you might sarcastically ask! Well to be honest, I don’t speak only out of outrage as to what this world is becoming—make that HAS BECOME—I also speak out of a desire to do my part to change my part of the world (small tongue twister there). To me this used to be “home”, (Belgium or Holland, or the U.S. where I was born (of course “home” is really Heaven, as that’s where I’ll spend eternity)). But then I moved to Africa & have been a missionary there for the last 6 years, so I started changing the world where I was there. Now I’m starting to see that the whole world is where I am. I’m on the planet am I not? Stories that I hear of things that go on make me wish I wasn’t sometimes..…but I am…..I know it’s for a reason. So it should be up to me to do my part to better the lives of all earth-dwellers everywhere, after all Jesus commissioned me to “Go & preach the good news everywhere”.
Perhaps if my prayers are answered (there we go—now it’ll happen for sure) I will one day soon be able to go to one of these places, be it Lebanon or Israel or the Sudan, or Congo, or wherever else where people are suffering injustly, & share a message of peace with the people; A message that God does care even though others do not. A message that He is coming again to change things & that in the mean time the best thing they can do is to hold on, as well as receive His love into their hearts, so that no matter what their earthly fate, their spirits will live on in love forever. This is my mission! This is only way I can think now to change the world.
