Epigraph
Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they will see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they will be called children of God. (Matthew 5:7-9)
Israeli PM Netanyahu and Turkish PM Erdogan
Source: World Bulletin / News Desk
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on the international community to intervene immediately to halt Israeli airstrikes.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on the international community to intervene immediately to help stop Israeli airstrikes on Gaza.
Erdogan said in a phone conversation with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday, that the ceasefire agreement signed between Israel and Palestine in 2012 should be reinstated, according to Turkish Foreign Ministry officials.
He said that the Israeli government needed to understand that national security could only be ensured through a fair and comprehensive peace.
Following the conversation, Erdogan also had a phone conversation with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, during which the two leaders agreed that the Israeli offensive must end.
Erdogan and Rouhani both stressed the urgent need for a ceasefire and provision of humanitarian aid to the Gazans.
It seems to me the UN should go into Gaza and stop the rockets going into Israel that cause the Israelis to defend their nation. PM Erdogan, however, is Islamic and always sides with Muslims no matter how radical. Erdogan is simply wrong and immoral supporting a terrorist organization like Hamas.
Bismillah hirrehman nirrehim
Whatever it may be innocents should not be killed from both sides.
So called ‘Hamas-rockets’ to my knowledge did not kill a single Israeli. Just sort of ‘annoying’ …
Reply to Ed Bradford
Would you say the same thing if you were a resident in Gaza? A bit of emphaty please…
If Israel stops its aggression towards the Palestinians there would be no resistance movements. Hamas is the product of Israeli aggression and nothing else. Don’t forget Israeli Army personnel have been recorded meting out such a cruelty like breaking bones of Palestinian kids and on occasions then burning their live bodies. Do you think that any suppressed Nation will not revolt? Dear Ed Bradford, would you like to spend a day in Gaza or even in the West Bank on Palestinian side under occupation? Not a day goes by when there is not an aggression from either the Israeli Army or the Settlers, I am sure you would not. If America wants peace in that Region then stop the financial and the military aid to Israel and demand end to all the hostilities towards the Palestinians, then Palestinians would have no reason to respond and it will result in peace.
Quoting the Torah
Judaism, like Christianity and Islam, bases its spirituality in human compassion:
Quoting the Quran
If the UN should enter Gaza to “stop the rockets”, then that would be a worthwhile task indeed. Because no innocent civilians should be subjected to violence. Presumably though, on this basis, they should also have a broader mandate to stop the ongoing brutality and discrimination that accompanies Israel’s military occupation of the Palestinian territories. No? Israel doesn’t think so either, which is why it has consistently resisted UN monitors operating there.
The idea that “defend(ing) their nation” requires Israel to also disproportionately kill innocent civilians whom they already militarily occupy, is nonsensical barbarity. Israel operates on the basis that an Israeli life is worth more than a Palestinian one, and also on the principle of collective punishment. This is why, following the recent murder of three Israeli teenagers, the houses of those they accused in Gaza were extra judicially blown up. The houses of the ultra nationalist Jews who murdered and burnt an innocent Palestinian teenager in revenge on the other hand, remain standing. Why? Selective justice. If the government of Hamas was to take it upon themselves to extra judicially blow those houses up, what would that be? Terrorism?
The only justice worth pursuing is absolute justice. Anything short of that is not worth the name. So yes, I agree with you, let the UN or whoever else stop the rockets. They’re indiscriminate and unjustifiable. But let them also stop the airstrikes, the shootings of Palestinian civilians, the military incursions and mass arbitrary detentions, the checkpoints and economic blockades, the ongoing settler violence and destruction of Palestinian farms and orchards, the ongoing theft of Palestinian land, and the illegal occupation itself. Why stop at just the rockets?
May Allah have mercy on the poor Palestines and save them from the wicked oppressors. amen yaa Rabbi