Hamas

“At its moral center, the just war tradition… helps to guide the political sovereign… in determining when, in the last resort, the discriminate and proportionate use of military force is the only means likely to protect the innocent, right wrongs, or punish evil.” - WORLD

“As stated in its first charter, published in 1988, ‘Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.’” - Michael Brown

• Israel’s 9/11: The Need for Moral Clarity - TGC
• ‘People of Israel need our prayerful support,’ say US faith leaders from coast to coast as war continues - Fox

“Israel vowed to lay total siege to the Gaza Strip on Monday, as its military searched for militants, guarded breaches in its border fence and pounded the Hamas-ruled territory” - BPNews

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“Black Lives Matter expressed its ‘solidarity’ for Palestinians, advocating for ‘ending settler colonialism’ and Palestinian liberation in a tweet that implicitly undercut Israel after days of attacks in the region.” - C.Post

“Hamas does not care about how Jews behave. If Jews behave badly, Hamas does not care. If Jews behave nobly, it does not care. There is a reason. Hamas is an organization of Jew-haters.” - Jeffrey Salkin

“The Australian government says it has found no evidence that any of its donations to the Christian charity World Vision had been siphoned to Islamic militant group Hamas.”

“The manager of the Gaza branch of World Vision was charged yesterday by Israeli authorities with funneling millions of dollars to Hamas instead of to Palestinian children in need.” CT

The answer to the above question is “neither.”

Many are still confused, largely because of a few factors: 1) their eschatology mistakenly informs them that modern-day “Israel” is something special …