Perhaps It Would Have Been Better...

It seems that every blogger out there has to give his opinion of the war in Israel-Lebanon. But only a few of those bloggers have any understanding of the history involved. The rest merely regurgitate whatever their favorite media (propaganda) outlet feeds them. To begin to get an understanding of the recent history of the area I recommend A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time by Howard Sachar. It is a thorough and very nearly unbiased history of part of the region.

Perhaps it would have been better if the UN wouldn't have granted the Jews their ancestral homeland. But that decision didn't happen in a vacuum. Perhaps it would have been better if the Germans wouldn't have accepted Hitler's murderous rise to power, and his scapegoating and extermination of the Jews. Perhaps it would have been better if the Czar's wouldn't have hounded and killed the Jews. Perhaps it would have been better if every nation in Europe hadn't persecuted and killed Jews back through antiquity. Perhaps it would have been better if Christians wouldn't have defied their Lord by returning evil to those who had brought Him forth. And on and on back through history to that pesky original sin. Perhaps it would be better if all of us would realize our own small part in how messed up this world is and begin to make it right.