Posted on 03/22/2019 7:38:49 AM PDT by robowombat
The so-called "Match of Return" protests are underway in the Gaza Strip.
Tensions between the Israelis and the Palestinians near the Gaza border have been mounting since last March, which marked the beginning of the Great March of Return. Thousands of Palestinians have been rallying every week since then to demand access to what they consider to be their ancestral land in Israel, prompting clashes with Israeli border guards.
In fall, the situation on the Gaza border escalated due to continued shelling and launches of arson balloons from Gaza into the Israeli territory.
I thought Judaism and Christianity required us to welcome foreigners?
When they fire rockets at you and release incendiary devices in your direction, not so much.
Send them all to their made-up allah.
Match or March?
Sounds like La Raza.
Sounds like Jewish Privilege.
Build the Palis a homeland in southern Sinai. The country will run off of alternative energy sources, with petroleum products only to be used as a backup energy source for critical infrastructure. Use the gulf of Eilat as a water source to be used in desalination efforts to provide fresh water to the new Palestine.
Bring in solar technology that can be used to coat above ground water pipelines for solar collection and build transformers and battery facilities to distribute electricity through the new country. Bring in the best architects from around the world to design offices, businesses and homes that will use alternative energy. pretty much turn the entire country of Palestine into a model for the world to gaze wide wonder at.
Move the UN to the new “Green Country” as a symbol of what the world is capable of when it pulls resources together to achieve a common goal.
Then nuke the place from orbit.....just to be sure.
The key phrase is “to what they consider to be their ancestral land” which is simply a baseless fabrication whose only purpose is to give them grounds for demanding something that isn’t theirs.
“I thought Judaism and Christianity required us to welcome foreigners?” I guess you missed the part about requiring these ‘foreigners’ to obey the Law, under penalty of death. Inconvenient for you I know.
He was being facetious... maybe even sarcastic...
The Bible said to welcome sojourners not armed invaders. That’s why there were so many wars with the Philistines
Do you let people into your house who want to take it over and kill you?
You are under no obligation to embrace an invading army or a pack of criminals. True?
Aquinas and the Catechism: A Different Perspective
But St. Thomas Aquinas would seem to approach the issue of immigration from a different perspective. In his Summa Theologiae, Aquinas was careful to divide relationships with foreigners into two categories: peaceful, and hostile. Among peaceful relationships, he identified three types of encounter which the Jews might have with foreigners who entered their lands:
Sometimes, foreigners simply passed through their land as travelers;
Foreigners came to dwell in their land as newcomers. In Exodus 22:21 and again in Exodus 22:9, the Law protected the rights of newcomers, warning “Thou shalt not molest a stranger”; and
When any foreigner wished to be admitted entirely to their fellowship and mode of worship. In this instance, the newcomer was not to be automatically admitted to citizenship. Immigrants from some countries were not to be admitted to citizenship for two or three generations.
“The reason for this,” Aquinas wrote,
“...was that if foreigners were allowed to meddle with the affairs of a nation as soon as they settled down in its midst, many dangers might occur, since the foreigners not yet having the common good firmly at heart might attempt something hurtful to the people.”
If thinking in terms of the broadest of ridiculous generalities is your gig, you definitely find no need to lock your own doors, and it’s a certainty you buy no insurance.
Beautiful post at 13!
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Too much expense.
They deserved to be bulldozed into the sea.
It is beautiful, and we can thank Dr. Thomas Aquinas for his thought and analysis!
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