From: andronicus451@gmail.com   
      
   P.P.S.   
      
   Regarding the rockets indiscriminately fired upon the Israeli civilians,   
   killing some 1,400, I believe that they (Hamas) were misguided.   
      
   Al-Maidah 5:45   
   We ordained for them in the Torah, “A life for a life, an eye for an eye, a   
   nose for a nose, an ear for an ear, a tooth for a tooth—and for wounds equal   
   retaliation.” But whoever waives it charitably, it will be atonement for   
   them. And those who do    
   not judge by what Allah has revealed are ˹truly˺ the wrongdoers.   
      
   This "life for a life" never meant murdering innocent persons at random. It   
   was meant to be settled by the elders and the judges. Noble Qur'an has zero   
   tolerance for the "collateral damage". Even when it always happened in the   
   history, it was not    
   justified by the faith, but a "haram" deed (sin). Before 1914, the armies   
   would usually array against each other on the battlefield, and one side would   
   take victory. Though there were sieges of cities, raids and plunders on the   
   villages, in the last    
   century or so, the most of the victims are civilian casualties, starting with   
   carpet bombing and not ending with nuclear weapons and napalm.   
      
   Al-Nisa 4:112   
   And whoever commits an evil or sinful deed then blames it on an innocent   
   person, they will definitely bear the guilt of slander and blatant sin.   
      
   Al-Kahf 18:74   
   So they proceeded until they came across a boy, and the man killed him. Moses   
   protested, “Have you killed an innocent soul, who killed no one? You have   
   certainly done a horrible thing.”   
      
   In this conflict between IDF and Hamas, it appears that 90% or more casualties   
   are civilian, mainly due to despicable attitude of the Israelis towards the   
   value of the life of a Palestinians child.   
      
   However, since the Sabra and Shatila massacre in 1982, when IDF tanks   
   commanded by the defence minister Ariel Sharon (later elected PM - which   
   coincided with the rise of Hamas) surrounded the Palestinian refugee camp and   
   left the slaughter to the    
   Lebanese "Christian" Phalangists in revenge to a murder of their leader   
   allegedly by the PLO ... Palestinians might be entitled to their own defence   
   forces and a self-defence militia. Hamas is only labeled as a terrorist   
   organisation by some political    
   parties, recognised as legitimate organistation by the others, yet shows the   
   traits of a political subject that can be negotiated with in the hardest   
   possible circumstances where they were tested.   
      
   in the LORD God Merciful, Almighty   
   Amen   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)