PEACE OR NOT?

 I saw this on Instagram: 

                    "THE CONFLICT EXPLAINED"

Hamas:  We want a ceasefire.

Israel:    I thought you wanted to kill us all and take over all the land.

Hamas:  We do want to kill you take all your land.

Israel:    But I thought you wanted a ceasefire.

Hamas:  Correct. We want to kill all of you and take all your land but we                                                                                                             also want you to stop fighting back.

The horrific deal just signed is essentially the same at the one proposed last May. It includes a paltry release of only 33 hostages along with thirty (count-em) terrorists released for each one including known murderers. Right back to Gaza to continue their fight.  Who does these things?  A 30 to 1 swap? The guilty for the innocent???  They already said they would report October 7th before the ink was dry. A lot more people could die than the number of hostages released.

We did not sign withe Germany or Japan and they did not lift up arms to threaten to either. Wars only end when there is absolute surrender by the defeated side. Anything else is simply a pause and a chance to regroup.

If you see how God treated hostilities in the Old Testament it was either total destruction or total surrender. Period. 

Hamas has admitted no guilt and says they won. That bodes very poorly, but when you know what you are dealing with, you have to act accordingly. There is no good faith here.  

The deal should have been the return of all hostages immediately. No prisoner exchange. Israel has done that in the past and it simply begs for more hostilities. There needed to be total surrender of Hamas and incarceration or death penalty procedures as there was in Germany after World War II for Nazi War criminals.  (It is no coincidence that Muslims admire Hitler so much - they are birds of the same feather.) Anything else is an illusion and makes peace harder to obtain.

Why either the outgoing president or the incoming one would crow over this deal is beyond me. While we all want peace, we know there will be no lasting peace until Jesus comes back. So at least some temporary peace, we have to operate in reality and not pretend anyone is more honorable than they are.