The short video speaks for itself.
Military training typically indoctrinates soldiers into dehumanizing the “enemy.” Yet, even if that could be justified (which a Christian conscience forbids), what is happening now in Gaza is not a military conflict.
The target is an unarmed young man posing no threat whatsoever to the soldiers. He carries no weapon, not even a raised fist. This is not a battle; it is an execution.
The victim’s only crime was being Palestinian. For that infraction, he had been tried, convicted and sentenced long ago.
His only provocation was objecting to an insufferable occupation that has denied him of every human right. Yet, his presence at the Gazan protests demonstrates that he had not surrendered himself to Israel’s dehumanizing demands.
So Israel terminated him for insubordination. Holding one’s head up is an act of terrorism in Israel, if you are a Palestinian.
Israel’s Zionist policies had worked at dehumanizing this young man all of his life. He was defined as Israel’s enemy the day he was born, not by his parents, mind you, but by Israel itself.
The sniper’s outburst of joy and laughter demonstrates who has truly been dehumanized by a lifetime of Zionist indoctrination.
What further proof is necessary to show that the American, evangelical love affair with modern Israel is a twisted relationship that must end? If pious Bible-believers do not see this execution and recoil with shame, then how hard have out hearts become?
Persistently saying, No, to the Holy Spirit leads us into an ever-darker place where conscience eventually dies, “as if it were seared with a hot iron” (1 Timothy 4:2).
