When Israel evacuated the Gaza Strip and handed it over to the Palestinians in 2005, they began daily shipments of goods into Gaza.  Included in those goods over the years was cement, meant to help Palestinians build homes, nice office buildings, schools, hospitals, etc.  But, despite hundreds of thousands of tons of cement, one rarely sees new homes, nice office buildings, schools or hospitals in the Gaza Strip.  Why?  Because that cement was used to build a very extensive tunnel system from Gaza into Egypt (in order to smuggle weapons) and into Israel (to launch terror attacks!)  The picture above is an example of one of the tunnels recently found in Gaza.

You might be surprised to find that Israel has shipped literally tons of goods to Gaza over the years.  In fact, see for yourself: Gaza Receives Thousands of Tons in Goods and Materials

Amazingly, even while being shelled incessantly, Israel has continued to send shipments of humanitarian aid and daily goods to Gaza. In addition, they have built a field hospital to care for injured Palestinians.

What other nation in the world would go to such lengths to care for their enemies?  None that I know of.  Yet the world condemns Israel for doing all that is necessary to defend their own citizens.  While Israel uses well-guided rockets to protect Israeli children and citizen, Hamas uses children and citizens to protect their misguided rockets.  The paradox continues.

We must stand for righteousness, friends.  Israel is not perfect, but they are also not controlled by evil tyrants.  Indeed, they are reaching out to their enemies, even in the face of international pressure to give up their quest to provide safety for their citizens.  Pray for wisdom for world leaders.  Pray for safety of innocent civilians on both sides of the border.  And pray that the Prince of Peace will be made known to Jews and Palestinians alike.