re: Israel being attacked

The problem you run into is that Israel also kills women and children, and at a much higher rate. They inflict a lopsided death toll on the Palestinians. And most die in collective punishment strikes, like we see in Gaza now. This does not excuse the Palestinians, but from a Christian perspective, this is a problem, because it violates our rules about proportionality. The stronger power is held to a higher standard and its expected to act with restraint.

The calls for ethnic cleansing are also a moral problem (although it’s something that we participated in after WW2 - and shame on us for doing so.) The how is also something that people don’t think through. Are you going to kill and terrorize them till they flee? Like the Croats did. Or will you forcibly imprison them, and transport them somewhere else? May I suggest cattle cars?

Expecting either side to behave in a Christian fashion is unrealistic though, unless we’re talking about the Palestinian Christians, which is a small and unfortunately ever dwindling population. That’s partly do to the decline of the faith as a whole, and the rise of Islam in the region, but it also has a lot to do with the nasty repression that Israel subjected them to. Many left.