Where In The World Are We?

Today started out foggy where we live. By the time we organized ourselves to go out walking, our world was bathed in bright sunshine. We completed our chores and brought our bodies, weary from the effort, back home for a late lunch. The day seemed disordered because I had given up my regular exercise session to be home for a promised phone call we considered very important. No phone call!

Our lives have already been disordered for the last two months consequent on the barbaric attack by Hamas on our people in Israel. We wake in the night to stare out at the dark thinking on that. Our mental disarray has been compounded by the evidence, at home here in Canada and the U.S., indeed, around the world, that there are many who celebrate Hamas, celebrate these horrors. From the halls of the U.S. Congress, at some of the Universities of greatest repute in the world, to the crowds in major cities, we hear shouts of acclaim and approval for murder and mayhem, current and future. How shameful is that?

So many lies ring in our ears as we continue with an agonizing reappraisal of the world we live in, and who, in fact, we can rely on to maintain the civilization of which we thought we were a part. The Pope just announced we are committing genocide in Gaza. Pope Pius lived through one and saw nothing, the current Pope sees nothing and proclaims genocide. How shameful is that!

We have been living through the agonies of the hostage releases, the cat and mouse game being played to avert the delivery of just desserts to the terrorists that have brought murder and rape, arson and torture, into our living rooms. We fear for the hostages as we rage, impatient for the recurrence of a godly retribution on the heads of those who brought this evil upon us, they who promise us more and more unless they are totally destroyed.

We see so many in politics and the media offering clever stratagems to distract us in ways that might prevent us from actually realizing what we must do if we are ever to rest easy again. Seeing these campaigning people in our midst, and around the world, we come to the realization that we may never, ever, be fully confident that we can rest easy again.

In Israel, so many have been impacted by the events of October 7^th.  Government in Israel has been overwhelmed by the flood of emotion such that it has been forced to play into the hands of the enemy whose sole strategy is delay, delay, delay. The enemy’s sole hope is to put off the day of destruction. Indeed they hope to avert total destruction. Their fellow travelers are active everywhere. The weak sisters wobble between striking political poses and providing support for the good guys. The fifth column works to muddy the waters and save Hamas.  

The Israeli military must thread its way through this murkiness, including the internal Israeli politics, to deliver for us what we all need, the total destruction of Hamas in Gaza. Israel will always have to be a garrison state. It must find unity among its citizens in a reality where twenty percent of its population, has, at best, divided loyalties.

Hamas will surely live on elsewhere, encouraged by Iran and Qatar. Their minions are at the door wherever they can find entry. The oil sheikdoms will have to decide where they stand knowing Hamas and its ilk have them in their sights. The U.S. must fully appreciate where the enemy lies, stifle the internal opposition it faces, provide and mobilize the necessary worldwide support. Much of Europe has already been compromised and weakened. Russia and China take what advantage they can.

Will a divided U.S. choose to run and hide? Where in the world are we?