"There is death in Gaza" // My two cents

"There is death in Gaza" I just read here on social media. 

The point of that phrase being that while the Israeli community smile and celebrate their unjust government, there were people dying on the other side - unarmed and therefore treated unfairly. 

Some say Israeli with guns and ammunition against sticks and rocks. Fair observation.

But is it?

I will be honest. It was shocking to see that when it came down to fact/truth and current affairs (not always the same thing unfortunately), we a people that thank God for our rugby wins defy this same God throwing shade at his people choosing to celebrate.

If you really knew what this people had to endure in only seven decades ago, you would understand why they fight the way they do; why they've had to create the best and finest of of all finest ammunitions for themselves from NOTHING; why and how they built an empire and A- State-Of-The-Art economy... If you knew or saw how they were almost nothing, led to the slaughter much worse than the pictures we share of Gaza today; if you saw pictures of the surrounding seven countries/kingdoms that attacked this small country of Jews all at the same time! If you saw how they small as they are, how they fought. What they lost. And always making it through. Time and time and time again, throughout the history of mankind, they survived! No one sided with them. No one shared posts and pictures of the casualties they suffered. No one felt sorry for them. No one spoke up for them. No one knew the depth of what they suffered and how. No one but them. And maybe as fair as we claim the world should be, for a people that experienced far less than that - it just doesn't fit. 

For decades they've been the target. For decades they've slowly and successfully developed all on their own. I cannot, cannot call them out as the villain in this. They've marked history with their miraculous survival and for us as a people who claim we serve the same God, or at least praise the same God when our rugby boys win tournament after tournament, I reckon we're the ones who's being unfair here.

Now I don't rejoice in the images of casualties and death in general, but I believe in a God. I believe in this God that's proved himself true to his people, to be true to His word to heal the land and people at stake here, and maybe that seems impossible but maybe it isn't. Because He is the God that makes a way, I know we're but scratching the surface of what can turn around here. Because. He. Can.