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I knew you would read from KJV, the greatest of the translations and the one that has influenced and been quoted by most English writers, from the Romantics and Dickinson to Wilde, Virginia Woolf and James Baldwin. Unfortunately, most churches have replaced it with utterly pedestrian translations

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Your sentence "Israel is the only country in the world that gets criticized when its citizens are butchered" belongs on a billboard.

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The cowards who are brutalizing and slaughtering Israeli women and children are doing it this way now because every time their coreligionists have tried to best Israel on the battlefield, Israeli soldiers have walked over them like a bull walking over short grass.

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This, many times this: <<One of the purposes of great literature, and the need to carry it around with us, is to make sense of the world as it happens. Terrible events occur, but if we have the wisdom of the ages in our heads, we can put them into some form of context.>>

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Again, what is there to say, Mr. Murray, other than to thank you for reminding us of the things that are worth remembering.

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Just reading this news, it is unbelievable but know true:

KFAR AZA, ISRAEL - OCTOBER 10: Israeli soldiers remove the body of a civilian, who was killed days earlier in an attack by Palestinian militants on this kibbutz near the border with Gaza, on October 10, 2023 in Kfar Aza, Israel. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

Israeli soldiers shared details of unimaginable atrocities committed in a community where dozens of victims, including about 40 babies, were massacred by Hamas terrorists.

Reporters with i24 News toured the "scene of devastation" in Kfar Aza, where soldiers worked to remove bodies of victims who were brutally murdered in their homes. Some soldiers said they found babies with their heads cut off, according to i24 News.

"The community’s cars, parked outside, were completely torched. And it was just a small part of the destruction, with no exact number yet of how many people were murdered, as bodies are still being collected and removed from the homes," the report said.

More than 70 terrorists invaded the community and butchered residents, leaving naught but a "smell of death" behind, i24 News reported.

“It’s not a war, it’s not a battlefield. You see the babies, the mother, the father, in their bedrooms, in their protection rooms, and how the terrorists killed them,” IDF Major General Itai Veruv said. “It’s a massacre.”

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Dear Douglas,

Now that you’ve done poetry from Scripture, how about something rich from the world of Christian hymnody? Maybe an Advent/Christmas theme and “Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence,” or a Lenten/Passion-themed “O, Sacred Head Now Wounded” or “Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted”? Or I’d venture to assert you know some I don’t that are even better. As my son used to ask when he was little, “How ‘bout that’s a good idea?”

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The ability to see "the big picture" (i.e. fault in many places) is not moral relativism., just realism. Tribalism is what starts wars, and has been since antiquity.

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Love to hear more Biblical passages worth remembering!

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Of course I have empathy for the people of Israel enduring this horror. Pointing out that horrific attacks have occurred as far back as recorded history goes is IN NO WAY "justification". I think that divisions based upon religious beliefs have been a primary cause of such events throughout history, and I am profoundly sorry that human beings are not more rational.

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Thank you, once again, dear Douglas, for the very poignant and timely quote. May my Jewish brethren find solace during this trying time, again, in your wonderful reminder.

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There is no context for depravity. Ìti is wrong in any and every language. Period.

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Thank you Douglas. I’ve seen a ton of this moral relativism and it isn’t just coming from leftists. Even professing “Christians” all over social media taking a moment to bash Israel and Jews while shrugging apathetically at Hamas torturing and murdering women and children, spitting on their lifeless bodies. It’s revolting, but not surprising. The verse in my head all day has been Matthew 7:14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. (NIV)

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Does Douglas Murray know that the entirety of Ecclesiastes & always read in synagogues worldwide and over the millenia on the very day, Shemimi Atzeret, that these scum chose to attack? If so, thank you and if not he's even more remarkable than I imagined (and witnessed live in his triumphant Munk Debate).

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.."A time of war and a time of peace..." when is the time of peace for the people of Israel?

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Oct 9, 2023·edited Oct 18, 2023

We've outlived every oppressor, and we will outlive these animals. They pay mightily for their inhumanity. They are subhuman, and should be dealt with as you would deal with a dog who has contracted rabies. To paraphrase Golda Meir, this will end only when they love their children as much as we love ours. In the meantime, they must be stopped by any means necessary. They must be treated like the rabid dogs that they are.

To paraphrase another Israeli-If the "Palestinians" put down their weapons, there would be peace. If the Israelis put down their weapons, there would be no more Israel.

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