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Haaretz
Israeli Settlers Filmed Taking Palestinian Livestock Under IDF Protection
Hey Watchmen,
I've said it before and I'll say it again — I love Israel, I stand with Israel, I've walked that land and felt safer there than in most American cities. But loving a nation doesn't mean covering for wrongdoing done in its name, and when settlers are filmed taking Palestinian livestock while IDF soldiers stand by and protect the theft, that is not settling the land Elohim gave — that's plunder dressed up in a uniform. Torah doesn't have a loophole for that. Amos 5:11-12 nails it: "you trample on the poor and exact a tribute of grain from them... you afflict the righteous, you take a bribe, and turn aside the poor in the gate." My friends, taking a man's sheep or his cattle because you have the guns and he doesn't — that's not inheritance, that's oppression, and the prophets never went easy on Israel's own leadership when they did this exact thing.
This is exactly the kind of "bad look" I've been warning about — it wounds the witness of a nation that's supposed to be a light, and it hands ammunition to every voice looking to paint the whole Land as lawless. Fools on either side who think they can crush and steal and call it settling — I don't care what side they're on — are storing up trouble. Scripture is clear that Elohim watches how the powerful treat the vulnerable inside the gates, and He does not grade on a curve for people who claim His name while doing wrong to their neighbor.
Keep your eyes open, Watchmen — not to excuse the evil coming from Gaza, not to excuse anything on any side, but because how nations treat the powerless right now is being written down, and the Day is coming when every account gets settled. Stay awake, stay discerning, and keep watching.
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