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As we continue our Christ and Caesar series, Daniel Bannoura, a Palestinian Christian living in the US, is here to talk about the war in Gaza and the ways people are misinterpreting the Bible to justify extreme military action.

Daniel Bannoura's website:

 https://danielbannoura.com/

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Mindy Summers

So so good. I would love for THP to have Daniel on the main show too. So fantastic. Maybe Skye could interview him since he went with Telos last year? So many need to hear this message.

Karin

I just had a long conversation with my brother about this over the weekend. The question he was asking me was this— what do we do with the fact that Israel has offered treaties and ceasefires on clear conditions and hamas has rejected those terms? Essentially he was saying it’s hamas’ fault that Gaza is being bombed and they’re the ones responsible for all the death in their city… I’m very convinced it’s genocide and Christians should be opposing it the same as we claim we would have for slavery or the Holocaust. So how would you respond to my brother? If I could go back, I think I would say, “Whether or not it’s hamas’ fault— Israel’s response to Oct 7 has been absolutely disproportionate and genocidal.”

Nathan Tolman

That Israel is ultimately responsible for its prosecution of the war, its overall strategy and the methods used to achieve its goals. What you see sometimes with very pro-Israel people is that Hamas, as the entity with less power by far, somehow robs Israel, the significantly more powerful party, of agency through its actions. This is ludicrous. Oct. 11th demanded a response, no doubt, but it did not have to be this response. Israel has a wide array of capabilities, so a bombing and invasion were not the only possible response. For example, a campaign of raids and assassinations paired with aid to opponents of or potential replacements to the regime. They could change strategies now if they wanted to. The issue is more bombings, more killings, paradoxically strengthens Hamas's hand, because Palestinian blood shed by the Israelis is its fertilizer and concrete. The current invasion is the most extreme, but Israel has done this in the past and it has failed time and again. One could argue it reinforces Hamas's power. So why do they keep doing it? If the end goal is peace with the Palestinian population, why would they think that killing family members of Palestinians would somehow convince Palestinians that they should live in peace with Israelis?