Nicholas D. Kristof of the New York times writes the following from a recent visit to the holy land.

He draws up two contrasts with the bad and ugly on one side;

“It is here in the Palestinian territories that you see the worst side of Israel: Jewish settlers stealing land from Palestinians (almost one-third of settlement land is actually privately owned by Palestinians); Palestinian women giving birth at checkpoints because Israeli soldiers won’t let them through (four documented cases last year); the diversion of water from Palestinians. (Israelis get almost five times as much water per capita as Palestinians.)”

and the beautiful, dynamic and life changing on the other;

“Yet it is also here that you see the very best side of Israel. Israeli human rights groups relentlessly stand up for Palestinians. Israeli women volunteer at checkpoints to help Palestinians through. Israeli courts periodically rule in favor of Palestinians. Israeli scholars have published research that undermines their own nation’s mythologies. Many Israeli journalists have been fair-minded toward Palestinians in a way that Arab journalists have rarely reciprocated.

I was talking to christian friend a few weeks back about the war between libanon and Israel. Should I rather say the war between Israel and Hizbollah. He expressed great distress and anger at this muslim nation that again went to war against Gods people Israel.
The sad thing is that all of libanon and the whole of the muslim world is all of a sudden put in the same catogory as terrorists everywhere. And the lebenese people are at least looked upon as muslims and a muslim nation. The truth is far from this : 50 % of all the seats in the lebenese parliment ; 65 of 128 seats are by christian groups in Lebanon!

Many of the poorest people in Lebanon are christians and are very much effected by the war. Where do the evangelical christians I meet here in Sweden want to give there support and money? Well it is certainly not to the inocent lebenese BROTHERS and SISTERS ( as christians like to call other christians) . These christians are unfortunatly forgotten by the christian world and media.

I am certain that almighty God knows exactly who and where they are. He remembers them and hears there cry for help. Let those of us who call ourselvs Christians do what Hizbollah (the bad guys ) are doing to these poor christians : helping and supporting them build up there country again. A prayer or two might also be good?

I would suggest that those in Lebanon that do not call themselves Christians are suffering and expreiancing injustices in the same way “the Christians” are. So as a follower of Jesus I should think of them as fellow brothers and sisters too, and treat them accordingly.
Sources : Time and wikipedia.org