ISRAEL - The guns of a possible Israel-Gaza war were fired less than 12 hours after church bells rang out throughout Paris at 11 am on Sunday to commemorate the moment when the guns of World War I became silent exactly a century ago. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who had come to Paris to celebrate the 100th anniversary of that peace, cut his trip short after an IDF military operation gone awry rekindled violence with Hamas.
Earlier in the day, Paris provided Netanyahu with an apt background to speak with Israeli reporters about the unprecedented steps he has taken – including allowing the unregulated transfer of $15 million to Hamas in Gaza – to preserve the peace and avoid a “needless war” with Hamas.
For months, Israel and Hamas have hovered on the edge of war. Scattered outbreaks of violence have simmered down rather than sparked an all-out war, such as the one that occurred between the IDF and Hamas in 2014, known as Operation Protective Edge. Netanyahu has resisted political and public pressure to choose war. Instead, he has opted for a series of restrained military moves and humanitarian gestures designed to prevent an all-out conflict.
The prime minister told reporters that Israel had been very close to war in the past weeks, but that it had been averted. Then, in an unusual statement for an Israeli leader, Netanyahu said that there were no solutions to the situation with Hamas, and that the best that could be hoped for was a situation of calm.
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Today we find the Church of God in a “wilderness of religious confusion!”
The confusion is not merely around the Church – within the religions of the world outside – but WITHIN the very heart of The True Church itself!
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