MATTHEW 5: 44---"LOVE YOUR ENEMIES AND PRAY FOR THOSE WHO PERSECUTE YOU" (Berean Standard Bible)
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HISTORICALLY, HAMAS
Propagandizes civilian loss...
Women and children
Placed for killing,
In a way that civilized people consider gross.
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Yet for these we pray,
That somehow they'd see their way....
In being resolute
Jews to persecute,
That they'd try another way.
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For them it's total war,
A propaganda score....
Kill and draw back
Waiting for attack,
Letting the Israelis do more.
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How do you love haters,
Who kill and bait invaders...
Yet I must try
For in my God's eye
To do so really matters!
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Especially when I've identified
With the Israeli side....
Spiritually
Grafted into the tree
With Abraham's faith I reside.
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Yet Hamas claims Abraham too,
Through Ishmael's issue...
Isaac chosen,
Ishmael frozen
Out, centuries of feud.
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We pray for Hamas as they look
With hate on "the people of the Book"*
Religious persecution
Not wanting resolution,
If only a new vision they'd brook!
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We pray for their hostages too,
Women and babies it's true....
Comfort them
Where they're in
In danger and tortured anew.
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Jonathan Caswell
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*people of the Book--as Jews are described in the Koran
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