Once upon a time if someone mistreated you, revenge could take any form, including death. When the people of Israel introduced the Hammurabi Code of ‘an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth’ (Exodus 21:23-27) it limited retribution to the same proportion that you had been wronged. It was a major step forward. Jesus then turned that on its head with his ‘love your enemy’!

Today, we seem to be further back, dangling in the law of the jungle. While tariff talk is taking up the column inches and headlines, the ongoing butchery of a defenceless people almost goes unnoticed. Outrage is flagging over the ongoing murder of Palestinian women and children by an out of control IDF (Israel Defense Force).

We are consumed with the ‘price of everything’ as we watch our values dissipate. Our sense of anger has been worn down by the daily buffeting of bodies and body counts. Just when we think things cannot get much worse PM Netanyahu and his IDF hardliners create a new low in horror and abhorrence, with American support.

No one is safe from their tariff of treachery.........

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