The concept of, “To save one life is to save the whole world,” grows out of the biblical creation of humankind, the world, through the creation of a single person, Adam. Jewish exegesis places demands on the Jewish People that flow from the Torah, the bible. Also, “To destroy a life is to destroy the whole world.” By extension, with or without knowledge, these concepts also apply to non-Jewish human beings.
For centuries, the course and demands of life failed to match humanistic and religious requirements to uphold these two mirror-image concepts. Reality finds religion in the roots of killing, in the roots of mass murder. Killing for wealth does not trample moral convictions, but killing for religion is totally at odds with moral convictions – or so it must be.
Rockets have been fired by Hamas, an Islamic terrorist group, at Israel in an attempt to kill its citizens.
Israel’s struggle to survive in the sea of Islamic hatred and Islam’s determination to commit genocide of the Jewish People in a second attempt after the Nazi holocaust is totally at odds with moral conviction by any definition. The Gaza War started years ago with daily rocket attacks on Israel by Islamist militants, terrorists by common definition, determined to kill Jews. Until Israel’s retaliation, this criminal immoral genocidal action was applauded by the population of Gaza. Palestinian, Muslim, and peace-loving people’s tears and rage flow from Israel’s reaction and no connection seems to connect the Arab action and the Israeli reaction.
The moral dilemma for Israel is whether it is trying to save life by destroying life? Is it trying to save the world by destroying the world?
The moral dilemma for the world, including the world of Islam, is whether it at all faces a moral dilemma? Apparently not.
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