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President (Joe) Biden and many members of Congress are outraged that the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
However, in its statement regarding these warrants, the ICC asserts that there is reasonable evidence to conclude that Netanyahu and Gallant “intentionally and knowingly†deprived the civilian population of Gaza of food, water and medical supplies, including anesthesia.
Furthermore, according to the ICC, this lack of anesthesia forced doctors to perform amputations on adults and children with no safe ways to sedate them.
Dr. Mike M. Mallah is a trauma surgeon from Charleston, S.C., who volunteered at a hospital in Gaza.
In an interview, Mallah fought back tears as he described “anesthesiologists who don’t have anesthesia who are holding people down and singing to them so that they can comfort them and do their surgery.â€
The ICC, which also issued an arrest warrant for one of the few surviving leaders of Hamas, is not equating Israel with this terror group.
Rather, the ICC is evaluating Israel’s actions against the standards of International Humanitarian Law.
TERRY HANSEN
Milwaukee, Wisc.
Sheep or goats? Better to be sheep who are truly saved and obedient
According to the Word of God, Jesus will come back to Earth to destroy the ungodly and wicked humans that survive the deadly events that will start when Jesus breaks each of the seven seals of the Book of God.
In 2 Thessalonians 1:8, it says that Jesus will return to earth, “in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.â€
Unbelievers should take that as a warning and start seeking the Lord God, who is “the Lord of heaven and earth.â€
God is the only one who gives eternal life to humans, and then gives them to Jesus.
When God gives this eternal life to a person, it is said that the individual is “born again.â€
That should be the ultimate goal, which is, salvation from going to Hell, and eternal punishment in the lake of fire and brimstone.
The Bible tells us, in the book of Revelation, Chapter 19, that the “beast†and the “false prophet†“were taken†and “both cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.â€
And it also tells us that their armies were then “slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse†(meaning Jesus).
In the next chapter, it tells us an assigned angel comes from Heaven, binds the “old serpent†which is the Devil and Satan, and bounds him for a thousand years.
After the above evil-doers have been placed in their proper places, Jesus will sit in his glorious throne, and then his angels will gather what the Word of God calls the sheep and the goats.
The angels will separate them and place the sheep to the right of him, and the goats to the left.
The sheep are those truly saved and followed God’s and the shepherd (Jesus) commands. They are told to go and rule the Earth for a thousand years.
The goats are those who claim to be saved but continued to disobey God and his son Jesus, and that commit iniquity against their fellowman.
To them, Jesus will say, “I never knew you, depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels†(Matt. 25:41)
Unfortunately, for the masses, the reason Jesus says, I never knew you, is because God never gave them to HIM.
THEY WERE NOT SAVED BECAUSE THEY FAILED TO OBEY GOD!
America is FULL of those people.
MANUEL YBARRA JR.
Coalgate, Okla.
FEMA workers, Duke Energy repairmen ripped
I read an article in the Asheville Daily Planet about how FEMA workers in Florida and in North Carolina have been caught refusing to provide services to (Donald) Trump supporters.
Similarly, Duke Power repairmen in North Carolina have always refused to repair the lines and to restore the power to people they don’t like...
And they refuse to help repair the lines and remove fallen trees on homes of people they dislike.
But FEMA and Duke Power aren’t the only culprits.
Blacklists and blacklisting people became a part of life here in America during the Cold War, McCarthy-era witch hunts and blacklist and blacklisting period in American history.
And blacklists and blacklisting became cemented into American culture after the 9/11 attack, when President George W. Bush transformed America into a national security state and a surveillance society.
Yes, FEMA and Duke Power are wrong to blacklist.
But all home service and repair companies blacklist.
The whole community participates in blacklisting those on Community Watch, and those who social media requests to be blacklisted.
Every inch of America blacklists because every community blacklists.
But this doesn’t excuse FEMA and Duke Power.
And a lot of people have frozen to death because Duke Power didn’t restore their power in cold weather because they were on the (expletive deleted) list that Duke Power repair crews make... and keep!
RICHARD D. POPE
Hendersonville
EDITOR’S NOTE: The story to which letter-writer and reader Richard Pope refers appeared in the Nov. 20 edition of the Daily Planet (including the Asheville, Hendersonville and Upstate South Carolina editions). The story’s headline — “Fla. sues FEMA for alleged bias against Trump backers in quest to ensure that all Americans received service†— included a drop-headline stating: “‘Similar conduct occurred in N.C.,’ lawsuit claims.†The story quoted from and summarized allegations expressed by Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, who filed the lawsuit against FEMA on behalf of the State of Florida.
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