A Lament:
Why do you make me look at injustice?
Why do you tolerate wrongdoing?
Destruction and violence are before me;
there is strife, and conflict abounds.
Therefore the law is paralyzed,
and justice never prevails.
The wicked hem in the righteous
so that justice is perverted.
Habakkuk 1:3-4
Startling, isn’t it? How a prophet’s word from more than 2500 years ago can so accurately capture current reality—in and concerning the very same land and people!
We at Kairos West Michigan abhor violence, whether it be from Palestinian factions or from settlers, from the occupier or from the occupied. Especially however, we speak out against the state-sponsored and state-condoned violence commonly used by the powerful against the powerless.