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As we political laymen try to understand – and as the world’s statesmen try to resolve – the tragedies in Gaza and the ongoing war in Ukraine, we encounter an element common to all military crises: the danger of centrifugal force.
Since Oct. 7, I have been trying to understand something incomprehensible. There is a lot that has happened since that bloody date that is incomprehensible, but I don’t mean the planned slaughter of civilians and innocent children in Israel – hatred gone mad and inhumane is not completely incomprehensible, for we see it daily. The sin is “ever before us,” as the psalmist says, though writ small.