A house destroyed in the October 7 massacre six months ago, Kibbutz Kfar Azha, southern Israel, April 7, 2024. (Photo: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
talk to washington times This week, ALL ISRAEL NEWS Editor-in-Chief Joel Rosenberg highlighted how the current war in Gaza is having a profound psychological impact in addition to the obvious material impact.
“this [conflict] It shook Israel to our core,” Rosenberg said. “As a Bible believer, I believe this comes from the Hebrew prophet Amos, chapter 9, verse 9, where God says, “In the future, in the last days, It will shake the whole house of Israel.’ And the house of Israel was very much shaken.”
“People are wondering, ‘Is there a God?’ Does he love us? Can he be trusted? And will he show us a way out of this situation?” Do you?”
Rosenberg said Israelis view the psychological impact of the conflict differently depending on their religious orientation.
“Some religious people are angry and say, “God has abandoned us, or maybe God is not there,” and secular people are angry, “We have abandoned God.” Maybe he’s there. And it’s not our fault…it’s not that we were attacked, it’s that we weren’t under his care and care. ” he said.
in recent episodes Victor Kalisher, a prominent Messianic Jewish leader in Israel and president of the Israel Bible Society, corroborated this opinion in TBN’s Rosenberg Report.
“I think it’s much more open and exploratory.” [in recent decades]Especially in this time of war,” Kalisher said.
“There are a lot more people quoting scripture and trying to explore spirituality… They are looking for spirituality… They are looking for divine intervention.”
But the psychological impact of the war is not limited to Jewish Israelis, and many Palestinians in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip may begin to reconsider their support for Hamas-style radical Islamism.
The “massive chaos” following Israeli ground operations in Gaza means “it will take some time for the smoke to clear, both literally and figuratively,” before the impact on the mental lives of Palestinians is measured. ”, Rosenberg pointed out.
“But we’ve seen elsewhere that when people are joining violent, radical Islamism, when they start to be defeated, the culture starts to be reconsidered,” he added. Ta.
Displaced Palestinians set up tents next to the Egyptian border with the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 8, 2024. (Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
On a recent episode of THE ROSENBERG REPORT, Mr. Rosenberg said: Iranian evangelist Hormoz ShariatHe said tens of millions of people, many of them Christians, have doubts about the Iranian regime’s Islamist approach.
“The Iranian revolution underway under the regime [is] Not just for democracy [where people are saying,] “Get out of our face about your evil and corrupt brand of religion, we don’t stand for it, we won’t do it. We’re done, look for what’s true. Give me freedom,” Rosenberg said.
“There’s a lot of excitement in both Islamic and Jewish culture, with people reconsidering what they’ve been taught and asking questions they’ve never asked before,” he added.
“And many, but not all, of them read the Bible, both the Old and New Testaments, and are looking for answers.”
