Avi Shafran at Cross-Currents: Highlighting the saga of Gaza families lamentably displaced by the bombings, as civilians unfortunately are in even the most justified wars, the reporters interviewed the members of one such family, whose home stands next to a Hamas compound. After recounting “the utter fear and panic they all felt as the missiles…
Robert J. Lieber in the Washington Post: Hard Truths about the Conflict. Summarized by Rod Dreher of the Dallas Morning News: 1. Israel’s airstrikes have been precisely aimed at Hamas fighters. Reportedly 80 percent of those killed are Hamas members, not civilians. Israel is trying to kill fighters; Hamas is trying to kill civilians. There’s…
In North Carolina, a sikh who wanted to donate to a local mission was turned away because he wouldn’t remove his turban. Interfaith organizations are demanding an apology.
23-year old Robert Tolan, son of major league baseball player Bobby Tolan, shot by a Bellaire policeman while he lay on the ground in handcuffs in his own driveway, having commited the crime of driving while black.
Mollie looks at recent reports at GetReligion.
