When Fire Is Mercy: Why Israel Must Finish the Fight

The Sun published a fiery piece concerning the tragedy in Gaza this week, one that gets surprisingly close to the truth for a mainstream outlet. In a media landscape awash with moral confusion, institutional antisemitism, and progressive virtue-signaling, at least one editor had the moral clarity to say what many won’t:

“Many support Hamas—I fear for the soul of the UK.” The Sun

For all the antisemitism we’re seeing in the West, fear is the proper response. A nation that makes peace with that kind of evil is not on the path to justice—it is eroding from within.

Meanwhile, Israel continues to endure pressure to show restraint—while being hunted. Let’s be clear: there is no moral equivalency between a sovereign nation defending its people and a terrorist regime whose charter calls for Jewish genocide. None.

1. Hamas is the Palestinian people

This must be said plainly. Hamas is not a fringe group. It is the government of Gaza. It is also the employer, protector, next-door neighbor, and immediate family of the people who live there. The widespread lie that the “people of Gaza” are innocent victims of Hamas is a convenient Western fairytale—divorced from both evidence and reality.

• These people elect Hamas.
• They rally in the streets under Hamas flags, chanting “death to Israel” and “from the river to the sea,” echoing Hamas’s genocidal aims.
• They shield Hamas leaders with their homes, their children, and their silence.

There is no resistance movement inside Gaza against this death cult. And there is no widespread rejection of its antisemitic charter. Quite the opposite. The truth is simple: the Palestinian population of Gaza is not only complicit—they’re committed.

2. The War Crimes Playbook: Hamas Is Counting on Your Tears

Let’s be blunt: Hamas uses civilian suffering as a strategic weapon. Every dead child is a photo op. Every bombing—an invitation to CNN. They fire rockets from schools, hide in hospitals, transport weapons in ambulances, and set up command posts under mosques—because they know Western media will take the bait and turn Israel into the villain.

This is not collateral damage—it’s propaganda theater. And too many in the West play their part.

If Hamas uses human shields and Israel warns civilians to leave—and they stay? That blood is on them. Period.

3. A Prophetic Pattern: Amalek, Babylon, and Now

From Genesis to Revelation, God consistently calls for the destruction of nations that rise against His covenant people. Think of Amalek in Exodus 17. Babylon in Jeremiah 51. Even Revelation 18’s call to come out from the great harlot before judgment falls serves as a prophetic warning—not just about one city in the end times, but about any culture that gives itself fully to wickedness and the persecution of God’s people.

Hamas is not an exception. It is the modern manifestation of that same ancient hatred. As The Atlantic puts it:

“The original covenant spells out clearly Hamas’s genocidal intentions.” The Atlantic

When you chant, “Free Palestine,” while demanding that Israel disarm, what you’re really saying is: “Finish what Hitler started.”

4. Fire from heaven—or Dresden

Let’s remember history. In World War II, when the citizens of Nazi Germany refused to rise up against their murderous antisemitic regime, the Allies didn’t hold back. They firebombed cities, leveled strongholds, and crushed the Nazi war machine—because it was the only way to stop the evil.

Were there innocent people in Dresden? Absolutely. But the guilt of silence, complicity, and shared genocidal ideology made the cost unavoidable. That was just war. And that is where we are again.

If Hamas uses civilians as shields, and Israel warns them to leave—and they stay? Again, that is on them. Period.

5. God’s Avenger is not a pacifist

Romans 13 makes it painfully clear:

“For he is God’s servant, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer” (Romans 13:4).

The “he” in this verse refers to governments. They bear the sword for a reason. And Christians who think we’re called to be passive while genocidal evil advances have not read their Bibles. Or they’ve ignored what they found. Or they’re antisemites themselves. Or all of the above.

That’s why we earlier wrote the article God’s Avenger—to remind the Church that justice is not optional. Mercy without truth is not love—it’s complicity.

We weep for every soul lost in war. But we never apologize for the sword when evil refuses to lay down its own. Fire may be the only mercy left. Let Israel finish this fight, and trust God at His Word.