Russia vs Ukraine, Israel vs Hamas, and America and Iranians tangling too?

In the headline for my column today, I mentioned two wars and what could turn into something nasty--directly involving the United States.

- Thera Martin

Up until a few days ago, President Biden looked like he was simply trying to assist allies with funds, weapons, and other supplies, referring to the President standing with Ukraine and the President standing with Israel. Then along came this attack a couple of days ago, at the hands of the Iranians, against American Soldiers stationed in the Middle East.

Despite agreeing to a ceasefire with Hamas just a few months ago, when Hamas struck Israel in October, it was on, and it's been on since then, sad to say.

The conflict between Israel and some of the people of Palestinian heritage has been fighting against each other since Biblical times. Let’s just go there. This isn’t new. It’s old, and it’s tired, and if I had my way, along with a lot of other women, mothers, grandmothers, aunties, and Godmothers, if we had our way, I bet there would be no wars at all, anywhere, around the world. If women were in charge everywhere.

But men. Oh, men will be boys, and some of them, unfortunately, love war. They thrive on war. They want land, power, and the ability to Lord over what they see as weaker people. It’s a crying shame.

This column that I’m sharing now has been on a slow boil in my gut and my heart since the world was alerted that fighting had started again between Israel and Hamas. When you look at the news and watch a Jewish woman in her 80s being forced onto the back of a motorcycle of a Hamas soldier and kidnapped, when you see the news stories about Israeli babies and toddlers who were beheaded, allegedly at the hands of Hamas and their mothers raped and then murdered, or kidnapped, it doesn’t matter to me that I don’t know these people. It doesn’t matter to me that they are Jewish.