The more things change......

The more things change, the more they stay the same!

A few Blog entries ago I talked about some Israelites fraternizing with the women of the Midianites.
For this "transgression", according to the Old Testament, the good, all forgiving God ordered Moses to kill the sinners.

Much has changed since those biblical days, but the sameness expressed itself very recently in a group of Israeli soldiers on patrol in the divided city of Hebron who, hearing loud and happy music and party noises coming from a Palestinian club, entered and, in full gear, with rifles slung over their shoulders, commenced to dance with some of the Palestinian women there.
As reported in the "Kurier" of the 30th August 2013 the army prosecutors charged and the army punished the soldiers stating that they unnecessarily placed themselves in danger. The actual punishment was not revealed. I venture to guess, however, that the soldiers' heads were not chopped off.

One can say, that the Israeli Military Court was more "all loving and all forgiving" than the God of the Old Testament.

Bertstravels.