Discerning world issues - crisis in the middle east

A recent post at SignPosts prompted me to make a similiar post. As Christians, we can not fall simply offer support to wars, and relax in complacency and be ignorant to the world around us. I like the way Jim Rice from Sojourners has put it.

"As Christians committed to the cause of peace, our role is not to "take sides" in the struggle, in the traditional sense, but rather to constantly stand for the "side" of a just and secure peace. We can ignore neither the horror of suicide bombings against Israeli civilians (including direct attacks on school children) nor the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories (with all its "collateral damage" to Palestinian children). We must have the vision and courage to stand against the acts of violence by terrorist organizations, as well as the massive state violence by the region's military superpower, while avoiding the trap of positing a false "equivalency" between actions that are not equal.

We cannot allow ourselves to be paralyzed by the political, strategic, and moral complexity of the situation to stand back and do nothing."

I don't know all the answers, but I do know that our ignorant complacency is unacceptable.