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So, we are supposed to believe that this society was "targeted"? As in "deliberately"?

I think BC is on the right track. If I choose to live among the enemies of freedom, I shouldn't be surprised that I might be destroyed when the friends of freedom respond to threats.

And my response is... so what? Lots of buildings have been hit. Is this an attempt to move Christian sympathy for Hamas?

Steady guys...the comment that "the source of the missile is also unknown" shows the evenhandedness and integrity which characterizes the PBS.

I grieve at this, but the Israelis did not murder the shop manager and force the shop to close - radical Muslims did. Hamas is responsible for this destruction. The Bible Society buildings in Israel, including Jerusalem, are open and freely operate.

The Palestinians that know Jesus are brothers and sisters in Christ. How can we be so calloused to criticize them for staying in their country and seeking to get God's word to their people. Many outside of this country consider our government an enemy of freedom too. I believe God is calling his children to place national identity in a distant second to unity around the message of his Son Jesus. The Kingdoms of the World are at war, but Jesus said, "my kingdom is not of this world." Which Kingdom are we swearing allegiance too?

I thought Hamas was using rockets and PBC is saying "missile". Of course the "missile" can't be identified since it's probably in pieces but by saying so, it doesn't bring down Hamas on the PBC. It's a coverup by non-Muslims living in a Muslim country, a way of "living" with the enemy. This is why Christianity isn't winning in Muslim countries. Outside-of-the- country-Christians ought to be broadcasting what the Muslims are doing with non-Muslims instead of covering it up, broadcast it out loud until the Muslims have to sneakingly stop it in such a way that they don't admit they're doing it (that's how Muslims work, the opposite thinking of Westerners). Secretcy and placating will never free non-Muslims in these countries. It just continues the abuse. That's all that is really going on here. A Christian organization existing in a Muslim country with no help from out-of-the-country Christians.

Posts like the one by Burgess Laughin are sickening and the product of the same spirit that led the disciples in Luke 9:52-56 (read Jesus' rebuke).
I am not on the side of the Palestinian versus Israel and I condemn the terrorist acts that the majority there seems to support. However, I do not believe that "Israel can't do no wrong" and that their otherwise justified response to terrorist cannot be disproportionate and even reckless.
It is one thing to target militants, it is another think to have “acceptable” collateral damage that involves an entire family of twelve including children (I believed it happened last week).
However, going back to the article, we do not know who fired the missile, it could be Palestinians. What is certain is that the t targeting of civilians and missionary organization is wrong and reckless at best whether it is by Israeli or by Palestinian
We Christians are children of peace, and the death of innocents (and even of terrorists) is always a tragedy of eternal consequences in many cases. How callous to blame the victims because they ministered in "enemy territory".
I guess this would also apply to Christian is most persecuted countries throughout the ages—ah! the benefits of Church history

Wow, James, ya, we Christians love to stand up for Israel as they kill and maim and traumatize women and children who are owned by the very men who voted in Hamas, the real killers of the very people who voted them in. Somehow history has forgotten that Gaza was Christian, not Jewish ever, until the Muslims attacked viciously and took over that area. Perhaps that is the real reason the Jews don't fight to get Gaza back because it was Samaritan first, than Christian and than Muslim, never Jewish land. The Jews just want to stop the daily attacks upon their own people and its own land, you know the land God gave Abraham NOT Mohammed, Islam's real god. Allah is not Islam's God's name, Allah is a mixed together of various pagan god's names to ease the transfer of pagan worshippers to Islam. Mohammed was good at tricking people into believing in the religion he made up just like HAMAS is good at making it look like their enemies are the real murderers of woman and children not HAMAS who started the daily rockets and their continued take over of land from which to go after Israel, not to make life better for those living in the lands HAMAS occupies. Or, maybe getting to all those virgins is HAMAS' real aim.

I have been thinking about how I as a Christian should pray for the people in a situation of terrible conflict like that in Gaza. Then I recalled Paul's words in 1 Timothy 2 where Christians are exhorted to pray for those in authority so that they "may live quiet and peaceful lives in all godliness and holiness." The real solution to the conflict is only God's solution through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ - a solution that both the residents of Gaza and Israel need to discover. It is tragic when peace loving people like Rammi Ayyad, who want to make this solution know, are murdered.

James, Your what happens when dumb liberals think they understand Christanity.

God loves every person who commented on this story, but for me it's hard to see how we could miss the point that people are doing everything they can to serve Jesus in a difficult and dangerous place, and there are critical and calloused responses here. I would tend to agree with the heart of Jonathan above who recognized that not blaming Israel was an act of generosity and graciousness, which characterize the Palestinian Bible Society and the people who work there, whom I admire for showing love not just through their actions, but through their words.