The Relevance of King Solomon’s Judgement On the Hamas Held Hostages
Peloni
King Solomon judges two harlots who claim the same child. By Binyamin – Facsimile Editions, Public Domain
My instinctive response to the insightful question raised by Dianne Bederman in her essay, “What would King Solomon do [notably in regards to the dilemma of the hostages held and tortured by Hamas]”, is to recall that, while making his judgement over the fate of the child claimed as the son of two women, Solomon was dealing with a simple dispute between two parties, each of whom were his own subjects, and neither of whom represented an existential threat to his reign nor to the whole of his people. Indeed, judicial decrees which seem reasonable and relevant in the context of civil disputes, or even those of a criminal nature, should not be understood to be well disposed towards being applied to international affairs involving existential threats to both a single nation nor to civilization itself, as is objectively and honestly the reality being considered as to how best to deal with the threat extending from Hamas towards Israel and Western Civilization. In fact, Solomon’s decision was based on the grasp of human psychology in determining the single truth of which woman was the child’s mother, the solution of which would not affect anyone beyond the relevant parties and the child in question.
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