Zoya Cherkassy-Nnadi:  have you heard of her?  As the war between Gaza and Israel drags on, you may be hearing more about her.  Cherkassy-Nnadi is one of Israel's foremost artists of dissent, creating work upon work that seeks to critique some aspect of Israeli society.

    With the onset of the war, Cherkassy-Nnadi has turned to painting images of the effects of the war, be it Israeli or Gazan.  When once questioned as to why, she, a loyal Israeli and committed Jew, would grant each group rough parity in her artwork, she responded, sarcastically, "I am very, very happy that there are privileged young people from privileged countries that can know how everybody in the world can act."

    Rarely do we find clean divisions in political convictions or religious loyalties.  Furthermore, as Cherkassy-Nnadi implies, those who insist on drawing such black and white pictures of oppression inevitably trip over their baggage of their privileged circumstances and upbringing.  Put another way, they do not always know what they are talking about.

    Or what they are saying really means.  The Israel-Gazan conflict has rocked countless epistemologies and metaphysical viewpoints around the world.  It has caused immense cultural and political upheaval.  Yet as Cherkassy-Nnadi insightfully points out, a good deal of this upheaval has been caused by people who, broadly speaking, rarely know the deeper implications of what they arguing.

    We must all tread very carefully.  Particularly if we claim to know and love God.