The silence that exposes the world: When evil speaks and no one listens

It has been almost a week since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect on October 13, 2025, the agreement brokered after two years of war meant to silence guns and begin the return of the living and the dead.

Praise God, all of the Israeli hostages who survived captivity are now in Israel and some are back in their homes! Several of the remains of the slain have been returned, though many families still wait in anguish for the bodies of their loved ones.

But the “peace” was short-lived. Within days, Hamas fighters began executing Palestinian civilians in public squares in Gaza — an atrocity verified by independent media investigations and published in several videos. Then came this morning’s attack on Israeli patrols near Rafah, killing two soldiers and wounding others in what Hamas cynically called “an accident”.

Where are the humanitarian voices now?

During the height of the conflict, the world’s streets overflowed with slogans about justice, famine, and genocide. But as Hamas murders its own people and covers its crimes with propaganda, there is only silence. The same international community that once demanded ceasefires and accountability now looks away.

The moral outrage evaporates the moment Israel stops defending itself. This selective compassion exposes that much of the world’s concern was never truly for the Palestinian people, only against the Jewish state. Hatred, not human rights, has been the driving force behind so much of the world’s chorus.

Even today, after public executions, after the murder of IDF soldiers under truce, headlines still frame Israel as the aggressor. Hamas openly defies the U.S.-brokered terms, refuses to disarm, and parades armed men through Gaza’s streets. Yet global institutions hesitate to name them for what they are: terrorists ruling through death.

The truth has been inverted; just as the Isaiah 5:20 clearly stated that it would. Those defending life are condemned, and those dealing death are excused. This is the ultimate test of modern conscience, whether we will call evil by its name.

The prophet Isaiah’s warning echoes through our age: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness” (Isaiah 5:20).

The world’s moral compass has become magnetized by ideology instead of truth. Reason and common sense, even empathy, have been sacrificed to narratives that blame Israel reflexively, regardless of the evidence.

When innocent civilian blood is spilled, Israeli or Palestinian, the tragedy is real. But when terror itself is excused as “resistance,” humanity loses its way. This confusion is not political; it is spiritual. It reveals a world estranged from truth, unable to distinguish justice from hatred, compassion from complicity.

Israel’s war was never against the people of Gaza but against those who use children as shields and lies as weapons. The tragedy of Gaza does not justify erasing Israel’s right to exist. It demands a global repentance: a return to truth, accountability, and moral consistency.