Christmas services are just a few weeks away. Let’s take a new angle, dive into the Bible and preach with hearts spilling over.

The sanction includes the expulsion of the religious leaders and foreign personnel, banning the possibility of re-entering the country.

The proposal has been rejected internationally. “It is not a peace agreement, but just a ‘vision’ or ‘plan’, and that does not mean much to Israel”, a Israeli professor of international relations says.

Compassion should always be our over-riding motivation, and we should always offer people a way out of their situation; otherwise our words are only condemnation.