Emphasis Preaching Journal

During the Palestinian uprising in the late 1980s, a village near Bethlehem was punished for not paying its taxes to the Israeli government. All the animals of the village were confiscated and placed in a large barbed-wire pen and guarded by the Israeli army. During the week a woman approached the commander and asked that he release her flock because her husband was dead and the animals were her only source of income. The officer pointed to the pen where hundreds of animals were incarcerated and quipped that it was impossible to find her specific herd.