You won't here this from msm in America... just another day in the holy land I guess.
Israel kills three Palestinian children in one week
I can see the day when the world says no more.
What is your point? That the world should say "no more"?
How about we say NO MORE to the:
13 killed and 20 injured by suicide bombers in Nigeria
4 killed and 40 injured in a terrorist attack in London
900 (estimated) killed in Syria
1 executed in Syria for "cursing Allah"
10 killed and 15 injured by a car bomb in Somalia
23 killed and 45 injured by a car bomb in Iraq
4 killed (a mother and her children) by a car bomb in Nigeria
2 border guards killed in Pakistan
34 killed while praying at a mosque in Yemen
1 killed and 2 injured by a suicide bomber in Pakistan
1 killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan
a father and a son killed by a family member in France
76 (estimated) women who died in the USA from domestic violence
5, 810 (estimated) women who died from preventable complications from pregnancy and childbirth
57,692 (estimated) infants who died from preventable post-natal complications
19,230 (estimated) suicides
And that was just THIS WEEK.
Look, I get it. Death is tragic. No death is good. Well, unless you are 120 and dying peacefully in your bed after a full day of brunch with your great-grandbabies and tai chi class and a dinner of roast beef and Yorkshire puddings and a nice glass of whiskey (or suitable meal of your choice -- mine would actually be pizza, or French onion soup or even a nice baguette with a good runny cheese and a lovely Pinot Grigio).
But your point, on this thread, as on all the threads you start, is not to demand justice in the world. Indeed, it is to create injustice.
Your premise is that the deaths of these three children somehow speaks to what it means to be an Israeli (read: a Jew). You are creating (trying to) a communal responsibility for the deaths of these children as though being Israeli (being Jewish) is somehow measured in the deaths of these children. Its not. Its not ONLY.
Israel, her soldiers, her people, make hard decisions every day about what to DO with children who throw bombs and molotovs, who raise knives to kill innocents, who ram cars into bus stops. Its not easy. But each of these children's deaths is a reaction to a threat. Its a justified fear, if not always a justified reaction.
And you are not recognizing the complicity of these children in the acts that they do which directly leads to their injuries or deaths. And you are going to say they have a right to resist. Sure they do. Of course they do. They have a right to become combatants. But they then also experience the consequences of their actions.
Look, I don't want a single Palestinian child or adult to die from this day forward in this conflict. But in order for that to happen, there must be peace and that means no more resistance. And thus, no more response. Peace will come when people make peace.
