Happy New Year!
We started out the New Year learning that Israel was bombing the Palestinian territory of Gaza, where unemployment is fifty percent, blockades have made food and supplies in short supply for months, and people live in crowded homes often without sewers and other necessities of life. After the bombing, Israel began a ground invasion. They claim they are hunting for the leaders and weapons of Hamas, to make Israelis safe.
So why have they killed over 100 children?
This is war. This is always war. No matter how a country may justify it, no matter how intellectuals around the world may say it is appropriate, no matter how the warring parties try to avoid civilian casualties, there are always children who pay the ultimate price, children who never have the chance to grow up.
In the small territory of Gaza, there is a record of how many children have been killed. How many children have we killed in the much larger countries of Iraq and Afghanistan? It could be in the tens of thousands but we will never know. We don't keep track.
