Bombing the Shit out of Them

[vague_fantasies]

The following is from this past summer which I accidentally deleted while editing this blog.

It is not that "anti-Israeli's" (a homogenizing label if there ever were one) cannot or do not feel empathy for Israel's civilian population, or that their suffering does not tempt us to stop and think about what we believe and hold to be true.

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[prettyobserver]

"But not only Israeli's have lives: those fleeing and those dying in Lebanon also had families and jobs and mundane existences which we never seem to hear about. Why? Can anyone answer that question without being rhetorical? I certainly can't."

Neither can I. So many good points and many excellent questions.

Personally, I wish I had more answers. I doubt it (conflict, war, occupation, grave injustice) will become real until "we" are thrust into it, burning and screaming and bloodied, just like "them".

*Please write more! :)