| Submit your comments on this article |
| Israel-Palestine |
| Lost boys of Gaza |
| 2004-10-10 |
| Exactly what can be expected in a society as self-destructive as the Islamofascist Paleos. I wish I were shocked at the "moral equating" of the author. The problem is solely with Islam, and especially how the Paloestinians have perverted their society with joo-hating being the end-all and be-all of their society. They are just reaping a whirlwind of their own making. One side accuses Palestinian gunmen of using children as human shields, a cruelty so callous as to have no equal. And one side accuses Israeli soldiers of trigger-happy indifference, methodically felling the very young with deadeye abandon. But there is a third truth here on the unspeakably mean streets of the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza. It speaks not so much to the sickening concepts of Israelis or Palestinians spending children as if they were mere shekels, but rather to a notion even more horrifying — that the social order here has broken down so completely that the children are simply spending themselves. As of yesterday, there were 18 children among the confirmed toll of 94 Palestinians killed since Sept. 28, when Israel's tanks rolled into northern Gaza in a massive invasion to staunch the flow of rockets flying toward the civilians of Israel proper. Whether by helicopter gunship fire, the missiles of unmanned military drones or the periodic tank shells that pierce the eastern side of this compressed cinderblock city of 106,000, Israel is not only getting its man, it is getting a boy hovering fatally close to the action. |
| Posted by:Brett_the_Quarkian |
| #1 well said, BTQ! |
| Posted by: 2b 2004-10-11 8:55:09 AM |