Gaza again - sometimes the sheer reality hits you

Seeing the news, the latest bomb blasts of rather strange targets (which "will be explained later" by the men in black suits sitting safely in offices far far from the horror of it all) and this little child, perhaps a year or so older than my own grandson, his face distorted by the sheer shock of the shells and the destruction they had caused. He stared into the camera then gesticulated to where the full horror of what he had witnessed still remained - friends blown to bits? A home in ruins? But the camera didn't follow; and Just the image of his face remains. Another world yet still our world.

Really, what can anyone say?

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RageAgainstTheMachine · 41-45, M

There are no winners in a 3,000 year war over territory. It is abhorrent what these victims of war experienced.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@RageAgainstTheMachine Except 1948 is not 3000 years ago. And those that like to pretend it is thousands of years old are almost always those who don't want to see an end to the slaughter.

It was the same with those who liked to pretend the Troubles in Ireland were a continuous line from 1916 or even as far back as the 1600s in some contexts.