The longest military occupation of the post WW2 era is in many ways a war on children for it's children that bear the devastating brunt of Israel's recalcitrant and violent landgrab - no matter what the
spin de jour is. But hey, they couldn't pull it off without our money, weapons, and tacit support.
Three Palestinian children were killed Tuesday during a failed assassination attempt by the Israel Air Force in Gaza. Two of the children, aged five and six, were brother and sister; the third was a 16-year-old boy.
-Haaretz
The longest military occupation of the post WW2 era is in many ways a war on children for it's children that bear the devastating brunt of Israel's recalcitrant and violent landgrab - no matter what the spin de jour is. But hey, they couldn't pull it off without our money, weapons, and tacit support.
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Thats so sad :(. War is such a evil thing :|
It is evil, yet we are a warlike species so it isn't going to go away any time soon.
This becomes especially true when what is currently the most powerful nation on earth is run by people that are essentially criminals.
Only when power is in the hands of people that are moral and public serving (instead of self serving) will we see this change.
That or when some other country becomes the #1 superpower and decides to take us down a peg or 3.
Well Matt, most research seems to point to the conclusion that we have the propensity for great evil and great good. Nothing seems however to show that man has a propensity to chose evil over good, ie to be a warlike species. But certainly there are bad folks who don't mind getting folks to kill others for their personal gain. And sometimes we are looking at systems that reward such bad behavior.
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