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BillZBubb

(10,650 posts)
1. Amazing.
Sun Jul 27, 2014, 01:43 PM
Jul 2014

Strange thing that a "terrorist, sub-human, animal" would seek out books. Meanwhile the chosen ones, the "Western" moral pillars are pounding her home into rubble.

 

ballyhoo

(2,060 posts)
5. Very hard to watch these photos. Look
Sun Jul 27, 2014, 01:53 PM
Jul 2014

at the girl's face. She is not letting horror around her get her down. I would like to meet her and say hello.

bigtree

(85,999 posts)
6. too often we find out later that the children in these iconic photos have perished
Sun Jul 27, 2014, 01:59 PM
Jul 2014

. . . let's hope (against our fears) for a long and productive life for her and all of the rest of the children of Gaza and Israel.

 

ballyhoo

(2,060 posts)
8. That is my hope too, although I have another hope that cannot
Sun Jul 27, 2014, 02:04 PM
Jul 2014

be said here regarding the enemy.

gtar100

(4,192 posts)
7. Imagine your house or apartment in rubble along with your entire neighborhood knowing that it's
Sun Jul 27, 2014, 02:01 PM
Jul 2014

because of politics, land grabs, ideologies, and history. What's tragic is that military action and political actions do not limit their consequences to themselves but inflict their psychotic actions on innocent people, particularly children. Sadly the last people to be affected by political and military actions are the leaders who called for it in the first place.

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