The story goes on. Read it to remind yourself what war does. My heart goes out to Ghazi and his family, and to all the victims of war. God bless you all.Ghazi Samra, a fisherman, is feeling the new shape of his world. Last month, his wife, one of his daughters and a granddaughter were killed in an Israeli air strike. Since then, his life has shrunk to the size of one crooked city block. He tries to sleep in an apartment that is not his own. He wears his wife’s glasses, more out of a craving for closeness to her than as an aid to see. The shirt and shorts he is wearing are his brother’s. He has not felt able to return to his own apartment.
Basically, I don’t understand war. I have no clue why human beings seem to have a proclivity for it. There are two tribes in Africa that have ritualized the whole thing. They meet once a year at a field and throw spears at each other, killing half of each side. Then, they have peace the rest of the year. Grizzly, yes. Yet they seem to acknowledge their need for war, this perverse craving, and they get on with it, and then on to other things.
As the world stands now, there would be no war if the United States, Israel, Britain, Australia, and certain other nations, would prevail. At this period of time, these countries are not warlike. They fight, but they fight in response. It’s been this way for some time. The aggressors have been Germany et al in WWI and WWII, North Korea in the Korean War, the communists in Vietnam, Iraq in the Gulf War, and Saddam Hussein in the Iraq War. People forget that Saddam had been brutalizing his own people, using chemical weapons on the Kurds, supporting terrorism against Israel, refusing to adhere to U.N. mandates, and shooting at U.S. airplanes. The aggressor in this present Lebanon War was and continues to be Hezbollah. If they’d stop firing on Israeli citizens and give up their plan to annihilate Israel, there’d be no war there.
War is hell. I’m sorry that it exists. I’m sorry that some people have so little regard for life that they will fly planes into towers full of people, strap bombs on themselves and walk into markets crowded with families, or shoot rockets into cities where people are just trying to live their lives in peace.
I’m sorry too, that the response to these kinds of attack must be violent. You just can’t sit down and talk with people who are willing to blow up human beings to make their political points. I am most sorry that these “insurgents” purposely hide among civilians, and even delight in civilian casualties, knowing that this is a PR war as much as a guns and blood battle.
I agree with all the peace advocates, I hate war. Let’s end it by backing the United States, England, Australia and Israel, the good guys who want to end war for all time.
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