Yesterday morning, we awoke to the news that the Palestinian resistance, Hamas, had sent rockets into Israel, and had also attacked on foot and via air balloons. They targeted a music festival, broke into homes and kidnapped innocent civilians including women and children. There are reports of rapes and beheadings including of children, and the Jewish world is in mourning.
Even locally, hate crimes against our Jewish population are always at the top of those reports and during times like this, it only further escalates this hatred even though Jews are the recipients of Hamas’ inhumane massacre.
As someone of Jewish descent, my wife has struggled with the debate of the Middle East as she continues to learn the complex history of this region. At this moment however, regardless of the rights and wrongs of the past on either side, I find it easy to choose between innocence and evil.
With all of the conflicts we have witnessed in our lifetime, never before have we been able to see the horror that social media brings to our hand-held devices. People running for their lives. Others shot point blank. Blood scattered bedrooms. Babies being pulled from the rubble. Screams. The cry of a parent holding their limp child. Much of the footage, a badge of honor from the Hamas militants.
I took a break from the horror to do some cleaning, and shopping for groceries. I made breakfast for dinner and we had cake and presents for Tara to make up for her missing the big day yesterday.
It was a bit of a somber celebration with her feeling better physically, but her mind now full of news binging while she was bed-ridden.
I’m thinking of all of the innocent lives stuck in the middle of this never-ending conflict.
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