Intollerable cruelty
Please read Cal Perry’s powerful article on CNN right now - Four children and the cost of war - Jul 23, 2006
Standing in front of this 8-year-old boy lying in a hospital bed, the “conflict in the Middle East” and the “cost of war” seem endless and suffocating. His pain cannot possibly be imagined as he shakes uncontrollably in and out of shock. He has blood coming from his eyes.
His name is Mahmood Monsoor and he is horribly burned. In the hospital bed next to him is his 8-month-old sister, Maria — also burned. Screaming at the top of her lungs is the children’s mother, Nuhader Monsoor. She is standing over her baby, looking at her son — and probably thinking of her dead husband. The smell of burned flesh is overwhelming.
Israel should be held accountable for this frenzied, kill and destroy as much as possible before the US reigns us in approach. It reduces them to the level of their terrorist enemy, who also kill children indiscriminantly.
A pox on both. There is no one to support in this fight, other than the innocents.
Israel has lost my sympathy and support.
July 30th, 2006
you are undeniably ignorant and wrong. you are a victim of being persuaded by illegitamite reports such as these. i am sorry for you.
July 30th, 2006
I’m not certain I am any more or less ignorant of the situation on the ground in Lebanon than anyone else outside the country. I have listened to many people who have been there speak about the situation. Their first-hand observations bear out the essence of this report, which is that the Isreali bombardment of Lebanon is killing hundreds of univolved (hundreds) civilians and maiming thousands of others. Among them are children such as those described in this report.
Do you have information to the contrary?
Lastly, I have no need or interest in your sympathy, so keep it for those who need it, such as the victims of war.