I Won’t Demonstrate for Israel or Palestine
I can’t because it’s not that simple
Dead children are why.
A dead child represents the death of hope, and there is no hope in this terror turned war. And no matter whose casualty counts we use, there are a lot of dead children on both sides.
I can’t take the side of anyone killing children or using the phrase ‘collateral damage’. Or the excuse of genocide: ‘we must kill them all’.
No, you must not.
I have friends who have had a falling out over the definition of genocide. This word has become a charged signal, on both sides, though its definition is clear:
“the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.
“a campaign of genocide””
~ The Oxford English Dictionary
Other definitions go further by stating that genocide is a defining policy of a particular group against another. Hamas’ stated goal is the death of all Jews, a statement they have repeated many times since the October Seventh terror attacks that brutally murdered 1200 Israelis, mostly civilians, in just one day of a killing rage.
