Are We That Civilized?
If outrage, grief, and concern were the civilized world’s reaction to the killing of 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023, total indifference by the same types seems to be the response to the death of more than 41,000 Gazans, most of them women and children. Here in New York the headline is one and the same, “Israel Under Attack,” never mind the bodies of innocents piling up both in Gaza and now Lebanon.
I know, I know, Hamas started it and Hezbollah deserves it, but we are supposedly civilized people who don’t gloat while innocents are slaughtered. Well, are we that civilized? Back in the ’60s we dropped more bombs on Vietnam than we did on Germany in the ’40s, including Agent Orange, and in Iraq we killed close to half a million Iraqis before “mission accomplished” was
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