There was a time when the sanctity of human life, at least publicly, meant more in our society. We now live in a world different from that of 4 years ago. Though pre-2020 life was perhaps more murky underneath than many of us thought, three years of incessant official lying, institutionalized vilification, population segregation, and publicly sanctioned hate has taken its toll.
Last week, some people with twisted minds unleashed a horror on the people in Israel.
They have unleashed death on innocent people in both Israel and Gaza.
For the Jewish people, who have suffered recurrent pogroms throughout history and the worst of them within living memory, thinking of those dying on the 'other side' will be particularly hard.
My grandmother never got over the way her son was deliberately starved to death by people of another nation, but who would not understand that? Jewish people have had this, over again, generation after generation, living with fear of what has just happened.
To express sorrow for the killing of innocent people is decent.
We accept in war that innocent people will be killed.
The people involved need those more physically detached to help, to understand the difficulty of the situation forced upon those responding and those being hammered, not to cheer on the killing.
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