Wednesday, July 05, 2006

The assault continues

It began with the murder of Palestinian families enjoying a day at the beach.

If you are an Israeli, you would say it began with the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier. If, indeed, soldiers can be kidnapped.

For more than a week Israeli tanks have assaulted Gaza. Deaths and injuries of civilians in exchange for the freedom of one soldier.

Back in the 1980s I heard Ariel Sharon state, roughly, that one Israeli life was worth one hundred (or was it one thousand?) Palestinians. This is the rationale.

I pray for the safety of my Muslim brothers and sisters in Gaza.

And I wonder. Where are the Muslim leaders? Why are they silent?

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