For the sake of the children

[oberliner]

There are 22 children in our son’s kindergarten, yet these days, when everyone has the flu, barely 17 kids make it on a good day – this is exactly the number of children killed in Gaza on one day last week; we can say that a whole Gaza kindergarten had been wiped out that day.

Ever since the operation started, you cannot help but hear dozens of military and political tips regarding the way the war should be managed. Should we focus on air assaults or embark on a ground incursion, should we topple Hamas or merely exhaust it? Yet within this sea of commentary and strategy, we too want to say something.

This has nothing to do with military tactics, or with the question of using Egyptian mediators in order to secure a lull agreement. This is just one simple advice from two citizens to the prime minister they did not even vote for: When you write down the various diplomatic and military options available to you, cross out those that pose a risk of wiping out kindergartens. That’s it.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3654751,00.html

[newtothegame]

1. Unfortuneatly, the leaders of both sides could give two shi** about their collateral damage...

Israel doesn't care now who they hit in Gaza, and Hamas didn't care who of their own people would pay the price for firing their rockets into Israel.

[ensho]

2. kick

nt

[LeftishBrit]

3. Good article - thanks for posting it.