Gestational Grimness

No matter how hard we might try — and I know I often do the same kind of over-simplifying — the conflict with the Palestinians, and now as the conflict has gone on in Lebanon, is not so easy, not so morally clear, for either side. And the longer we spend trying to make it so, then the longer it will continue, because we will have no idea how to make the difficult and real decisions involving the real people on both sides that need to be made in order to solve it for the long term.

As I said above, the only thing in our vision in this cartoon should be that babies are growing up in a warzone, and our only moral response, our only ideology, should be to make it stop.

The more time we focus on the current soldiers and the terrorists, on why they exist, on defending or decrying them, on analyzing every move they do, and not on the babies in those carriages — in both of the carriages — and on building them a real future, then the surer we can be that the babies in those carriages will just grow up to take the places of the soldier and the terrorist.

[via semitism.net]