Matthew Rothschild of The Progressive puts into words what I feel:
Today, I feel outrage.
Today, I feel shame.
Outrage, because how else can any human being with a conscience feel after what Israel just did in Qana, Lebanon, killing 56 people, including 34 children?
Did you see the pictures?
Did you read the accounts?
Enough to turn anyone’s stomach and to pierce anyone’s heart.
This was a war crime, as Human Rights Watch has noted.
So today I feel outrage.
Today, I feel shame.
And shame, first, as a Jew that a nation of Jews would inflict such horrors, Jews, who are taught to value justice above all.
We survived for 5,700 years so we could do this?
And shame, second, as an American citizen, that our government supplies the weapons that killed the innocent in Qana.
Shame that our government is correctly seen as an accomplice in Israel’s war crimes.
Shame that our government inexcusably failed to insist on an immediate cease-fire long before the Israeli bombs fell on Qana.
Today, I feel outrage.
Today, I feel shame.
Photo credit: Smoke rises from a toppled high rise apartment building in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, July 31, 2006 (The Chosun Ilbo & Digital Chosun Ilbo)
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