In a war like that, it's not about who are the bad guys anymore, it's about innocent people dying every hour. People in other countries cannot understand that, seeing it all through the filter of controlled TV images, political speeches, rationalization etc

We, Lebanese, know a bit cause we've  been through the same kind of experience two years ago, and nothing is more horrible, physically and psychologically devastating that having Planes, helicopters, tanks, attacking u day and night relentlessly. Tons of lead, cluster bombs, billions of dollars worth of weapons, the most advanced engineering, all that  to the sole service of destroying….you!

There is no shelter to protect you from those bombs, and from the constant sound of planes, drones and bomb impacts around you, all you can do is pray that this one is not for you, especially that as we see, everything is a target: houses, schools, hospitals, roads etc. This sentiment of fear and extreme insecurity is the worse experience one can do. No control whatsoever of your fate. Add to that all humanitarian catastrophes as described by the UN people and the journalists there, the lack of water, no electricity, no medical care, lack of medicine… No human should live that in our age! But it keeps on repeating, and the doers seem to get away with it all the time, thanks to the silence of most of the powers.

I always say it's horrible how we are governed by our feelings, cause feelings can be easily manipulated. Public opinion is a huge force that makes wars start and stop, but by the time the major nations public opinions who while the horror happens are comfortably sitting in their chair (and I'm not blaming them) start to realize that this thing is going nowhere and react to it, hundreds of people are dying everyday…. For nothing.

Eventually, the war will stop at some point, Hatred between Israelis and Palestinians will be greater, which in term will lead to more extremism, and more violence. Political statu quo will prevail; people will come back to their occupations. Maybe even at some point the same politicians in the two clans who are responsible for those wars will be sitting on the same table, talking about peace while having lunch (everything happens around food here)  but those who died won't be here to see it, and they just died for nothing, and that's the absurdity we leave in.

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