“My son is an American before Palestinian,” his grieving father said as he grappled with the U.S. government’s role in the violence in Gaza and the West Bank. “Americans, us, our government backs it up.”
I can’t imagine the pain and bottomless hatred I’d have if my son was killed in a war, but the name thing keeps me from wanting him to travel anywhere that might be a war zone.
Well, anymore than random places in the US already is…
West Bank isn’t even a war zone. This appears to have been just a regular incident of a settler deciding to murder a Palestinian and the IDF helping out.
I can’t imagine the pain and bottomless hatred I’d have if my son was killed in a war, but the name thing keeps me from wanting him to travel anywhere that might be a war zone.
Well, anymore than random places in the US already is…
West Bank isn’t even a war zone. This appears to have been just a regular incident of a settler deciding to murder a Palestinian and the IDF helping out.
Now I understand why home schooling is so popular in the USA.