black and white and shades of gray
“Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”
The Baby Boomer college student who militantly rejected classical Western ideals and principles during the 1960's did at least have the opportunity to receive a classical education so that he could neutrally encounter what he eventually decided to reject. That same group has offered no such opportunity to their own children. The modern college student is not given the chance to authentically encounter the Western ideal. The version of the West to which he is first introduced is a caricature; it is a scathing editorial about the West written by parties who despise it. And so many of these young people are cut off from the best of what history and human accomplishment has to offer. In its place they are given hollow, cynical speculations invented five minutes ago, which have never been used to build a single civilization, but which are working quite efficiently to tear one down.
#Israel #Hamas #war #human shields #Israel has a right to defend itself
What do you do in a situation in which a certain party is willing to sacrifice their own children for the sake of an ideology? What do you do if they are willing to target your children at the expense of their own? Do you forgo the defense of your own children so that your opponents will not place theirs in the line of fire? Let Hamas agree to engage the Israeli military directly without the involvement of civilians and let us see how things proceed.
The more certain parties exclusively blame Israel for these tragic deaths among civilians, the more Hamas will believe its strategy is working and the more of it we will see. It is unreasonable to require a nation not to defend itself.