Friday, May 23, 2025

First World Problems

 The New Yorker has just published a long article on the Israeli embassy staff members senselessly murdered on the streets of D.C. The subheading to the article is:

Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky were killed without regard for who they were, or what they believed.


The same can be said of the anonymous 10 year old boy who went out to get bread for his family in Gaza, and died because of an Israeli bomb. Except we don’t know his name, or what he believed. And we probably never will.

War is hell. Collateral damage. So many died. Murder is different.

Round up the usual excuses.

2 comments:

  1. I can't think of a more obvious instance of living by the sword and dying by it. That's not to excuse the killings of the two Israeli government officials. It's clear a 10-year-old boy who was murdered by the Israeli government is not the same kind of case, more of cold blooded murder.

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  2. The shooter cared that he shot someone. The IDF didn’t care who they killed. I can’t slip a piece of paper between them.

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