The Guardian’s view on the killing of children in Gaza | Editorial | Commentisfree | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/31/guardian-view-killing-children-gaza
They didn’t do anything special but just die.
Wars kill people, including teachers in their classrooms, nurses in their hospitals, and farmers in their fields. But when children die in the hail of steel soldiers direct at one another there is a special kind of obscenity. Children have no agency, not even the slightest shred of the responsibility or complicity that adults to one degree or another may possess.
They know nothing of propaganda, they did not cheer in angry rallies, they did not send off their menfolk to fight with a blessing, they did not sit at meetings where the pros and cons of making war were gravely discussed by middle- aged men. No, they just die.
