In Gaza or Majdal Shams: all children deserve our compassion

In Gaza or Majdal Shams: all children deserve our compassion

People who have taken the trouble to proclaim with chilling pride that they have no room in their hearts to feel sorry for the children of Gaza are suddenly displaying their bleeding hearts for the children of the Golan.

In these indescribable days, we continue to discover how many shades of darkness there can be, darkness made even worse by the massacre of the children of Majdal Shams. How many synonyms are there in Hebrew for the word “horror”? What other words in the lexicon have we not yet used?

Everything is plunged into deep darkness and nauseating rot. People who took the trouble to proclaim with chilling pride that they have no room in their hearts to feel sorry for the children of Gaza are suddenly displaying their bleeding hearts for the children of Majdal Shams. Apparently, when the political gain from the blood of children is on the right side, it is easier to be shocked. The same people who concluded on October 7 that the response to the slaughter of civilians, children and women, was an existential need to slaughter civilians, children and women in Gaza, conclude after the terrible carnage of Majdal Shams that we must, indeed, shed the blood of Lebanese civilians, because otherwise, how will they learn? Perhaps this is the definition of the end of civilization? That the lesson of every blood shed is that there is no choice but to shed more?

Perhaps now, when there seems to be no more blood in hearts because of grief and terror, it is worth remembering that children are not supposed to “earn” the empathy of any of us so that their lives are sacred. The same is true for all civilians, wherever they may be. The question of who we have compassion for or not has absolutely nothing to do with the duty of everyone, regardless of their side, to protect the lives of civilians, especially children.

The fact that you have compassion for the children of Majdal Shams, but not for the children of Gaza, is a testament to the rottenness of your dark souls, and has no bearing on the duty to protect the lives of children everywhere under international law, morality and conscience. If your pity and empathy for the slaughtered children depends on the political gain you can make from their blood, you are a rotten people who need a long re-education to return to human society. But the unimaginable carnage of children must stop, wherever they are, and first and foremost in Gaza, where tens of thousands of children have already been exterminated and continue to be slaughtered.

Translation: JB for the , from a first translation into English by Sole Salbe for Meduim

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