QANA, Lebanon - An Israeli airstrike killed at least 56 people — many of them children — in a southern Lebanese village Sunday, the deadliest attack in 19 days of fighting.
The missiles destroyed several homes in the village of Qana as people were sleeping. Rescue officials said at least 56 people were killed, and the bodies of 27 children were found in the rubble.
27 dead children. The death of the innocents.
I'm not interested in the blame game here. Innocents were killed by Israeli bombs, but Hezbollah made those innocents targets by launching missiles from very near them (perhaps as little as 20 yards away).
What this tragedy shows is why we must support a ceasefire as soon as we can get one- and not demand that the Middle East be remade somehow in order to get one. Sec. of State Rice's talking points are not bad ones (see earlier post here), but she, and her boss, must not continue to insist upon those as preconditions for a ceasefire.
For the sake of the children.
GP
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