רשומהA message for the new War

I am now in Hungary on a family vacation. I watch CNN on our hotel room TV and there in an internet cafe below. I see that the summer is here and war is coming with it. I see that again, civilians are getting hurt and killed.

In my minds eyes I see myself standing in front of the ministry of security in Tel Aviv with a sign and a message writing on it. But what message should be written on the sign?

The message should be a call to action or a call to stop an action. Not a blaming message. Blames will only help the blamers to feel good with themselves being better than the ones they are protesting against.

The message should be moral and not political. Now is not the right time to take advantage of the situation for a political struggle. The problem now is a general moral problem and not a result of and action of one specific person acted from political reasons.

The message should by symetrical. Morality and imorallity are universal and do not change with the side of the border you are from.

I am coming back to my old message Death Does Not Justify Death. But this message is not specific enough.

To this message I want to add "stop hurting civilians as part of military actions".

Then, and probably now, people will write me and say "why don't you stand in Beiruth with this sign?"

I live in Israel. I am an Israeli citizen. I can come with demands only to my the government of Israel and not to its enemies.

Israel is the strongest military power in the Middle East. We should demand from the Prime Minister and from the Minister of Security and from the Chief of Staff to guide the forces not to take lightly the possibility of hurting civilians "because we are now in war". Not to mentally use the phrase "if you want to make omlettes, you have to break the eggs."

Even in a state war, we must demand from them to not hurt civilians and even not take some military actions because of the risk that civilians might get hurt.

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I hope that when we are back on Monday, there will be no need for me to stand on the street with this message.


פורסם ב 14 ביולי 2006 11:04 במדור שלום תגובות נעולות

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