Family members on Saturday carry the body of six-year-old Palestinian Khalil Walwil in front of an Israeli jeep after he was shot dead in the West Bank city of Nablus. The boy's family said Israeli soldiers shot him in the neck when they opened fire at the family home during a raid on Nablus' Balata refugee camp (REUTERS photo by Abed Omar Qusini)Israeli soldiers killed a six-year-old Palestinian boy when they opened fire at Palestinian activists during a raid in a West Bank refugee camp on Saturday, the Israeli army said.
Jordan Times Mar.28.04 (one week link)
Yes it was a ricochet, not intentional. And certainly there are Israeli soldiers who grieve at things like this even as they continue to do their duty. But it gets justified. They were killing terrorists, and the kid caught a stray bullet. Regrettable, but these things happen.
But that rationalization has no more moral substance than the suicide bombers' or their handlers'. It's the same argument used by terrorists. There is no moral high ground available. Only madness and more killing.
The one inarguable fact is that the Palestinians are being driven from their homes, and have been, steadily, for almost 60 years. The Israelis are not.
What Sharon has commenced, like a suicidal zealot himself, is the detonation of a bomb that will destroy us all.
