Comments on The Pensive Quill: Dead Children of Toulouse

Someone should try telling that to African warlord...

2012-04-19T19:06:53.088+01:00

Someone should try telling that to African warlords...

"AM said...
Marty,

the article was specifically about the rights of children in conflict situations."

In the 26 county state we have a minister of justi...

2012-04-18T18:20:32.675+01:00

In the 26 county state we have a minister of justice who loudly with stridency and with no hesitation gives his support to the Israeli onslaught on Gaza in 2008-2009- operation Cast lead.

352 children were murdered when ton upon ton of explosive was dropped on one of the most densely populated land areas in the world.

Is Alan Shatter a different shade of Andres Brevik?

Marty, the article was specifically about the ri...

2012-04-18T13:42:01.071+01:00

Marty,

the article was specifically about the rights of children in conflict situations. They are, as has been said, the only true innocents. The piece could have focused on the death of the Rabbi father of two of the children as well but did not. His killing also was without justification. As for the dead soldiers, that takes the debate onto a different plane: one that is about war rights and the loss by military personnel of certain civilian rights. I didn't take a position in the piece in relation to the deaths of the soldiers because military deaths were not what I wanted to invite reflection on at that point. That does not invalidate your question but it is a question that it was not my intention to explore in that article.

Am I wrong here but did that nut who killed the j...

2012-04-18T11:13:01.014+01:00

Am I wrong here but did that nut who killed the jewish kids,not also kill the north African soldiers, so why all the emphasis on the deaths of the jewish kids ,are all lives not equal and should all their deaths be condemned in equal terms,