Jews have just celebrated their New Year - 5767.
Gideon Levy, veteran columnist with Haaretz, and severe critic of Israels' actions in Gaza and the West Bank, reflects on the year just passed:
"It was a pretty quiet year, relatively speaking. Only 457 Palestinians and 10 Israelis were killed, according to the B'Tselem human rights organization, including the victims of Qassam rockets. Fewer casualties than in many previous years. However, it was still a terrible year: 92 Palestinian children were killed (fortunately, not a single Israeli child was killed by Palestinians, despite the Qassams). One-fifth of the Palestinians killed were children and teens - a disproportionate, almost unprecedented number. The Jewish year of 5767. Almost 100 children, who were alive and playing last New Year, didn't survive to see this one."
Read, here, Levy's obviously keenly-felt concern for the children of the ongoing conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians.
Gideon Levy, veteran columnist with Haaretz, and severe critic of Israels' actions in Gaza and the West Bank, reflects on the year just passed:
"It was a pretty quiet year, relatively speaking. Only 457 Palestinians and 10 Israelis were killed, according to the B'Tselem human rights organization, including the victims of Qassam rockets. Fewer casualties than in many previous years. However, it was still a terrible year: 92 Palestinian children were killed (fortunately, not a single Israeli child was killed by Palestinians, despite the Qassams). One-fifth of the Palestinians killed were children and teens - a disproportionate, almost unprecedented number. The Jewish year of 5767. Almost 100 children, who were alive and playing last New Year, didn't survive to see this one."
Read, here, Levy's obviously keenly-felt concern for the children of the ongoing conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians.
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