Here is a sad truth: the killing will stop only when both sides want it to stop more than they want to be right.

Here is another sad truth: when we fall all over ourselves to signal our virtue by denouncing terrorists and declaring our unwavering support for Israel, we are not helping.

P.S. since you expressed concern for the children killed by Hamas, you might be interested to know that the civilian death toll on the Palestinian side is already greater than on the Israeli side, and will only grow larger in the days and weeks to come.

It shouldn’t be about keeping score, of course. I just bring it up because I keep seeing headlines and stories that use the Israeli death toll to “prove” how savage the Palestinians are, while only mentioning the Palestinian death toll in passing and without the suggestion that we should draw any inferences about the Israelis. The media bias in this country is insane.