It is unforgivable when militants on either side target children and innocent civilians in their hateful quests, but I’m certain that if the children killed were Israeli our TVs and radios would have been flooded with grieving friends and families. And, if the culprits were destitute Palestinians in desert rags instead of Israeli soldiers in uniforms riding in tanks and helicopters, our announcers and commentators would still be collectively swaying to the mantra of "terrorist, terrorist."

No matter with which side you sympathize, imagine if it were your 7-year old son who was purposefully lured into a tank’s gun-sights and then intentionally obliterated. There should be a deafening outcry in our country over the barbaric practices of a military out of control, especially when so much of their evil is wrought to protect transplanted Americans who have abandoned this nation to illegally appropriate the ancestral lands of a hopelessly outgunned people.