‘It doesn’t make sense’
‘War never does’
‘But Batool this isn’t even a war. They’re hunting ghosts’.

Khalil was right. It doesn’t make sense. None of it does. They think they have the license to bomb whichever city they please, whenever they please. Power gives them that license.

He showed me pictures of children with maimed bodies, beautiful faces burnt, and fearful eyes. He was visibly shaken and I couldn’t believe my eyes. But nothing shook me more than a picture of a Israeli girl no more than 10 years old writing on an Israeli missile…’from the children of Israel to Lebanon’.

Is this the generation growing up in Israel?

I have been following Anderson Cooper’s movement through the war torn areas. US government’s laxness in evacuating their people is being questioned constantly. But who is going to pull out the people of Lebanon?

And what is this war truly worth? Hezbollah isn’t exactly hiding in cities and towns being bombed. And who gave Kofi Anan the right to judge them?

And what is wrong with us? Why can’t we defend our homes? The people we love? And whatever happened to common humanity?

And why does ‘power’ continue justifying all kinds of horrendous acts? Israeli’s capture while Hezbollah kidnaps. Israel’s actions are valid...they fear for their lives. They want ‘two’ of their soldiers back. So it’s perfectly logical to kills hundreds of civilians and children. It gives Israel the license to do as it pleases, when it pleases, if it pleases!

I can’t help but fear the world right now.