Barbarism squared.

• Jurisdiction: United States
• Author: Rothschild, Matthew
• Date: 01 May 2002

Despair.

There is no other word I can find to describe my reaction to the violence that exploded in Israel and Palestine at the end of March.

Just as it seemed that finally there was a flicker of hope with the Saudi peace plan, a Palestinian suicide bomber destroyed a Passover celebration in Netanya, killing at least twenty-six Jews and wounding 100 others. When I turned on CNN and saw the carnage, I was almost physically ill. Suicide bombings are utterly unjustifiable. The intentional killing of innocent people, and the rejoicing over such killing, should offend every moral conscience. It certainly does mine.

Then Ariel Sharon responded in his own barbaric fashion. The Israeli invasion, with its brazen brutality, took its ghastly...