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A Little Child Shall Lead Them
RECEIVED Tue., April 30, 2024
Dear Editor,
In all the commentary about college anti-war protests, we have failed to notice that young people are able to see unjust war, unconscionable violence, and political evil much more clearly than their parents and grandparents can.
Those elders have gone silent in the face of Netanyahu’s astonishingly un-proportional response to Israel’s loss of 1,200 civilians on October 7.
Young people have figured out that 34,000 dead Palestinians is less about antisemitism and more about a larger and more pervasive form of hate. That slow-burning hate comes from the emotional indifference and intellectual lightheadedness of average Americans and their Republican and Democrat leaders. It isn’t helped by the greed of the war industries that fund elections either.
Netanyahu is clearly a malevolent influence in Israel, Gaza, and the entire world, just as the underground leaders of Hamas and their puppet masters in Tehran are. Young people have not lost the tender conscience bequeathed to them by their newness in this life and are courageous enough to separate themselves from their elders who have.
A famous book says, “A little child shall lead them.” That is happening in America today without a doubt.
In all the commentary about college anti-war protests, we have failed to notice that young people are able to see unjust war, unconscionable violence, and political evil much more clearly than their parents and grandparents can.
Those elders have gone silent in the face of Netanyahu’s astonishingly un-proportional response to Israel’s loss of 1,200 civilians on October 7.
Young people have figured out that 34,000 dead Palestinians is less about antisemitism and more about a larger and more pervasive form of hate. That slow-burning hate comes from the emotional indifference and intellectual lightheadedness of average Americans and their Republican and Democrat leaders. It isn’t helped by the greed of the war industries that fund elections either.
Netanyahu is clearly a malevolent influence in Israel, Gaza, and the entire world, just as the underground leaders of Hamas and their puppet masters in Tehran are. Young people have not lost the tender conscience bequeathed to them by their newness in this life and are courageous enough to separate themselves from their elders who have.
A famous book says, “A little child shall lead them.” That is happening in America today without a doubt.
Kimball Shinkoskey