Beyond comprehension

The fear and desperation of a fleeing civilian population is etched on all their faces. Where to run to, where is my family, the stories told first hand of their mothers, fathers brothers and sisters killed in front of their eyes, why was this world of the grown up, their personal security, blown up in front of them, where had their reality gone.
I have just been watching film footage made in the streets of a Palestinian town showing the desperation of people fleeing from the areas of Israeli shelling. Running, screaming, limping some dying in the street in front of the camera lens. The film was meant to show the terror inflicted on the civilian population, the emphasis being that innocent civilians are no match for an army pumping fire power into their midst.
Of course the Israeli response is that in the middle of all these civilians is the enemy of Israel, Hamas. The tunnels that Hamas have built to launch attacks on the civilian population of Israel, the rocket launching pads pumping missiles into the suburban areas of Israel are sited within the areas that Israel is pommelling with shells and rockets.A tragedy of epic proportions made more by the fact that we, secure within our home, watch the fear and panic, mesmerised by a drama which we can not comprehend but keep watching as we would a ghoul show. This, as in all conflicts is a power game played out irrespective of the common man and women who are the real casualties. The conflict is a decision made by either fanatics or people who are used to power and the separation that power brings, there is little or no consideration of the people at the end of travel of the shell or rocket its simply a technological opportunity to kill the opposition who became 'the opposition' through the travails of history and storytelling.   .                     

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