Gaza Nights

This evening in Jerusalem someone entered a Jewish religious school and shot dead a number of students. The Guardian declared of the seven deaths: "The attack represents a dramatic escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."

Huh? Did these authors forget the 112 Palestinians that have been killed since Israel re-invaded the Gaza Strip over the past number of days? Surely the escalation was the killing of 112 human lives, including dozens of children, there. In contrast to the whole, seven deaths seems pretty inconsequential.

But really it isn't.

You see Palestinian lives are worth less than Israeli lives. For every one Israeli killed 10 Palestinians must be killed for justice to be had. We all accept this fact every day, not just Israelis and Palestinians but Canadians and Chinese. Over the past week since the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) invaded Gaza we are witnessing this miserable statistic in practice. Approximately 10 Israeli soldiers and civilians have been killed to 112 Palestinians, some soldiers, many children.

Unfortunately the calls for revenge (the religious school trains many of the fanatical settlers occupying the West Bank) mean that the death toll will continue to rise. Since seven died today, the IDF will liquidate at least 70 Palestinians; this is justice. Then the Palestinians will try and kill 10% of the total assassinated. Eventually they'll give up and take a breath but the 10-1 rule will never change.

Violence only flows down the hierarchy of the races. Never forget that.