Hamas starts a series of terror attacks on Israel, and after a few days of warnings with no retreat by Hamas, Israel strikes back with greater force than terror.  The state sponsored terror inflicted by Israel upon Gaza does not gain any political ends and certainly does not create a next generation for peace. 

While I am Jewish and believe in the sanctity of the State of Israel, I do not believe any state has the right to kill civilians for any reason.  Collateral damage, death penalty, alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction, or to seize control over governments of another territory. 

Peace is a virtue.  Turning the other cheek is a much better biblical motto to live by than an eye for an eye.  In this case, as with America over the years of the Bush administration, we have moved that motto to a greater retribution than even the unsightly eye for an eye. 

Now there are deaths of women and children whose families will remember what Israel did to disrupt their family existence for another two or three generations unless the state stops and says no more fighting. 

I will continue to rail against retaliatory strikes as the State must rise above the mentality that striking harder creates new safety.  Never has and never will. 

I will write about the ravages of war and the gains of peace til the day I die.  It is my passion, though I know I have lost friends by not supporting the American wars in which we are engaged, and I have lost the zeal for peace until this past weekend, when I realized that we must speak out, whether read or unread, whether heard or unheard, we must continue to speak out and say NO MORE.  I have a dream that man will not lift sword against man and Nations shall not learn war no more.  Unfortunately thousands of years of evolution and that is still a dream, not even close to a reality.  How is it possible?