Sparks: Israel continues to commit genocide by targeting children in Gaza, UN inquiry finds | First Thing

Power that seeks security in the blood of the small finds only a swifter road to its own ruin.

Victory achieved through the slaughter of the innocent leaves the victor with a republic of ghosts that no constitution can ever govern.

Every city along this coast preserves the memory of its markets, yet the judges now weigh the weight of small shrouds instead of silk.

Common sense dictates that a government which treats the cradle as a battlefield has resigned its right to be called a civilization.

If we shall suppose that every drop of blood drawn from a child must be paid by another drawn by the sword, we find the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

Ask what the cash-value of this policy is for the living, and you find only a bankrupt moral account that no future peace can ever settle.

The diplomats discussed the strategic necessity of the bombardment over a remarkably light sorbet, while the children outside were being relieved of the burden of growing up.

Control your own impulse to turn away from the wreckage, for while you cannot stop the spear, you can refuse to call the slaughter justice.

They claim to defend civilization while systematically destroying the very youth whose education and safety are the only true markers of a rational society.

The official report was filed in a clean manila folder, while in the corner of the ward, a small pair of shoes remained exactly where they were stepped out of.

To a child shivering under the fire of a state that claims to love liberty, your proclamations of international law are a hollow mockery and a blood-stained lie.

What the politician calls a demographic adjustment, the mother in the ruins experiences as the absolute end of the world.

We are told this is a civilized war, which is a high compliment to the savages, who at least never thought to invent a committee to justify the killing of schoolboys.