Why is there such silence? Where is the outrage? When kids in Gaza die in an airstrike, the charges of genocide and murder fill the editorial page. When Hezbollah, which has denied responsibility, targets a soccer field and kills 12 children and teens there is nothing. Can the usual local hypocrisy be demonstrated more clearly? Hezbollah and its Lebanese hosts have no current territory disputes with Israel. There is no war between the antagonists on the northern border of Israel. There is no military value in a soccer field. What possible justification can there be for such an attack on civilians other than cruelty and the desire to kill Jews. What possible justification is there in the first place for the ongoing daily rocket attacks by Hezbollah? Further irony is that this attack on the soccer field killed Druse. Maybe that will get the local hypocrites to be more sympathetic once they discover that sympathy, in this case, does not have to be for Jews. Let’s get some objectivity, people.

David Sloviter

Amherst