A young Palestinian boy cowers in fear with his father.
Why are innocent children dying in the Middle East?
Does it matter who kills them?
Consider this:

Food for Thought:

"“First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.”."

Martin Niemöeller (1892-1984)

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Martin Niemöeller was a Protestant pastor born Jan. 14, 1892, in Lippstadt, Westphalia. He was a submarine commander in World War I. He was anticommunist and initially supported the Nazis until the church was made subordinate to state authority.

In 1934, he started the Pastors' Emergency League to defend the church. Hitler became angered by Niemöeller's rebellious sermons and popularity and had him arrested on July 1, 1937. He was tried the following year and sentenced to seven months in prison and fined.

After his release, Hitler ordered him arrested again. He spent the next seven years in concentration camps in "protective custody." He was liberated in 1945 and was elected president of the Protestant church in Hesse and Nassau in 1947. He held the title until 1964. He was also a president of the World Council of Churches in the 1960s.

Niemöeller was a pacifist who spoke out against nuclear weapons. He is best known for his powerful statement about the failure of Germans to speak out against the Nazis.