Dear Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, and anybody else who thinks they have something to prove in the Middle East:

Just because you CAN kill your enemy doesn’t necessarily mean you SHOULD. Especially in a situation where right and wrong and guilt and innocence are fuzzy, where the moral weight is shifty and hard to guage. Because you can always find an excuse to blame and punish the guys on the other side and, not unreasonably, so can they. But then you’re gonna spend your whole stinkin’ life hating and killing and burying and grieving, back and forth, until everybody’s forgotten what the petty, pathetic little war was all about in the first place. Is that what you want?  Say something. Say you’d prefer that hell on earth over anything else. Say you’d rather blow each other’s brains out than try understanding, forgiveness, or god forbid, peace. Go ahead, retaliate like there’s no tomorrow. Yeah, knock yourself out.