The More You Care For Gaza, the More Children You Help Kill
Palestinian suffering isn't an unintended tragedy , it's a calculated weapon of war. By prioritizing empathy over victory, Israel enables the very violence it seeks to end
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Introduction
Suffering, in and of itself, does not inherently distinguish between good and evil. Nazis, pedophiles, murderers, and thieves can experience suffering just as acutely as innocent children. Therefore, suffering alone is not a category that demands empathy.
This is particularly relevant when considering that the suffering of a Palestinian child, while tragic, is a designed tool in a broader strategy aimed at the destruction of Israel within the 100-year-old rubric of - adults committing Jihad and hiding behind their own children's as human shield suffering when the stronger Jews hit back". In fact, without this suffering as part of a military strategy, the mathematical probability of adult Palestinians committing acts of violence against Israeli children would diminish significantly, and so would the probability of death to Arab children.
The Nature of Suffering
Am I empathetic when a pedophile or a Nazi suffers? Certainly not, and I would hope their victims share this sentiment. Am I more empathetic when an Arab child suffers? Undoubtedly, but this empathy must be tempered by the understanding that their suffering is:
Does this context make the suffering any less real? No, it does not. However, the solution lies not in unchecked empathy but in addressing the root causes. A radical but logical approach would be to eliminate the adults who exploit their children as sacrificial pawns, leaving only the children in Gaza alive. In the absence of such a drastic measure, excessive displays of empathy and self-flagellating introspection, such as questioning “What have we become?”, only pave the way for more illusory agreements. These agreements, in turn, lead to more wars, resulting in the deaths of more Arab children.
The Mathematical Consequence of Empathy
Those who publicly align themselves with the suffering of Palestinian children today are, in effect inductively, condemning tomorrow’s Palestinian children to certain death.
This is mathematical inevitability. Because if the Jews calculate the life of the Arab child within the framework that it is lost, as part of his military-equation-factor, and avoid total victory by this over-calculation, they will enable half of the war-strategy of their enemy to survive.
If half of his war strategy, that is meant to create pressure on Israel to lay its arms survives, the likelihood of full surrender of the Arab diminishes, and so do the chances of more war, and together with them, more death of children, increases.
The Israeli left’s calls for compassion are a fulfillment of the successes of this strategy to use the death of children to continue the murderous actions of their parents, as part of a wider division of labor.
It would be more rational for them to suggest to adopt Gazan children.
By prioritizing empathy for Palestinian suffering, they inadvertently perpetuate a cycle of violence that claims more lives on both sides.
Some argue that the suffering of Jewish children is less significant than that of Arab children, perhaps because Arab adults appear to place less value on their children’s lives and because their parents, even if they were not insane to sacrifice them to war, are also weaker militarily.
They claim there are “innocents” among the Palestinians who are harmed, necessitating a reevaluation of Israel’s policies in Gaza. While young children are undoubtedly innocent in any society, their suffering in wartime is a direct consequence of their parents’ decisions to wage war in violation of the Geneva Convention and to overlook this is to forget Israeli children and to prioritize Palestinian children whose parents willingly sacrifice them.
In fact, Israelis does not look at the death of their own children as part of a war of conquest, the Arabs – are sick enough to do.
The Role of the Israeli Left
The Israeli left aspires to act as an impartial mediator for peace between nations, adopting a multicultural stance as a “parent” to all children, Muslim and Jewish alike. This approach is misguided. By expressing “compassion” for Arab children, the left plays into a century-old Palestinian tactic of “murder and suffering.” In this division of labor, the adult murders while the child suffers, and it is precisely through empathy for the child’s suffering that the adult is enabled to continue killing his enemy who gets moved by the pain that is caused, and wishes to lay down and let the Muslim fight another day - and sacrifice another son.
The Israeli left, through its protests and moral posturing, unwittingly facilitates the deaths of future Arab children.
These same leftists argue that Israel sacrifices its soldiers, drawing a false equivalence to the Arab practice of sacrificing children. They seek moral symmetry, but there is a fundamental difference between sacrificing an armed soldier and using defenseless children as human shields.
The Flawed Moral Framework
The left’s tendency to overlook Israeli children stems from two flawed assumptions:
These assumptions are rooted in an atheistic-universalist worldview that presumes even Islamic societies do not wish to sacrifice their own children.
This view refuses to acknowledge the reality: that Arab factions are willing to let their children die. Lacking power, their only means of creating a perceived balance with Jews is not only to kill but also to suffer and elicit empathy - a form of weakness - in their targets.
The Palestinian Division of Labor
The Palestinians have engineered a division of labor: the broader public engages in or supports murder, while their children bear the suffering. Every Arab child’s suffering or death serves the purpose of enabling their parents to continue killing Jews, ensuring the survival of a collective defined by violence.
Meanwhile, the secular, Western-influenced Jew draws a distinction between the sufferer and the murderer, failing to grasp that without the Palestinian child’s suffering, opportunities for murder would diminish.
Conclusion
Compassion for the Palestinian child enables the murder of the Israeli child, and the murder of the Israeli child perpetuates the killing of the Arab child. This is the cycle that must be broken. To those like Uri Misgav, who claim to seek the salvation of Arab children, the path forward is clear: advocate for the decisive conquest of Gaza. Only by dismantling the structures that perpetuate this cycle of violence can the suffering of all children - Palestinian and Israeli - be addressed. Anything less is complicity in the ongoing tragedy.