Gaza, Tel Aviv and Texas Boarder Towns

Yes, Gaza, Tel Aviv and Texas boarder towns. What do they have in common? Sadly the answer is innocent children and few advocates. In Gaza and Tel Aviv, these innocents are dying or are threatened with death. If not death, the fear of it from bombs and missiles. Safety is difficult to find and the leadership you would expect from adults is also something you need to search for and is hard to discover. Two peoples who hate each other. Palestinians and Israelis both with plenty of blame and both not caring much about the innocents. Worse yet, their hatred and continuation of violence just creates more hatred, creates more terrorists and creates more violence. Two hundred Palestinian children blown up, dead and gone, for what?

Then there are the Texas boarder towns and boarder towns in other states where again, innocents, children are being used as badly by gangs, coyotes, cartells and politicians as well as people who present themselves as patriots. We have people standing with American flags and chanting USA, USA, USA as they block and scream at children trying to escape some pretty dangerous and horrible conditions. We, the bystanders watching this, wonder if people understand the difference between immigrants and refugees. We wonder who will speak up for kids who have walked hundreds or thousands of miles to free themselves from danger.

Innocents seem to be used all over the world - children, people with disabilities, the elderly, religious minorities, people with differences who have no control over those differences, young girls wanting an education. That's why we can't just be bystanders. We all have to speak up and point out the madness. Whatever way you can, speak up.