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Oh, I said nothing about getting a conscience. But they can learn the fear of punishment.

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Yes, that's true. But that's very small consolation to the tens of thousands of Gazan victims whose deaths and terrible wounds at the hands of these 'Four Horsemen' would be far better served, healed, given hope, by genuine remorse and by International recognition (led right now by South Africa and the millions of people standing up around the world) and steps toward justice and the stopping of this horrific genocide against them.

And importantly, so that it will not then as easily happen next, unnoticed, somewhere else - as it is in Yemen - where the U.S./Israel/Britain/EU/Saudis etc. etc. and their insatiable, conscienceless, profit driven corporate entities want to continue selling trillions of dollars worth of weapons to steal trillions of dollars worth of oil and resources that are not theirs. But again, I've slipped back into the realm of conscience, which you weren't talking about, but I feel is critical because it is another "species" in danger of extinction if the current western world of merged government/military/corporate politics and power continues unchecked. Men after power are interchangeable, so I don't see their punishment as stopping these voracious forces of greed.

I have greater trust in the light the Gazans are paradoxically shining from their long long bitter agonizing dark night out into the world, that is awakening a light in the millions of people of conscience and the youth around the world as a direct result of their endurance, strength, faith and martydom. I know it does not look this way, but ultimately their power is far greater - like that of MLK and others - than the power of death they are up against. Palestine Will Live, and it is living in all of us.

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"Don't quote laws to us. We carry swords. " - Gnaeus Pompeius

Israel and its American thug carry swords.

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There are other laws at work far greater than the swords.

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice."

MLK

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In the end, that's not what ended the Vietnam War but the NVA.

I would that that the arc of history bends towards power.

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