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“Sderot Cinema” is the caption the journalist gave to a photo he took in Israel. He shot a picture of about a dozen people lounging in plastic chairs outside the town of Sderot, and eating popcorn while they watched and cheered Israeli soldiers bombarding the plains of Gaza.

As we walk the streets of our cities and towns, we do not even ‘see’ the people living on the footpaths, the children working in tea-stalls, men, women and children looking for scraps of paper, cardboard and pieces of metal, and a hundred other similar scenes. We have been passing by such things from our childhood and we have become immune to them.

When people sit – popcorn in their hands – and watch live the bombarding of human habitations, we realize to what depths our insensitivity can go.

May God forgive all of us; may He help us become more human; may He enable us to put ourselves in the shoes of people who suffer within our sight.

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