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Our Children ... Jewels More Precious Than Stone

My wife and children and the Staff of the Building the Bridge Foundation, The Hague, join me in dedicating this work to all the children in the Region. Too many are now imprisoned. Too many are being emotionally, mentally and spiritually molested. Too many kids are killed, beaten, and kidnapped. Our future generation should be in school, not foregoing their optimism, innocence, and youth in tyrannical and exploitive military jails.

Some slap a soldier in the face. Others throw stones. Many are in jail for no reason at all, other than they fit the profile, not necessarily the crime; or, their brother or sister might just have been picked up.

If the baseball pitcher in Yankee Stadium throws a stone, it is lethal. But kids? Israeli Journalist Larry Derfner reports that 99 percent of the time, stones thrown by kids, land on other stones, on the street or against a building. If, in the most unlikely event, a stone strikes a soldier, rest assured the soldier wears riot gear, protected with a helmet and a bulletproof vest.

Nonetheless, their reprisals are 1,000 Eyes for 1 Eye.

On the other side are children who do not know better. They follow in the footsteps of their role models. They, too, are traumatized for life.

We dedicate our work to all children, the future of our planet, especially those who are presently in anguish, separated from their parents, because of a regime that knows not better. They fix blame rather than fix problems. Isn't it time to unbridle our moral imagination?

Our hearts are with all the children, everywhere.