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A couple of years ago i stood with Jerzy (bantonbuju) in the snow at Treblinka - just the two of us - not another soul on the whole site - at the end of our walk there was nothing to say - but two words which linger are the ones in the title of this photograph.

Today my thoughts are with the brothers and sisters, grandparents and parents, aunts and uncles, friends who have witnessed the deaths of nearly two hundred children torn apart by high explosives in the ghettoes of Gaza. Thoughts with the four infants who waited by their dead mothers for hours before help came, for the people who sheltered in a UN school thinking they were safe......and the stories of thousands of injured. Thoughts too for the poor 'near children' who are doing the killing for their government and the scared and frightened citizens of southern Israel who live in fear of things falling from the sky and killing their children. Thoughts for the young Gazan woman, seven months pregnant, whose updates I receive through a friend in the West Bank - in her last mail her neighbours house was flattened - I have heard nothing since.

During my recent visit to Paris I went to Caen for a day to see friends - it was a nice time - looking around the city, meeting up for food, visiting it's famous castle and as darkness drew in so back to Mark's place for a coffee before catching the train back to Paris......

On the way we encountered this, at times, very angry demonstration of French people protesting against the rising toll of death in Gaza and the lack of leadership and diplomacy that was allowing it to continue.......there were hundreds in the demo - and that night and others there have been tens of thousands demonstrating across Europe - when we got back to Mark's the TV showed Israeli demonstrators waving banners in Jerusalem to 'Stop the Massacre'.

Who can disagree with 'Stop the Rockets' ?

Who can disagree with 'Stop the Massacre'?

Perhaps only those who put their own limited value on human life - whatever happened to Jaw Jaw Jaw as opposed to War War War?

At least in France the visible expression of people's feelings may have had the motivating effect of more active leadership to stop the killing from the French President........

Note: The two little white dots in the sky - a moon and star?
Well the bottom one is the moon and the top one is Mars - God of War!