To the Editor:
I am hearing such horror and outrage around me at the death of ten-month-old Shalhevet Pass - an Israeli baby shot by Palestinian gunfire. There is widespread revulsion, and rightfully so. I myself am so deeply disturbed by her death. I was heartbroken when I learned of it. The strange thing is that some people are reacting as if this is the first child that has been murdered during the Intifada.
More than 160 Palestinian children have been shot, bombed, or beaten to death in the past five months by Israeli soldiers and settlers. Including little babies. Why is the conscience of so many people tapped now over this death and not over the death of the scores of Arab children? I have not seen the level of remorse during the entire Intifada that I have seen over little Shalhevet. I did not read and hear so many words of sadness in the newspapers, through e-mails, and all around me in conversation over the Palestinian children? Why is this? All children are innocent no matter what. All children are equal.
