The psychological damage being inflicted on these children is incalculable. "My son is really hurt from the inside," said a parent whose child was severely wounded by the bombing. "We try to talk to him to feel better and we can't stop ourselves from crying."
The cries against war in Yemen also fall like rain and whatever thunder accompanies the rain is distant, summer thunder. Yet, if we cooperate with war making elites, the most horrible storms will be unleashed. We must learn-and quickly-to make a torrent of our mingled cries and, as the prophet Amos demanded, "let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream."
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