is that I can run this AP photograph from Gaza, taken in January by German photographer Anja Niedringhaus,
as often as I like. I've run it once. I ought to run it every day. The boy at the right is Mohammed Kutkut. He's 14. His dead classmate–of three killed classmates, the boy who shared his desk–was Ahed Qaddas. I wonder what these boys even think about the two-state solution, or their own futures.
And yes, I reflect that when I was 12, my best friend J.R. Krevans ran up to me in Mt. Washington Elementary School and crowed that the Israeli army had just destroyed the Egyptian and Syrian air force on the ground. I had little idea what J.R. was talking about. I got lucky that way. Missed my inoculation.
