IN THE COASTAL town where I live, this winter when the skies were filled with thousands of Western monarch butterflies as the overwintering migratory phase peaked, all I could think about were the leaflets Israeli war planes drop over Gaza; the juxtaposition of safety and beauty with terror and war, as the conflict enters its sixth month, leaving over 32,000 Palestinians, 196 humanitarian aid workers, including 7 members of World Central Kitchen dead.
The leaflets fall silently, but contain messages of violence and inhumanity.
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