8+ hour, 6+ min ago (375+ words) That framing is too small for the truth. It shuts down empathy, flattens complexity and forces us into positions that do not honor the full human reality before us. The grief on both sides is immeasurable. I refuse to rank one people's anguish above another's or participate in a moral calculus that diminishes anyone's suffering. My Jewish tradition teaches that "one must strive to be human in the face of inhumanity." It insists that "no one's blood is redder than another's." These are not abstractions. They are moral demands, reminding us that the sanctity of life does not stop at a border, a checkpoint or because of a narrative. Two of the most important Jewish philosophers of the 20th century, Emmanuel Levinas and Martin Buber, warned us about this type of collapse of moral vision. Levinas taught that the face of…...