Unholy Land?

An ITN reporter on last night's news made the poignant comment that the only thing Israel and Hamas seem to agree on is that the violence should continue.
Watching the tragic footage of bleeding, torn and dismembered human beings makes you wonder if any 'just cause' exists that could possibly justify such appalling suffering.
It seems that people of every nation and belief are capable of turning this 'holy land' - the planet that all humans being share custody of, and nobody really owns – into an unholy mess. And in the process, doing the same kind of damage to their own integrity.
The only highlights were those people risking their own safety to pull wounded children and adults out of the bombed wreckage of their homes, the medical staff who carried on operating way past their point of exhaustion, and the orphaned children trying to shelter and care for even younger ones.
For love to survive amid that grim and relentless carnage is a testimony that human nature is capable of real heroism – not the kind that calls itself heroic while bombing the life out of fellow enemies.