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Joshua Scheer
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We are told we live in an age of connection — a globalized world, linked by technology, trade, and endless talk of shared humanity — yet every day that promise is shattered by bombs, borders, and the machinery of war. What kind of world claims modernity while homes are erased faster than they are built, while children inherit rubble where summers were meant to live?
Haytham Kaafarani, a U.S. citizen and professor of surgery at Harvard wrote: “I took care of the Boston Marathon bombing victims in 2013. I paid for seven years to own a small apartment in downtown Beirut for my three kids to enjoy summers there. Today, Israel reduced my dream home to rubble, with American weapons, paid for by my taxes.”
I am a US citizen & Surgeon who took care of the Boston Maraton Bombing victims in 2013. I paid for 7 years to own a small apartment in downtown #Beirut for my 3 kids to enjoy summers there. Today, #Israel reduced my dream home to rubble, with american weapons, paid by my taxes. pic.twitter.com/E6Ab1T769w
— Haytham Kaafarani (@hayfarani) March 18, 2026
There is something devastating in that sentence because it reveals how war folds back on itself: the hands that heal in one city are forced to witness destruction in another, financed by the same state that speaks of security and peace. A home built year by year, sacrifice by sacrifice, disappears in seconds beneath fire delivered from the sky.
This is what war does everywhere — not in speeches, not in maps, but in kitchens, bedrooms, photographs, books left on shelves, children’s laughter interrupted mid-history. The language of geopolitics often hides the simplest truth: every missile lands inside someone’s ordinary life.
If we are ever to call ourselves a civilized world, it will not be because borders held or armies prevailed, but because we finally learned that no nation’s power justifies turning another family’s future into dust.
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