>I have just now received a report that five schoolboys in Israel were murdered (more than 20 injured) when a lone terrorist infiltrated their school).
And all the memories have come flooding back.

Strange, these memories come flooding back with respect to an attack on Israeli interests. Those well informed about the recent events, like yourself Keiva, will not have missed reports of attacks by Jewish extremists and the Israeli army on Palestinian children and schools, in which so many children were killed and exposed to similar horrors that your children were confronted with. Have these facts affected you to a far lesser extent, Keiva? For this would in turn represent the same double-standard all those actively caught up in the conflict continue to disregard. The memory of innocent children killed in such brutal attacks can thus, in these warped minds, be used as leverage for political and military objectives.
Even in death, these children are used as tools with which to drum up support for the machine of war, and it makes me sick to the stomach.