The Equation of Death
by @jay Shenoy
Palestinian gunmen shooting down civillians. Israeli tanks tearing apart boys on bicycles. Suicide bombers proving
how aptly named they are. Bulldozers turning homes into piles of wreckage. The Palestinian Intifida. The Israeli
Occupation. All the players, from the Israeli Defense (or Occupation, depending on who's asked) Force to the
Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas trying to rack up their kill counts, see who can get more frags, see who can
set the new record for slaughter. Except the ones who die, the ones slaughtered, are more often than not the most
innocent, those who didn't want to kill anyone. Each side cheers with each respective decapitated child, each
bullet-riddled grandmother, each shredded, twisted, blood-soaked corpse. Why? Why are so many average Palestinians
turned into the latest brand of smart bombs? The answer to this question opens the whole Israel-Palestine hellhole
wide open for a look at the tactics and crimes of both militants and IDF, sides that seem more and more alike with
every glance. Shots have been fired, fuses have been lit, villages have been occupied, homes have been wrecked, The
tennis match has been played out for years, and hitting the ball back over the net only guarantees it will come back
harder next time. The game must be called a draw quickly, or both sides will lose.
This Flash thing tries to make some sense out of the senselessness. This equation is not just something out of
highschool algebra, but something even deadlier, something that, though simple in nature, has haunted humanity
for centuries. Finding a solution to this equation is a bit harder than getting X on one side, but the reward
is somewhat bigger than five points extra credit - modern math couldn't find how many lives such an answer would save.
The Equation of Death
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