In the article "How the Murder of Four Teens Started a War", by Patricia Smith, the article talks about the killings of 4 teenagers, and how it was the start of a seven-week battle between Israel and Hamas, a militant group that controls Gaza. Smith starts the article off by describing how the three Israeli boys, Naftali Fraenkel, Gilad Shaar, and Eyal Yifrach, were killed. She then tells of the Jewish extremists who took the life of the fourth boy, Muhammad Abu Khdeir, a Palestinian. Over the course of the article, Smith describes the history between Israel and the Palestinians. She then ends by talking about what might happen next and what people hope will happen next.
The pictures right above the beginning of the article show the four boys all smiling, days before the killings. I think that this is meant to show their innocence and how horrible it was to have them being killed off. Throughout the article, Smith uses loaded words, when she says "Israel launched devastating airstrikes in Gaza." The word "devastating", in my opinion, is a very powerful word. I feel that devastating isn't the right word, and that the sentence would sound better without it. Also, the author uses heavy words to express her point of view. For example, she said "... for surviving Israel's military onslaught." This quote caught my eye, because she uses "onslaught" to show her feelings on the casualties from the seven-week war. This makes the reader think that she is more sided with the Palestinians, because the way she worded this sentence makes the Israelis look like horrible, mean people, while the Palestines are innocent and a victim.
Overall, the idea that killing innocent teenagers makes me feel unsafe, because if this can happen in a situation like this, it can happen anywhere. This also makes me realize how self-centered and selfish countries can be, because they are not thinking about all of the trouble they are causing and how many people they have hurt, physically and emotionally.
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