It’s not that kindness is a moral imperative because it’s convenient. Kindness is a moral imperative because unkindness done to one turns that one’s grandchildren into monsters who will return that unkindness a thousandfold.
Even if the unkindness being done to Palestinians were to stop today, with all of the trauma that has been inflicted upon those children, what does the world have to look forward to in 80 years?
When will we begin to think about the effects of our actions on other people’s grandchildren first, rather than condemning our own to suffer the consequences?