Sometimes the loss is too big and words are too small.
Yes, a word can lift a spirit or destroy a dream. A word can bring laughter and joy or bring sadness and tears. But what words cannot do is bring back a life where there is one no more.  Words cannot return a father to his son. Words cannot fill the gaping hole in a mother’s heart. Words cannot wipe the tears from a widow’s cheek.
Words have their limits, so why use them at all? We’ve begged, we’ve pleaded, we’ve whispered, we’ve screamed. No matter how loud or how quiet, the world refuses to hear our words. The enemies refuse to stand down.

So why speak at all? Why not throw our hands up in the air and wave a white flag? Let them blame us. Let them call us equals in this war. Let them say Israel must stop the violence. Because it’s our word against theirs, and ours seems not to matter.
But then I remember those who perished. I remember the blood soaked ground. I remember the 24 orphaned children. I remember the brave policeman who sacrificed himself for the sake of his country and his people, leaving his daughter to grow up without a father. And I say: how can we be silent? Regardless of how small our words are, regardless of who does and doesn’t listen, how can we not speak at all?

We are not equals in this fight. We did not start this war. My brothers were standing wrapped in prayer shawls looking to God. Praying for peace. Praying their children could grow up in a land free of terror. Praying for clarity from above.
These murderers came from behind. These cowardly men had no guns pointed at their faces, no knives pressed against their necks, no threat to their lives. In fact these murderers walked unhindered into a Jewish house of worship with cleavers and guns in hand. These murderers took the lives of innocent men.

And what did CNN tell the world? “Police gunshot killing two Palestinians.” The adapted headline read: “4 Israelis, 2 Palestinians, killed in synagogue attack,” failing to mention those two Palestinians were indeed the murderers themselves.

These are words that matter CNN.