So many people — it's just hard to believe, but just so many people dead, so many people gravely injured, so much carnage, such a disgrace. The horror is beyond description. The families of these wonderful people are totally devastated, and they will be forever. Likewise, our whole nation and indeed the whole world is devastated.

It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.

It was shocking, deeply shocking.

The horror! The horror!

Homes were destroyed, crops lost, schools deserted. Just corpses, just corpses everywhere. On the streets, in the woods, in the wells.

Even women and children were not spared, and were ruthlessly cut to pieces.

This statement I LOVE YOU has wrecked more horrendous havoc on humanity that can’t be imagined.

Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger.

It was a bizarre happening, an unprecedented situation, a grotesque situation, an almost unbelievable mischance.

Huge, awful, hideous, ghastly, blind.

Moreover, you know … mass murder, slaughter, is often an abstract thing. But when you happen to see it directly, to be a witness of it, it’s something quite different, you cannot just play games. It changes you deeply. And you are compelled to do something. The last weeks of 71, November to mid December, were among the most moving, disturbing and terrible I have experienced in my whole life. I saw things I should not have seen. I saw things a man should not see. But I saw them.

Nobody could have imagined a thing like this — a tragedy like this would have happened: the invisible enemy.

The terrifying events happening right now in Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of totally innocent people are being killed without differentiation, unable to flee, cannot be justified in any way.

The opening sentence alone contained thirty-six words — monstrous