This same Herod built aqueducts and water systems that make tourists gaze with wonder. Guides tell of a ruler who did both good and evil. Joseph and Mary fled with Jesus. They hid from Herod until he was dead. The evil was destroyed.
Love lives longest.
Jesus was born as the least, for the least. He came into a world that oppressed, innocent, children. This means that God knows how children suffer and die by the hands of all of the Herods. For the sake of the children we are to reach out into the world, seek mercy, plead for human rights. The children under the thumb of Herods remind us what nativity is about.