A lot of people seem to be perplexed by my defense of Palestinian civilians, and at my outrage as evidence of their knowing murder by the IDF continues to emerge, even in the Israeli press. I try in life to be consistent. If me and my family were being subjected to indiscriminate targeting for simply living where we do, I would want to call for help. If they decided that the place where we were sheltering was a "kill zone" without telling us and used that as an excuse to murder my neighbours or members of my family, I would want to make my case to the world, knowing that when others needed to, I did not rationalize away their plight. And if the forces raining hell on my neighborhood were telling the world that "we simply hate the democrats for what they have done to the world, and americans have all voted for them repeatedly, there are no uninvolved", I would want to protest that this is immoral and absurd. I would want to do so knowing that I didn't take the other side of this argument when I didn't have a dog in the fight, or when it would benefit me to do so. If you've learned nothing from what I post here, I hope you have taken away that consistency is the thing I aspire to the most, and what I look for in others. Do I always accomplish it? I'm sure not. But to allow myself knowingly to be inconsistent is the sort of behavior that would invalidate damn near everything I have ever posted from this account. Agree or disagree with it, at least understand where I'm coming from. It really seems like the people who say "I really like what you've been posting before, but on this you've gone off the rails" have missed the core of my message.
@alexandrosM I’m a Zionist and believe the two state solution is the best option. I would not have invaded Gaza.
@alexandrosM If I lived in a country with a government willingly prolonging a war with no chance of winning, I’d rightly be questioning why those in power are still fighting and maintaining their grip on control at the expense of my family’s & fellow citizen’s lives… Hamas needs to fold.
@alexandrosM And if Hamas turned your neighborhood into their military HQ?
I have no disagreement with your stance to protect innocents from mass murder. What I can't get my head around is how all four sides of this conflict (Israel gov, Israel civilians, Hamas, Palestine civilians) expect their lobbying of us outsiders to change the situation. There seems to be an expectation that some superpower or multilateral coalition will come in with the biggest guns of all to subdue the fighting, and somehow that will bring this conflict to some resolution. The cycle of violence seems to pause, and then we see events like Oct7 spark a new conflict. Intervention seems to do no good toward a lasting peace. Even negotiating a temporary cease-fire with a release of hostages seems futile. I have tried to distance myself from this intractable situation. I view it as hopeless, and certainly beyond my ability to comprehend or influence in any positive way.
@alexandrosM In short, if it was Palestinians turning an Israeli neighborhood into a killzone, you would feel exactly the same way. Genuinely crazy that you can catch flak for that.