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As I write these words, I am sitting at home in Tel Aviv, trying to figure out how to protect my family in a house with no shelter or safe room, following with growing panic the reports and rumors of horrible events taking place in the Israeli towns near Gaza which are under attack. I see people, some of them my friends, calling on social media to attack Gaza more fiercely than ever before. Some Israelis are saying that now is the time to eradicate Gaza entirely — essentially calling for genocide. Through all the explosions, the dread and the bloodshed, speaking about peaceful solutions seems like madness to them.

Yet I remember that everything that I am feeling now, which every Israeli must be sharing, has been the life experience of millions of Palestinians for far too long. The only solution, as it has always been, is to bring an end of apartheid, occupation, and siege, and promote a future based on justice and equality for all of us. It is not in spite of the horror that we have to change course — it is exactly because of it.

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[–] red@sopuli.xyz -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

The comments in this thread are mind blowing. Simply put, people are cheering for pure terrorists who also want to kill all Jews, while condemning the side who has offered peace treaties multiple times, and always been either flat out rejected, or betrayed.

And somehow just because you hit back with a bigger stick after your children have been blown to bits, you're the bad guy.

There's a "both bad" crowd here, totally rejecting reality, and then a surprisingly large pro-terrorism crowd.

What the fuck.

Oh and don't forget OP speaking about writing this from Tel Aviv as he would be living in Israel. He's in UK.

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