Hey guys, you know what will totally improve this terrorism problem? Concentrating people into ghettos for decades on end as you slowly erode their land by attrition. Then, when they lash out, you relentlessly bomb them, eliminating vast swaths of families.

Surely, no survivors will harbor any repressed feelings, amirite?

The longer this goes on, the more danger we’re all in, both Jews and Muslims. The longer this goes on, the more anti-semitism and islamophobia will become normalized, because the whole world will have somewhere to point and say “those people did bad things, so they must all be bad everywhere.”

The longer this goes on, the more our speech will be limited to avoid angering the moneyed class, the evangelical rapture cults, and the arms industry. The voices that matter most will be harder to hear because they’ll be drowned out by raw hatred coming from those who don’t understand the history of the region or its people.

We need to tone down the zealous rhetoric, back away from unconditional support of unreliable regimes, and remember that empathy is one of the most powerful and useful emotions, if we all allow ourselves to feel it.

That’s how the signed letter ends. It makes total sense to me.

We know there is no military solution to this crisis. We know that Israelis and Palestinians are here to stay — neither Jewish safety nor Palestinian liberation can be achieved if they are pitted against one another. We know that freedom for one people cannot be reached through the oppression and killing of another. We know that Israeli and Palestinian safety is deeply intertwined and that no one wins a forever war. The only way to lasting peace and security is through diplomatic means that move us towards an equal and just future for all.

We urge President Biden and Congress to work for a ceasefire, the release of the hostages, and a diplomatic solution that guarantees equality, justice, and a thriving future for all.

There was a ceasefire. What happened?

Sometimes I wonder if the admin is just … waiting for the Israelis to finish it. Like, they’ve decided that this is going to be an eternal conflict until someone decisively “wins.” Unfortunately the winning condition for both Likud and Hamas appears to be 100% enemy casualties.

Everyone’s backed into a corner here. The various Arab nations that have hated Israel since its’ modern inception and hated Jews for a LONG time before that want Israel gone, Likud seems to want Hamas and most Palestinians gone.

There’s no way out of this until everyone agrees everyone else gets to live.

If the US just washes its hands of the whole thing tomorrow we might have another regional war that could escalate unpredictably. If they pressure Israel to cease-fire, the various PACs start throwing money around (though I think they have less power than politicians are afraid of, honestly - money can only do so much).

I have no idea how you even begin to negotiate with Hamas or whoever’s running the show in the West Bank. The whole thing is a massive clusterfuck and anybody with a neat, simple solution is either a genocidal maniac or delusional.

This is so wild. In the US, the majority of Jewish people support Palestinians while the Christian nationalists support Israel. And those fascists support Israel in order to fulfill a prophecy in which all Jews are destroyed (except for those who convert).

Netanyahu and his Jewish-supremacist allies rely on Americans who want Jesus to finish Hitler’s work. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.

Takes two to tango. I’m sure if the White House could get a cease fire and hostage release again they would. Hamas is still firing rockets at Isreal.