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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wish more people could adhere to this. The entire world seems to be heading in a bad direction.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Almost a century ago, our forefathers had fought against a rising tide of tyranny, marching almost relentlessly across the world.

I suppose it’s may soon be our turn to fight again…

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

By making the Palestinians pay the price for Europe's crimes?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I really don’t think that’s what they were saying.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But that is exactly what is happening.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

To be more clear: I’m pretty sure the person you responded to was lamenting the general rise in authoritarianism everywhere