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karin phillipson's avatar

Ads! Always on point!! Sobering, and utterly realistic and depressing. Thanks for always and so eloquently writing down what is on our minds 🙏🙏🙏. Shabbat shalom

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Jodi Solovy's avatar

I loved this piece. It’s brutally honest, beautifully eloquent and oh so heart-wrenching. How everyone doesn’t understand this truth is mind-boggling. Thank you for writing it. I restacked it.

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Edie's avatar

You are absolutely correct in your assessment of what the Arabs want and what Israel needs to do: grow, excel, and question their "peace" intentions always. Your realistic view of the dynamics in the Middle East gives me hope that those willing to have a "nice" discussion with such a brutal enemy for peace, will understand what you're saying.

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Yanpol's avatar

Ask anyone who says Nakba Day if they read even the first paragraph of Zuraiq's Meaning if the Nakba.

They'll be surprised to get to understand that "the catastrophe" was the Arab failure to genocide all Jews from the Levant.

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anvlex's avatar

I agree with a lot of what you said, especially on the fact that Western progressives don’t place nearly enough blame on the Palestinian national movement (whether you call it the PLO, PA, or Hamas) for the situation Palestinians find themselves in.

I don’t agree with everything, but instead of re-litigating what happened in 1947 or 1968 or 1994 etc, I have to ask what’s the endgame for Israel?p

They’ve already won the war. Haniyeh is dead. Nasrallah is dead. Sinwar is dead. Al-Qassam is a shadow of its former self

But there are still millions of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza who hate Israel and Jews with all their souls, even more than they did before oct 7. At least ten, maybe close to 50, times as many Palestinians have died after Oct 7 as Israelis died on Oct 7.

What’s the solution? There’s clearly no attempt to tamp down on tensions as reprisals, explosions and vigilante attacks in the West Bank have increased. Would Israel prefer that there not be 2 million Palestinians in Gaza anymore? There’s a word for that, a much uglier one than *nakba*, but honestly, Israel doesn’t really seem to be taking concrete steps in that direction either.

Instead, it all seems like increasing human suffering without direction, without an end goal. Just muddling along with an ever deteriorating and less and less viable status quo.

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Adam Hummel's avatar

You forgot one thing: 58 hostages remain in Gaza. Hostages get returned, the war ends.

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anvlex's avatar

There was a deal. But Bibi clearly holds certain things like controlling the Philadelphi corridor as more important than returning the hostages. And to be fair, I can see the argument for that.

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GUSUN's avatar

Lesson learned…

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Lauri Buckley's avatar

I who heartedly agree with your assessment. I do not understand how anyone can’t understand the simplest truth. They say what they want clearly want…kill the Jews then the rest of non believers. That is very clear to me… delusional thinking by many in this world to think they really don’t mean that.

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Pete Ross's avatar

Nobody believes becuz all the big hoaxes from 911HOAX to CoviodHoax

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