It trumps not going there, that forbidden space where no one can say anything bad about Israel without incurring the wrath of those who would shout “antisemite!”
Eradicating Hamas is a fool’s errand, and in the process of trying to do it, Netanyahu has taken on the persona of an ogre who listens to no one, while thousands of Gazans face unimaginable hardships and loss. They have next to nothing to live on or return to.
Civilians are the victims of a cowardly Hamas tactic that has made it difficult for the Israelis to be “surgical” and instead leads to merciless, indiscriminate bombing and shelling and horrendous injury and destruction.
I have to believe that much of the protesting has been because of Israel’s relentless response that has shifted in perception from righteously retaliatory to heinously excessive. I’m not sure where the flag-waving, pro-Palestinian voices come from. Perhaps it is because there still exists a segment of the population who will always be irrationally suspicious of Jews. Or perhaps its ranks are growing because of an innate human response to the suffering of the Gazan people.
Either way, people are growing more familiar with what they’re looking at, and the plight of Gazan civilians is looking more and more like blatant cruelty.
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