It is such bullshit. How dare that jackass try to diminish what happened on October 7.

The Guardian has the headline, "Israel to ‘seize more ground’ and warns Hamas it will annex parts of Gaza"

Conveniently leaving out in the headline: " unless Hamas released the remaining Israeli hostages still held".

with every adjective or adverb putting negative emphasis on actions of Israel, while ignoring the simple fact that if Hamas had released the hostages a year and a half ago, none of this would be happening. In fact if Hamas had NOT done the Oct 7 slaughter, think how many lives would still be alive today.

It isn't convenient to talk about the catalyst that started all this.

of Israel bashing (that would include a whole alphabet of Western media outlets and the United nations, among many others) is as despicable as it is, to borrow a phrase, pellucidly clear.

It's such a difficult conversation to have. It's been gut punch after gut punch to see the people I once admired become pro-Hamas, at least through their anti-Israel screeds. Is it such a hard thing to understand that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism? Seems so. And I've even seen cartoons of Netanyahu with horns, which harkens back to yet another antisemetic trope out of the past.

I'm really not feeling free to share my deeper thoughts and feelings about this here, cause, well, you know why.