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If there’s one thing my Jewish brothers, sisters, and siblings have taught me over the past year, it is that ceasefire is a fundamentally Jewish value.
Yes it really sucks to be told I'm the wrong kind of Jew, or that my kind of Jew doesn't even exist. Even as a majority of American Jews agree with the necessity of a Palestinian state and a solid third agree that what's happening in Gaza is genocide (caveat that polling is v hard for small groups)
Just remember that Biden, McGurk, Hochstein, etc all set this path when they decided that permanently burying the issue of Palestinian statehood was an acceptable component to subsume into their broader scheme for Saudi-Israeli normalization.
Meanwhile, in Gaza: “At 12 mos into this war I can tell you that 1.9 million people have been displaced…a reported 41,000 people have been killed. I can tell you that 63% of buildings have been damaged or destroyed. But I cannot quantify the horrors people have endured relentlessly for 12 months."
UN humanitarians launched a $426 million appeal for Lebanon on Tuesday to support one million people uprooted by widespread Israeli shelling amid what Israel has described as a “limited, localised and...
Israeli airstrikes kill at least 37 in Gaza, Palestinian medics say
Israeli airstrikes killed at least 37 people in Gaza on Tuesday, local medics said and fighting ramped up, as the Israeli military said it had been targeting command centres used by its Islamist militant foe Hamas.