More fury, grief about Hersh's death, that of the other hostages, of everyone slaughtered these last 11 months. About the false binary of "hostages v Palestinians" when the real binary was always "soaking the earth with more & more blood" or "diplomacy." All for all was on the table in OCTOBER.

History is doomed to repeat is how I feel with all this, but I know I know I know I must absolutely never succumb to such thinking, to normalise these tragedies of life because if those lives meant anything the bare minimum we can all do is give a damn. The lives mattered and still do *all* of them.

Netanyahu and his thug government doesn’t give the slightest shit about hostages and their actions show it

It's all so damnably familiar as someone who had a lot of friends come back from Iraq and Afghanistan worse for it, but not as much worse as Iraq and Afghanistan.

At the big vigil in Columbus Circle tonight at the end the leftist group started chanting "Ceasefire Now" and ofc the general public was not a fan of this...but they didn't realize that 5 minutes ago when they were chanting "Seal the Deal" they were saying the same thing?

What Netanyahu’s government is doing is the opposite of Tikkun Olam.

I still don't understand how "all for all" was going to work.

I talked to a close Israeli friend on October 7th who said, "And now thousands of Palestinians will die and they won't 'get Hamas,' because that's impossible." It's always been clear what would happen. Always.

Long before October really