Gary Markstein for October 18, 2023

A pox on both their house Israel is as guilty as Hamas., nether are innocent.

Netanyahu and his ilk cannot imagine any such thing as an innocent Palestinian. Hamas and their ilk cannot imagine any such thing as an innocent. Israeli.

If the rain comes

They might as well be dead (The Beatles)

And the holy city for both, Jerusalem, means “city of peace”. Sadly, tragically ironic.

The Israelis are showing evidence that it was a misfired Hamas rocket that hit the hospital.

There are suffering innocents in both Israel and Gaza. They are to be grieved. Numerically, there are more suffering innocents in Gaza. The bombing of the (Anglican) hospital alone resulted in hundreds of deaths.

I don’t see how either set of leaders will do anything but lean into their belligerence, but we do know who’ll pay the price.

One side has the benefit of american made umbrellas, the other side.. nothing.

No matter how much you try, there is no equivalence. There was no brutal massacre in Gaza by Israel. The attacks against Gaza (hopefully this will be the final one) were all in response to terror by the various terrorist groups in Gaza who constantly shoot rockets into civilian areas in Israel. It’s fairly simple.Now is the time to focus on the brutal horror carried out by Hamas. It’s not the time to make moral equivalences.

Who’ll stop the rain . . .

The concept of ‘Total War’ is that there are no innocents. That includes the children of the people responsible. The people either support their government who wages war, or they have not worked hard enough to overcome their government waging war. Run your country like that and war would be all but eliminated.

Sorry girls. Those who have the gold drop the bombs.

it is so sad to think that this violence actually makes America seem like a safe country