I am amused at the choice of language in your opening paragraph.
Amused is likely an inapproprate word maybe confounded would be moe approprate because there is nothing amusing about decades of aparthide and the starvation and killing of over 44 thousand Palestanians of which 70% are women and children. Or the fact that over 75% of their housing has been destroyed. You can't even find the streets in northern Gaza neighborhoods because there are ust vast areas of large cheuks of rubble wherethere were neighborhoods.
Where over 200 cultural sites have been leveled.
Where Israeli government has actually turned their heads whil Israeli settlers moved intto the West Bank in spite of the fact that these settlements are illegal. And that for more than 15 years there has been a growing incidence of Israeli violance against Palestanians in the West Bank beating up legitament Palestenian residents. Burning homes. Preventing them from reaching their crops. Vandalizing their crops brutally beating them and in some instances killing them.Or handing them off to IDF soldiers who stand by and watch and then put them in adnibistrative detention. No charges, no hearing .
You see, it should not take a rocket scientist to realize this is wrong. But quite a few academics do relize. They can seperate out the difference from hating Jews and hating inhumane policy of their government.
Hamas war unquestionally wrong on October 7th. What they did was a war crime. As bad as they were, Netanyahu is like Hamas on steroids.
Americans are undergoing a reality check. We have watched AIPAC buy off members of Congress for like ever and ever. No other nation has received as much money in military aid since the end of WWII than Israel., and it continues year after year. Israel has become like a 51st State. They gladly take our money but thumb their nose at President Biden when he cautions them about their blanket killing across the strip, including women and children.
Every one of thiose points above are specifically covered in the International code of war crimes.
Destroying cultural sites. Remember how Germany tried to remove all of the artworl and other signs of culture of the Jewish people?
Carpet bombing neighborhoods. Withholding food, water, fuel. Attacking schoold - refugee camps - medical facility.. IDF blocking ambulences coming to the West Back as they stand aroound and watch people bleed out rather than receive medical help.
I don't know how many people durig the past 5 to 6 months have asked me why are the American Taxpayers paying Israel for thing.
I am of a generation where I believed we had to defend Israek's right to exist. Many others my age that I talk to ask me if I still believe this as they are becoming so conflicted by it. I tell them I support the Iron Dome. I support defensive military assistance. But as long as Netanyahu and his government are in control I would not spend another nicke to buy offensive weapons. Bullets, Bombs, no way. With what they have already got from us, they have by their actions made us complicit in war crimes.
I'm telling you as someone who has been politically involved sense before I could actually vote, and in this year in particular, I have knocked on so many doors csmpaigning and heard more people then i believed I would see who cared about this, but they do.
Trump took 100 million dollars from Marriam Adelson on the premise that Trump would support Israeli resettlement in the West Bank. A violation of Article 49.
Like many other my age, we believed that Israeli had a right to exist. We supported. I had Jewish friends I went to school with that I was close to. I have a number of Jewish friends withing the writng commuity that are here in the states. I hear from them the same thing. We must stop giving Netanyahu money.
People throw the word Antisematism around like throwing candy to children. Antisematism is a real issue. But Antisematism is not about objecting to government policy by Israel that is morally unjestafiable.
Antisematism is what you see with white supremisests. The anti-jews that were at Charlotteville. You the ones Trump said, there are some good people on both sides... The Proud Boys and others that whine that Jews are going to replace the, The same mentality they have for imigrants.
This has gone on longer than I intended, but I have to say what astounds me is that their are people that do not see a problem with Palestanians being walled off from the outside for decades. Or even more so that they believe they can justify 44,000 deaths in less than a year, of people that are no different from you or I. They want to raise their families safely -educate their children - maintain their faith in God and not have to live under the control of any goverbment that they have no say over - that keepse them walled off in a massive outdoor prison.
