Cara Mendelsohn is wearing an IDF shirt to city council today

This is not meant to condone the actions of Hamas. But it is stupid to portray everything in black and white all the time, as if it’s either break all the laws and agreements they’ve ever made or be forced into exile. This always reminds me of the Ricky gervais bit about the obese guy who eats ten cheeseburgers a day but just can’t figure out what he’s doing wrong. “Have you tried nine cheeseburgers?” The current Israeli government is extremely right wing and has been for a long time. When they have had progressive government that actually accomplished anything at the table, their leader was assassinated by the extreme right. They very purposefully do not observe any of the accords. They are committing violations of international law literally without rest. Netanyahu has failed miserably in his right wing strong man approach and has done more than his part to create Hamas. Quite literally, look it up. So…maybe they can start by stopping the ongoing illegal settlements? They have the entire Negev but need to cut into what little Palestinian land was agreed upon, and we can’t imagine why there is ongoing and worsening conflict? These people have nothing, yet they have less than that each year. They have no autonomy, no economy, no recourse, and no physical way out. Just suffer or die or both. So this vicious cycle continues, where the most extreme on each side commit atrocities against each other and it’s the innocent who suffer on both sides. This moral clarity shit makes me cringe every time I hear it.