kind of depressing, this kind of anti-Israel hate-fest, done by such groups since Israel was founded, has done Palestinians no good at all in all that time. For example "Settler colonial" will be seen as nonsense name-calling by those who know that about 1/2 of Israel's population are refugees from when all Jews were thrown out of the nearby Arab countries or their descendants, and this happened in Jerusalem and the West Bank too when under Arab control 1948-67.
That said, we should all want to stop the carnage in Gaza asap but it takes 2 sides to agree to a cease-fire and Israel won't agree to just let Hamas holds the hostages, and regroup to carry out their stated intent to repeat the savage attack of October 7 over and over in their drive to eliminate the Jewish population there.
I hope I'm wrong, I only read the rally summary, but it seemed to lack a needed vision for peace of how the two peoples can get along, also lacking in Israeli advocacy. I'm waiting for a rally with both Palestinian and Israeli flags that do promote such a vision, based on compromise and reconciliation, the only way to actually improve lives.
But both the Hamas and Netanyahu regimes seem to want to eliminate the populations of the other side, but neither can really accomplish that. I can only hope the US, the world's Jewish and Muslim communities, all peace-loving peoples, and many in Gaza and in Israel can somehow get together and find a way to throw both regimes out of power, simultaneously if possible, and replace them with more moderate forces willing to actually compromise.
Otherwise the fighting, killing, terror, and mutual destruction will continue even if there is a "cease-fire"
kind of depressing, this kind of anti-Israel hate-fest, done by such groups since Israel was founded, has done Palestinians no good at all in all that time. For example "Settler colonial" will be seen as nonsense name-calling by those who know that about 1/2 of Israel's population are refugees from when all Jews were thrown out of the nearby Arab countries or their descendants, and this happened in Jerusalem and the West Bank too when under Arab control 1948-67.
That said, we should all want to stop the carnage in Gaza asap but it takes 2 sides to agree to a cease-fire and Israel won't agree to just let Hamas holds the hostages, and regroup to carry out their stated intent to repeat the savage attack of October 7 over and over in their drive to eliminate the Jewish population there.
I hope I'm wrong, I only read the rally summary, but it seemed to lack a needed vision for peace of how the two peoples can get along, also lacking in Israeli advocacy. I'm waiting for a rally with both Palestinian and Israeli flags that do promote such a vision, based on compromise and reconciliation, the only way to actually improve lives.
But both the Hamas and Netanyahu regimes seem to want to eliminate the populations of the other side, but neither can really accomplish that. I can only hope the US, the world's Jewish and Muslim communities, all peace-loving peoples, and many in Gaza and in Israel can somehow get together and find a way to throw both regimes out of power, simultaneously if possible, and replace them with more moderate forces willing to actually compromise.
Otherwise the fighting, killing, terror, and mutual destruction will continue even if there is a "cease-fire"