Gaza has been burnt to the ground

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169. Thank you for your reply.

I have repeatedly condemned the actions of the butcherous Hamas, going back well before October 7th, but this level of death and destruction go far beyond anything resembling proportional response.

Besides being half Swedish, and part black, I am also part Sephardic Jew. I also am part Lebanese. I have relatives who sit and dine in a sukkah for Sukkot (tragically the holiday that ended last year on Oct 7th), and I also have relatives who occasionally make the Hajj to Mecca (some all the way from southern Brasil).

I am an atheist, but genetically the ethnic groups on both sides of this titanic struggle, this cauldron of hate, this fire, are part of my bones, my blood, my flesh.

All this death, hate, destruction, fear, sorrow, guilt, and pain in huge part because of the wilful suspension of disbelief that allows (and has allowed for untold millenia) humans to invent, hold close, and worship a god or gods, then erect religions of control around those fictitious beings, and then send, throught history, tens of millions to their ends on this mortal coil.

I do not have a side, other than the side of peaceful coexistence. My side is getting its throat slit, its body burnt to char every day in the Levant.

The same goes for the other war horrorshows in Africa and Asia and Ukraine and Haiti and............