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Jan 8·edited Jan 8Liked by Elsie Gilmore

Monday is the new Sunday, Elsie. And with the holiday, I don’t really know what day it is.

I appreciate you discussing the war on Gaza in a reasonable and compassionate way. To me it’s simple: if bombs are being dropped on a defenseless and cordoned off civilian population, that’s wrong. I would say it was wrong if it was happening to the Israelis, or any nation state or occupied territory.

October 7 does not justify this. There have now been upwards of 30,000 casualties in Gaza. Not armed combatant casualties but civilians, women and children. I don’t think it’s possible to even fathom the degree of suffering there, with the food shortages and starvation, lack of water, hospitals and infrastructure in ruins.

Israel has one of the most technologically advanced militaries in the world. The US has made sure of that. It is our foothold in the region. The most unbearable part of it to me is that our military industrial complex is profiting from this, and our tax dollars are paying for it.

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