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   JNL (jnl@hcommons.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Sep-2024 11:01:37 JST JNL

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   I wonder how different this entire thing might have gone if the entire identity of Palestinian-ness hadn't been successfully made so taboo and the Palestinian people, the ones living in Gaza and to a lesser (but still very significant) degree the West Bank so successfully and near-totally enclosed, that almost no Israelis and almost no Americans actually KNOW any Palestinians.

   It is such a weird thing to have this entire 'debate' 'issue' 'contention' 'politics' play out among deciders who LARGELY DO NOT EVEN KNOW the people they are talking about.

   And then there are a few of us who are not Palestinian but who DO know. Have met. Have held. Have abided with.

   And in the space of all of this it is such a weird thing to be saying, 'No, I *know* people there' and to have that be an EXTREME minority position.

   Making sure you don't know them was step zero.

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     JNL (jnl@hcommons.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Sep-2024 11:01:38 JST JNL

     A friend of a friend was killed in Palestine a couple of days ago near the Jordanian border. She was the head of HEAL Palestine and had two gorgeous tiny kids. Her husband is stuck in North Gaza and can't get to any of them. She was killed by Hamas, it appears, 90 rounds shot into her car, in a case of mistaken identity or a struggle over money, whether she would hand over donations given to her organization.

     I, like ... cannot breathe.

     This entire insanity has to stop. Everyone is desperate. Everyone is terrified. And responding by killing everyone and then moving across a border and killing everyone else, even if complete annihilation of history and population were possible (it isn't, really) just adds more trauma and hate.

     This situation is INTOLERABLE and a ceasefire is the first step needed to begin to move in a new direction. Nothing about any of this is ok.

     If you respond to this post, or any post, to justify genocide I will block you.

     Minoru Saba repeated this.