Today is the one-year anniversary of the brutal Hamas terrorist attack on Israeli civilians and the subsequent Israeli invasion and utter devastation of Gaza where a disproportionate number of Palestinians, many of them children, have been lost as “collateral damage,” as they say in the inhuman parlance of military operations. This last year has been a long and divisive one, not just in the Middle East but domestically as American support for Israel has fostered a protest movement and a fierce reaction to it that has only deepened entrenched divisions as events have unfolded.
This election has for me a terrible louring of Deja-vu. 1968--Hubert Humphrey simply would not come out against the Vietnam War. No matter his domestic policies, so I voted for Eugene McCarthy.
We got Nixon.
I'm not going to maker the same voting mistake again, but the sense of being unheard in the face of slaughter is back big time. I just hope that those who decry the administration's support of this war can hold their noses and vote, because if "let Nixon win," was bad, in comparison "let trump win" is a Cat 5 to a simple thunderstorm.
I have always wanted to support Israel, but their wanton killing in Gaza and now in Lebanon are a bridge to far for me.
This election has for me a terrible louring of Deja-vu. 1968--Hubert Humphrey simply would not come out against the Vietnam War. No matter his domestic policies, so I voted for Eugene McCarthy.
We got Nixon.
I'm not going to maker the same voting mistake again, but the sense of being unheard in the face of slaughter is back big time. I just hope that those who decry the administration's support of this war can hold their noses and vote, because if "let Nixon win," was bad, in comparison "let trump win" is a Cat 5 to a simple thunderstorm.