I feel obliged to weigh in. I doubt it will do any good. It’s a way to organize my thoughts a bit, or at least to vent. I will regret losing any friends over this, since I have none to spare. Pressing on . . . 1. The Hamas attack deserves unambiguous condemnation. Hamas is a horrible, anti-Semitic, neo-fascist organization. However, any remarks extending this in any non-redundant fashion are subject to instant attacks on grounds of insensitivity, or worse, to the suffering of Jewish innocents.
The first thing I thought Saturday was "this is a Tet offensive," meant to do maximum damage and discredit the "we've almost won" narrative of the other side. The next thing was it's not going to "work" for whatever value of "work" you can come up with. The Israelis are not going away, and provocations just give the eliminationists in Israel more reason to act on their impulse to get rid of Gaza entirely. We'll see if they get their wish.
The first thing I thought Saturday was "this is a Tet offensive," meant to do maximum damage and discredit the "we've almost won" narrative of the other side. The next thing was it's not going to "work" for whatever value of "work" you can come up with. The Israelis are not going away, and provocations just give the eliminationists in Israel more reason to act on their impulse to get rid of Gaza entirely. We'll see if they get their wish.
Agree it will not end well, for anybody. All Hamas has is bad options, so they do bad options.
That’s about where I am, Max, except I never rejoined DSA after considering it. I didn’t want to deal with people like this.
I know you say there is renewed chatter about 2-state solutions and will talk about it soon, but where is this chatter? Links?
I just meant in general, online. No specific, momentous texts come to mind.