hearing different voices

I think people are sick if they think they can bring about a better result for Israel and Palestinians, by not voting for Harris. 

Trump would undoubtedly align with the far right Benjamin Netanyahu, with whom it's suspected that he violated the Logan Act, add that to his criminal tab of seemingly endless law breaking and potential law breaking and suspected law breaking.

The Palestinians-Americans frustration at not getting more traction with the Democratic party, could be seen as the party just not wanting to take on this fight now. They're trying to consolidate power behind Harris in the quick election drive to November. 

I'm not sure they couldn't allow for 2 speeches, one by a Palestinian and one by someone who defends the Israeli side. Just to say we recognize the issues that exist and we give it free expression. We're not so uptight about conflict and dissension within our own party. Heck it might have drawn more eyeballs, but of course it's a no win situation, so it also could have been damaging and risky. I'm sure that's why it didn't make it. Make a speech outside the convention if you like. And that's what someone did. Here is one. The war rages here in America no matter what image the Democratic party wants to put forward.

I'm almost scared to write about it. I imagine hundreds of critics in the wings ready to pounce on every inexactitude and notion. I wrote about it when it happened. I wasn't lynched for trying to see both sides.

Like the situation, I'm of two minds.

I can see why Israel wants to snuff out Hamas from it's own territory. With Hezbollah lobbing bombs from Lebanon, Iran lobbing bombs from their country, and bombs coming from Jordan from the PLO, that they would at least feel like they could eliminate the threat inside the country that is lobbing bombs on the people of Israel, including Palestinians, Bedouins, and Jewish Israeli. They have an intense desire to defend a country where being Jewish can't be a problem, after suffering from so much persecution in other countries. 

If 6 million Jews were murdered during WW2, leaving 11 million left, you could see how a race of historic people would want to perhaps make sure no more were murdered. The bullied becomes a bully, and unleashed in this situation. That's the horrible Hamas calculation, to paint Israel as unreasonable, but who could get over the bombing? Why should Israel just take it? (The answer is genocide is not really indicated, just be more careful to get the Hamas people, of which there can't be that many left.)

I have read about how they are taking great pains to reduce the number of civilian casualties. I'm not sure that isn't just portraying one side, because there's other information about innocent people being killed, and journalist being killed. 

Outside the two state or one state solution debate, the rejection by Yasser Arafat of peace in 2002, there is also the larger context of the desire to disrupt peace by those who gain from war, even losing war. The axis of western democracies is broken up by Russia, even if it can't win the war in Ukraine. Making war stops their fears of Nato encircling Russia, their worst fears. Iran is happy to disrupt the region with their vision of what the world should look like. So in that context, waging a losing war was a win for Hamas because now Israel is painted as a brutal and horrible regime, not the one democracy in the region. 

Israel and Saudi Arabia were looking towards regularizing diplomatic relations when this war broke out, and of course that has been put on hold indefinitely. So while I can't fully parse how people win by waging a losing war, I see how the disruption could profit some. 

On the other hand, innocent people are dying and as a human being, I can't abide it. Whatever mishegas Israel puts forward to justify Gaza Palestinian genocide, well, you can't actually justify genocide. It doesn't matter how uppity and difficult a minority is. You have to take responsibility for this situation. Try waging peace more. 

The failure to bring into the fold people in the peace process is Israel's, even with Yasser Arafat's failure to find peace. Palestinians need to be more peaceful, and Israel needs to cultivate that in the community by developing it. That is if there are any left.