As I've been noting since early 2023, Israelis have been in one hell of a fight with their gov't for a while. The Times of Israel has been reporting on the protest tonight & the planned labour action tomorrow; the live-blog commentary notes that Israeli press knows it's US Republicans pushing for more war, along with Israel's own far-right, even against warnings from within.
Fighting for global democracy means not giving into the lie that war breeds peace.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-september-1-2024/
Hear hear, JR.
If any lessons come out of this (learned on the blood of so many though they may be), I sorely hope that all our recent nightmares with far-right nationalism will finally bring us to think holistically and proactively about major improvements to our democracies and societies.
We need to push back on far-right extremism in all its forms, but that only works when we remember our global citizenship, and use it to guide local praxis--one small, fierce light at a time.
@MLClark Funny thing that. Even increasing darkness may make light less effective but it will not extinguish it. Yet any amount of light does and can extinguish darkness.
Darkness and light are much like war and peace.