Morning, CoSo. 🕊️
Today, I summarize some key regional context and ways to think about the news you're seeing about the violence in Israel and Gaza. Hamas, Iran, political spin, Palestinian struggle with local authorities, Israeli internal politics swept aside by these attacks...
It's titled, simply, "War, again", because there is enough gamified media whenever the world falls apart.
The main goal is to retain the better parts of our humanity every single time it does.
That last sentence: "What haunts about this reference is the twinned understanding that there can be no retaliation that will ever make up for all the atrocity already done… and also, a commitment to letting the world fall to ruin, if it cannot offer the justice that we seek." 💔
I'm not Israeli or Jewish, and I wanted retaliation and reducing Gaza to rubble or less. I also wanted retaliation after 9/11. It is human nature.
Not saying I'm right, just observing my reaction.
@MLClark I'm also not saying I'm wrong.
I don't know what I am.
Knowing ourselves, naming the wounds, and recognizing our shared humanity in the wounds is some of the most powerful work we can do in this incredibly cruel world.
Thank you for sharing your self-knowledge. The fury that you feel, the helplessness, the desire to let it all burn... these reactions are shared by many others.
You are not "wrong" to feel what you need to feel, & you are no less "good" for being moved to such despair.
You are here. Trying.
That's all you need to be. 🫂