Thank you for this! I could not agree more and yet some of us have not been public in our statements in order to not make things worse. You have given us words that we can share.
Just home from two weeks in Ireland, revisiting sites left behind by my late grandfather (at age 35, a political moderate amidst the Rising) in the same year WBY wrote 2nd Coming. History’s repetitions grow more wearisome, continuing to be destructive, until we “reclaim the center” and hold it precious!
Mr. Wallis: I'm a long time supporter of Sojourners. Please read Chris Hedges on Israel's deceit .Israel’s Culture of Deceit
Israel, which always seeks to blame Palestinians for the atrocities it carries out, is the least trustworthy source about the bombing of the hospital in Gaza.
"I.... srael’s atrocities against the Palestinians are always greeted with lies. I heard them. I recorded them. I published them in my stories for The New York Times when I was the paper’s Middle East Bureau Chief.
I covered war for two decades, including seven years in the Middle East. I learned quite a bit about the size and lethality of explosive devices. There is nothing in the arsenal of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) that could have replicated the massive explosive power of the missile that killed an estimated 500 civilians in the al-Ahli Arab Christian hospital in Gaza. Nothing. If Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad had these kinds of missiles, huge buildings in Israel would be rubble with hundreds of dead. They don’t. ...."
Yeats’ poem has been on my mind a lot over the past week. He wrote it in 1919 and its salience just keeps coming around again over and over.
Thank you for this! I could not agree more and yet some of us have not been public in our statements in order to not make things worse. You have given us words that we can share.
Just home from two weeks in Ireland, revisiting sites left behind by my late grandfather (at age 35, a political moderate amidst the Rising) in the same year WBY wrote 2nd Coming. History’s repetitions grow more wearisome, continuing to be destructive, until we “reclaim the center” and hold it precious!
I appreciate the moderate and caring comments, so unlike most of what I see and hear.
Mr. Wallis: I'm a long time supporter of Sojourners. Please read Chris Hedges on Israel's deceit .Israel’s Culture of Deceit
Israel, which always seeks to blame Palestinians for the atrocities it carries out, is the least trustworthy source about the bombing of the hospital in Gaza.
CHRIS HEDGES
OCT 18, 2023
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/israels-culture-of-deceit?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=778851&post_id=138087465&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=3hfgy&utm_medium=email
"I.... srael’s atrocities against the Palestinians are always greeted with lies. I heard them. I recorded them. I published them in my stories for The New York Times when I was the paper’s Middle East Bureau Chief.
I covered war for two decades, including seven years in the Middle East. I learned quite a bit about the size and lethality of explosive devices. There is nothing in the arsenal of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) that could have replicated the massive explosive power of the missile that killed an estimated 500 civilians in the al-Ahli Arab Christian hospital in Gaza. Nothing. If Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad had these kinds of missiles, huge buildings in Israel would be rubble with hundreds of dead. They don’t. ...."