Ken Burch
2 min readMar 25, 2024

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All right, then.

Let me phrase it this way:

Your essays and posts, since October 7- a day whose events I agree with you were monstrous and indefensible and should never have happened- have been a massive, unrelenting, collective insult directed at tens of millions of people of conscience throughout the world.

Over and over and over again, and with no justification whatsoever, you have equated ANY disagreement with with Israel's unending and increasingly brutal invasion of Gaza- an invasion in which the vast majority of the dead are innocent Gaza civilians, about half of who are children, an invasion where the deliberate IDF practice of blocking food supplied and in some cases shooting people simply for approaching food aid trucks- is now considered likely to cause a famine- with "hatred of Jews'

The entire premise of the article we are now discussing is the barbaric, indefensible lie that the world- and you know perfectly well that this assertion is an absurdly indefensible untruth- was collectively cheering Hamas on on October 7th and collectively wants all Jews dead.

That assertion is not untrue, it is comprehensively untrue.

The world doesn't despise Jews or want them extinct or want them harmed in any way at all.

The world doesn't even want ISRAELIS harmed.

All most of the world wants is the collective persecution and oppression Palestinians and Gazans have endlessly experienced since 1967 brought to an end, for Palestinian self-determination to be recognized - we both know there can't be peace and normalization in the region- which can easily be achieved without Israeli security being compromised in the slighest- and for the assumption that Palestinians and Arabs are incapable of being anything but Jew-hating berserkers to be cast away as the destructive, paranoid nonsense that it is.

And for the useless demands for surrender to be abandoned. Nobody ever surrenders in the Middle East, so what's the point in demanding something that can't happen?

And why accuse everyone else on the planet of hating you and wanting you dead when you know full well we don't? What is the purpose of such a futile, nihilistic form of discourse?

Where can it lead you?

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Ken Burch
Ken Burch

Written by Ken Burch

Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.

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