Ken Burch
Aug 28, 2024

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I don't want Israel to disappear- I support its existence within the areas it has the right to exist- the pre-1967 lines, and not the West Bank or Gaza.

I want collective punishment of ALL Palestinians for the crimes of the violent few to end.

I want the collective dehumanization and slander of all Palestinians- and the endless repetition of the false claim that the Palestinian cause is driven solely by antisemitism to end.

I want the teaching, by Israeli schools, of the toxic lie that everyone else in the world wants all Jews dead to end- that teaching does nothing but to raise children in a culture of trauma for the sake of raising them in a culture of trauma.

Israel doesn't need to do any of those things to be "secure"- and doing those things has never made it secure.

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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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