Ken Burch
1 min readMar 10, 2024

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Not true. The issue isn't having Jews around- it is living under the perpetual subjugation of the IDF. You don't have to be a bigot to object to being treated as ordinary Palestinians have been treated under the post-1967 Occupation and under the Siege Israel has kept Gaza under since the early part of this century.

You would resist that treatment, if it was inflicted on you. You would resist any regime, run by anyone, who punished your entire community for the actions of a violent few, actions you and your family have no means of control or stop.

I despise Hamas. I despise the Israeli Right and Center. They are morally equivalent and equally committed to a dystopian, anti-peace future in which they will never acknowledge any wrongs have been done to ordinary Palestinians or that anything has to be done to heal the wounds the process of creating Israel has inflicted on them.

Stop sounding like the ones you're sounding like- the ones who said things like you're saying about Palestinians about your ancestors for two milennia in Europe. Why lower yourself to that?

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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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