Ken Burch
1 min readAug 27, 2024

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The response you gave above was devoid of humanity. How can you think it is decent to ask if sending in human beings to find bombs is more effective at finding bombs then sending in bombs? How can it be anything but inhumane to treat the lives of those human beings as if they are of no value?

And how can you be incapable of seeing that the way the Israeli government treats Palestinians in doing things like this- things that essentially argue that no Palestinian is an innocent civilian and that, essentially, no Palestinian deserves to live- are steps on the path that another country walked down in the 1930s? That any country which starts with dehumanization ultimately gets closer and closer to choosing extermination?

What good is the existence of any country, anywhere, if it goes down this path?

Can a country retain any humanity, any decency, any morality at all- and I often ask this of my OWN country- if it decides that anything is permissible so long as it's called "self-defence"?

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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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