Ken Burch
1 min readMar 8, 2024

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What happened on October 7th isn't the only thing that matters. What Hamas did that day was wrong, but the Israeli side in this conflict has done many things just as loathesome to innocent Palestinians, so it had no claim to any righteousness and none of this would be happening if Netsnyahu and his anti-peace, anti-justice political allies hadn't devoted their entire careers to the unattainable and pointless objective of making Palestinians surrender without getting anything bur humiliation, subjugation.

Any claim to morality on Israel's part ender forever when the IDF bombed and fired on the innocent Gaza civilians who were guilty of nothing but trying to reach the food supplies dropped on them, and when white phosphorus was dropped on Gaza civilians

There is a limit.

Nothing like that can ever be called "self-defense".

Nothing decent can come of a massacre in Rafah.

And no one can ever be crushed into peace.

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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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