The United Nations on Monday clarified that the overall number of fatalities in Gaza tallied by the Ministry of Health

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6. Bodycounts are gruesome. They tried that in Vietnam. I won't play that game.

Obviously, war is wrong. One can be both anti-war, and realistic about the reality of war.

Most people are anti-war.

In fact, 90% of people are decent 90% of the time. And those other 10%s aren't black-and-white. Nothing is black and white. It's not even shades of gray. It's full fucking color, 4-D reality.

Netanyahoo needs to go. Israel is a democracy, so that's possible. It's possible for the right-wingers to be defeated. But they also thrive in times of strife, feeding on the chaos, and feeding it.

You know who else is a right-winger? HAMAS. And they also thrive in times of strife.

The difference may be summed in one word: DEMOCRACY:

* It's possible to get rid of Netanyahoo and his theocratic agenda, via peaceful transfer of power.
* After they were "elected" by violently ejecting Jews and the PA from Gaza, Hamas will never give up power to the Palestinian Authority.

I don't need bumper sticker slogans. And I don't need body counts. I need historical context.

And there's a fuck-ton of people who need it more than me.