Making Gaza Unlivable: Israel Intensifies Attacks as Netanyahu Vows to Seize All of Gaza

[AloeVera]

5. I don't disagree with you.

In fact I agree with most of what you say. Trump is worse on Gaza and of course everything else. But that's not the whole story.

The thing is when people don't believe something can get ANY worse, they blame the people in charge and opt for the other guy who promises to make it better. Because they've lost faith in the people in charge. Compound that with the emotions engendered by loss of family, tribe or faith members, the sight of the carnage or the offense to an innate sense of justice and morality taking precedence over all else- people in these situations should not be expected to make rational choices. We should have know that and at least done some gaming out on the consequences. Because, as you say, choices have consequences too, as well as elections.

They were under emotional duress and also given an impossible choice and expected to make the right one. They failed and now are blamed because they haven't met our expectations. But it was our expectations that were wrong. We gave them nothing. Now we are outraged. We shouldn't be. We created this.

We should instead, imo, think about what we could have done differently. Take our lumps, so to speak.

Not a popular opinion here. Thanks for being civil and thoughtful. It gave me the opportunity to say what's been on my mind for awhile.

I really dislike FAFO though in most circumstances. It seems devoid of empathy, even a negation of it and screams schadenfreude to me when applied to Gaza. And it allows people to focus on the wrong thing, and not the immoral and criminal actions of Trump and Israel and the unbearable suffering. Even though stopping it seems hopeless now, we must persist. Imo.