Older generations like myself see Israel as a wonderful and needed country for Jews, to be safe after the unimaginable horror of WWII and the holocaust. And we are stunned by the raging antisemitism in this country, and in the world after the attack in October
Younger generations have no real memory or reality of WWII or the Holocaust. All they have seen of Israel is the rule of the right wing extremist, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his right wing extremists treating 6 million Palestinians in their small country the way American racists treated blacks in the Jim Crow era.
The generation between us saw an Israel with a conflict between right wing extremists and left wing peacekeepers. They saw legitimate efforts by Israelis to come up with a two state solution that long ago disappeared with Netanyahu and Palestinian refusals
The savagery of Hamas was incomprehensible. And the heartless slaughter of Palestinian civilians, frankly, seems too terrible to endure.
How do you make peace with people whose only goal is to kill you?
The only future that does not include heartless slaughter is a two state solution. That has never changed
But when both sides think only of coming up with the best reason to kill the other side, the obvious peaceful solution never comes
It looks to me like Israel is doing a better job of destroying itself than it is of destroying Hamas - just horrible to watch this happening .
