Gaza is Breaking our Minds

I left the government in 2020 for the cushy life of an academic and I had thought I had left the unpleasant images of my previous career behind. That is until 7 OCT 2023. The atrocities committed by Hamas in the name of resistance unleashed a hell on Gaza and its people that are reminiscent of the worst of the Syrian Civil War (as evidenced in the juxtaposed images of Gaza and Syria below). Each day new images of bombed out cities, lifeless bodies, and child amputees, and now starving civilians flood my social media feeds (probably as the result of carefully curated algorithms). These images are often followed by Israeli officials and pundits justifying their actions claiming there are no innocents in Gaza, or referring to Palestinians as animals, and even justifying the legitimacy of rape in war. To put it bluntly, Israel has come to resemble in many respect the Assad regime in Syria.