It Is NOT A Matter Of Perspective And Other Things I Have To Say

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I am lying on my back, outside in the sun, and my dog comes over and makes himself comfortable on my stomach. Just sits himself down. “This is a photo op,” I think. And grab my phone just in time to capture this. My dog. From a different perspective.
 
There are many things like this. Things that we can look at in many different ways. Things that we can consider from many different perspectives.
 
2.
 
What Hamas has done to the Israeli people is not one of these types of things that have more than one perspective.  There is only one perspective here.  
 
This is very important, what I am saying here. That there is only one perspective. This is very important as a Jewish person in this world. As a woman in this world. As a human in this world. 
 
What Hamas has done to the Israeli people is not a matter of perspective. There is only one perspective.
 
Hamas terrorists raped children and elderly woman until their pelvises broke.  A baby was cut out of a pregnant woman and beheaded, and then the mother was beheaded. Women and children were burned to charcoal. Bodies have been found without recognizable facial features because they were shot at such close range.  Bodies have missing hands, feet, legs, genitals.  
 
If you cannot unequivocally condemn rape, beheading, and torture of innocent people… if you, even just for one moment, consider that there may be another perspective that could justify even a bit of this... you have lost your humanity. 
 
3.   
 
Israel is not at war with the Palestinians. She is at war with terrorist groups that murder Jews in the name of Palestinian rights. She is at war with terrorists. Hamas is a terrorist organization.  Hezbollah is a terrorist organization. Just like Isis. Just like al Qaeda. These are terrorists. 
 
When terrorists attacked our country in 2001, look what we did. Why is it not ok for Israel to defend themselves from a terrorist attack? Why, when they defend themselves, are Israelis held to a standard that no one else on this planet would be held to when they are brutally attacked by a terrorist organization. 
 
This is anti-Semitism.  
 
When the US was attacked in 2001, people celebrated this and danced in the streets. And we condemned them. Why do you not condemn those that now celebrate the kidnapping of children? The beheading of babies? The terrorist attack on the soil of another country. People are applauding this all over the world. People applaud this in America.  People in this country are chanting “from the river to the sea.” In this country. Do you know what this means? This means cleanse the land of Jews. This is what this means. 
 
This is anti-Semitism. This is hatred of Jews. 
 
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Just throwing this out here again for those who still wonder. The bombing of the Hospital in Gaza was not perpetuated by Israel. Hamas said it was Israel because it supports their narrative. When statements are released by terrorist organizations, perhaps questioning their authenticity should be the first step in deciphering the information. 
 
And why, when the world considered that it might be Israel, was it all over the news, and now that we know it was not Israel… it’s not news anymore…
 
Ok.
 
5.
 
The tell-tale sign of genocide is a specific population in decline because they are the target of extermination. 
 
In 1939 there were 18 million Jews in the world. In 1945, at the end of WW2 there were 12 million Jews in the world. 
This is a genocide.
 
In 1915 there were approximately 1.5 million Armenians living in the multiethnic Ottoman Empire. At the end of 1916 there were between 300,000 and 836,000 Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire.
This is a genocide.
 
In 1975 there were 7.8 million Cambodians living in Cambodian.  In 1979, at the end of the Khmer Rouge regime, there were 5.8 million Cambodians living in Cambodia.
This is a genocide.
 
In 2003 there were 1 million Palestinians in Gaza. In 2023 there are 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza. 
This is NOT a genocide.
 
Please do not redefine a word to fit your narrative.
 
6. 
 
If you read this and assume for an instant that I do not have deep compassion for, and deep support of, the Palestinian people, you have misread the entirety of this writing.
 
7.
 
To be Jewish is very important to me.