Your murder story is confusing. I don't think anything about Israel's murderous brutality needs a prelude.

I don't think people are indifferent to this; we're seeing several trends coming together in the worst way.

1) 𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐞 Atrocities everywhere, Trump grabbing the news cycle, people are exhausted, mass shootings. We live in a fucking slaughterhouse and take refuge in entertainment.

2) 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐖𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 Making value judgments is what the religious right does. We don't want to be like them, do we? Everything is subjective, isn't it? Besides, their neighbors hate them (I can't imagine why) and, as GWB recited so many times, Izrl hazzarat to DEFENN isself, doesn't it?

3) 𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 "I'm a conservative, therefore I unreservedly support Israel." "I'm "woke so I unreservedly suppport the Palestinians" Neither giving a moment's thought to what they're endorsing. Aside: I've known both at Microsoft and elsewhere; some Israelis are fine people, most are arrogant shits I wouldn't throw a life preserver to. Most Muslims I've known were such polite and gracious people that I felt like an asshole. Some are cold and distant to others not of their faith. I'll take the Muslims. And the worst I have heard about Israel comes from friends who live there or who visited.

I could name others. I've followed Netanyahu over half my life, and he's on my top five list of People Who Need Their Heads Ventilated. He is a monstrously bad man, and the settlers who control the government deserve a Holocaust like my great-grandparents died in.

Personal: my sister, whom I have never been close to despite years of attempts, has decided that since three of our grandparents were unobservant Jews that she is now Jewish, taking the ceremonies of conversion (though for reasons unknown to me, I am not supposed to call it that). She doesn't believe in God any more than I do, it's just her newest clique. She's always been about cliques.

In my mind, even opposing Trump personally but voting Republican means endorsing the destruction of the natural kingdom and the destruction of democracy; to become a Jew at this time is tantamount to taking the limbs off a Palestinian child. She is dead to me now. Whichever us us survives the other will not be attending the other's funeral.

Sad, but at 70 most people unclutter their lives of people who are not helping, Bye, Liz, thanks a lot mocking my stutter in front of your clique in high school. Move to the West Bank and fuck off.