Oh gosh! So many thoughts. But I’ll spare the reader and offer just a few. Imagine with me how the history and current racial climate of the United States of America and Canada would have been if the Native American peoples fought with the same degree of tenacity against Europeans like the Palestinians have been doing against the occupying Jews in Palestine.

The British (along with many of the powerful empires of yesteryear) cavalierly entered many foreign lands and did as they wished with the peoples and cultures that they found living in these various places. But this one spot in the Middle East was different. Palestine had a history that was very different than other colonial acquisitions. A cursory review of history might have caused a sensible empire to tread carefully around this land mine.

But no, empire building, questionable Christian eschatology, and a strong dose of self-superiority allowed them to plow right past all the guard rails. The British with the help of the League of Nations created this situation. They should not have been allowed to simply walk away after 1948.

And finally, let’s stop pretending that peace is possible with the long list of cease fires and accords they’ve been tossing at the problem. Haven’t we seen enough of these already? These things are mere window dressings that don’t directly address the core of the matters that Mr Levy is stating!

And Instead of asking why I’m not fully supporting the Jews in Israel; please, for one minute, try and see where the atrocities of the Hamas attack stems from. As humans, atrocities and the need to correct, avenge, and prevent them can blind us the root which causes them in the first place. We can support, weep with, and defend Israel, while at the same time look deeply into the disease which refuses to be healed because it’s never directly addressed.

Responding to symptomatic flare-ups is not good medical practice and we’ve been negligible physicians.