This is particularly so for friends and families of Palestinians in Gaza who are being bombed into oblivion by an Israeli government that isn’t even pretending to abide by any international laws or norms, not to mention the record-high 1,100 Palestinians languishing in Israeli prisons without charges; or the comrades and kin of those who were butchered and kidnapped in southern Israel, and the young soldiers who are being fed into the meat grinder, awaiting orders to avenge war crimes by committing war crimes.