Hamas admits 72% of deaths are combat-aged men as it quietly reduces civilian death toll - report

[AloeVera]

43. All the more reason to believe my outrage and anger are real and not "performative" - no?

Long-held views about Israel's mistreatment of Palestinians and sympathy for their plight of course feeds into my outrage. Perhaps makes me more outraged and angry. But I held the same outrage and anger at the U.S. for what it did to Iraq. Shock-and-awe was the most inhumane thing I had seen up to that point. Just like now with Palestinians, many Americans didn't care much for innocent Iraqis and wildly cheered on that slaughter. In fact, going back to the first Iraq war, I remember being horrified by what the U.S. did to Iraqi soldiers on the "Highway of Death". Yet I had no "beef" with the U.S. prior - though that's changed now of course.

So my point stands. It's the indiscriminate slaughter of innocents that is the catalyst for my anger and outrage - regardless of who is doing the slaughtering or what kind of society it is. You can believe that or not, it matters only that I know it to be true.

That's it for tonight and for this thread.