attaches itself to an otherwise well-organized and thriving society and tells everyone that they are the essential ingredient that makes it all work. They seek to expand until they can take over and kill the host and replace it with their twisted patriarchal ponzi scheme, kind of like Ridley Scott's Alien, or the Borg in Star Trek. Religion is a vicious alien invasion, in my book.

which is really the fear of death is the element in the human psyche that opens the door to the creation of God to alleviate the fear. Well crafted fiction used to manipulate and exploit others.

I’ve been heartbroken and disgusted too. I have donated to a vetted charity. I also send intentions for peace. I saw a protest by young Israeli citizens . Not only is the World letting Netanyahu kill children daily. But,we are funding this with our taxes.

Republicans don’t care about people . They are madman who thrive on sadism, cruelty , and suffering.

The USA is now a fascist state. We protect, we send letters AND nothing.

Genocide is OK if you kill people that the oligarchs want eliminated.

Saudi, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, etc. are RICH. They need to get involved in a peace plan. The US is no longer credible.

May we live to see better days.

Thank you so much for your time and thoughts needed to write something this clear and not designed to start another fight.
Your post makes me want to cry because it speaks to the heart of the tragedy instead of the intractable emotions.

Like Trump, he should be behind bars.

make it threesome add Putin too.

along with a link to WHO's press release.

The genocide in Gaza is no better than the Crimes Against Humanity right here in the USA.

It is tiresome to learn of atrocities, injustices, the murder of innocents, the destruction of families, the incessant cruelty and barbarity, day in and day out. But I think it's important to remember that they WANT us exhausted, emotionally bankrupt, in despair and terror, so they can control us. So they can continue their abominations unimpeded.

So it is important to stay informed. It's important to continue caring. Self care is also important, and after I hit post I'm gonna turn on the youtube, watch poker or true crime, and play games on my iPad until I pass out. Not that my dreams are always rosy these days

https://www.who.int/news/item/21-07-2025-who-operations-compromised-following-attacks-on-warehouse-and-facility-sheltering-staff-and-families-in-deir-al-balah

This news came to me today on the heels of the expose by the Guardian about atrocious conditions in Miami FL. The headline alone is just a portion of the crimes being committed in this hellhole; as my sign for last Thursday's Good Trouble stated, "in our name" "on our dime"

even the genocide in Gaza is financed by our tax dollars. It is heartbreaking true but I am also outraged. Righteously!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/21/migrants-miami-ice-jail-abuses

Since it would be futile on my part to express my self as well as you have, I hope you don't mind if I sign on to your statement, not as my own but in admiration of your eloquence which I lack, to express what I too think and feel.
Be well

I was born after the war, a white, catholic boy. I grew up in the 50s and 60s believing in the right of Israel against the rights of the "Arabs".

I read Leon Uris' "Exodus" and James Michener's "The Source", and, later, Herman Wouk's "The Winds of War" and "War and Remembrance". I felt those books and their stories strongly.

Driven by the guilt over the United States' complacency during the early period of the Holocaust I rejoiced in Israel's triumph in the Six Day War of '67 and was relieved after the Yom Kipper War in '73 ended.

However, as early as the 80s, cracks in the images, the propaganda, and the narrative began to show. The continuing terrorist attacks justified Israel but the actual plight of the Palestine people did not.

Now I live in a quandary wishing the U.S. had some solution, some hope, and some actual influence. But "we the people" do not. The constant wars have bored us. We cannot focus, we don't want to hear about it, we want some "magical" event to come about.

What? The Rapture? Armageddon? A final solution? We don't know.

Today both sides are represented by a violent, aggressive, single minded minority with the majority trapped in the middle. The U.S. is dominated by a corrupt, venal, ignorant administration with no plans, no concepts, and no desired for any of this to end.

We are as helpless as the peoples of both Israel and Palestine.

I tried to speak with local Gaza activists about this last year, but all they would do was blame Israel and the U.S. for what's going on. You would have thought Hamas didn't even exist.

Yes, I want peace for the entire region and I want the people of Gaza to rebuild their society--a society that includes rights for all residents and hope for a brighter future.

Reasoned discussion is difficult when there is wrong on both sides and both sides are convinced that they are right.

I too am left with only heartbreak.

But at 70 years of age, I don't have the energy to sustain it or act on it in any useful way.

So I settle into heartbreak, for all the innocent men and women and children in Gaza who have been killed, for the medical workers who have been shot down, for the babies who are dying of starvation, and on and on.

There is no way to justify this carnage. I'd like to say it will be a haunting chapter of history like the Holocaust is, but I fear it won't ever be in the past, that it will never be resolved.

But as bad as I feel for them unless we find a way to get this country back all the outrage in the world will amount to nothing. Plus alot of Palestinian supporters didnt exactly help them with protest votes and not voting. So again sorry I have to worry about us first before i can be worried about helping anyone else.

I feel among friends that Mirror all my emotions.
Religion has welcomed evil for power, of evil has sucked in religion, for power. Either way, Evil is in full control, and innocents die by the masses. Freakin little girls at Jesus camp. No God in sight to protect the followers that get killed as sacrificial casualties, as the cost of Freedom or profit.
And the Jesus Con people, are raking in trillions.
Count Moses Mike as the spokes person for Jesus Cons.