I wish I could cut pieces off of men and cauterize them after

Israel Palestine

It makes me so sad how people are making it seem like any criticism of the actions of Israels government is antisemitism. There are many Jews who are against what Israels government does. There are many Israelis and Palestinians who only want peace in the area. 

My great grandfather was one of 3 in his extended family who survived the Holocaust. He was an Austrian jew and managed to flee with his cousin to England. I don't consider myself very Jewish, no Jewish traditions made it through to my family, they assimilated pretty solidly. But I do look back on that part of our history often. It's a political compass for me, it's a warning tale, a bright yellow sign with a big red skull on it. It's the ultimate evil which comes from a certain line of politics. When people become rats and flies and governments become pest control. 

I'm not very knowledgeable on the history of the region, I don't know much about it further back than the 40s. But what I do see is our history being repeated again, continuing the cycle of violence. 100s of thousand of Palestinian people being talked about like they're 1 inhuman blob that wants to murder and maim. There's money involved and there's fear involved and there are old crazy men who don't want to lose power involved. Food, water, electricity being withheld. Bombs being dropped. It is ethnic cleansing. No, it doesn't look the exact same as what happened to my relatives in the Holocaust but the sentiments and actions are there. 

I'm very sorry to Israelis about the death and violence they were put through a few days ago. And I'm very sorry to Palestinians who have been put through that all the time for decades. So much death. 

I just wanted to write this because it feels like people are using our name and history in vain to serve their purposes. Many people who really do think that Israel is on the right, because of propaganda flowing everywhere. But also many people who only care about protecting jews because Israel is bringing money into their pockets or because it's keeping jews out of their country or because it's hurting arabs in the process.

How can we do this when we have had the same done to us? A country built on death and genocide creating more genocide out of our paranoia 

 This cat is very small and little. And it looks raggedy. It looks like a wet pigeon. It is on a luxurious red fabric, satin, soft, thick. If you swaddled the cat it would be very maternal looking. It would look like baby Jesus.  Pretty cute little thing, like a Honduran white bat which has landed on a rose. Little bony cat looks like it's bones could turn to dust if you press it. Very huge eyes, popping out. It is very skully. Cats have big skulls when they're small, all that's in there is hunting and eating and sleeping and so on. Stage lighting almost, he looks like he's got stage fright.He looks a bit shifty, like he was laying in an alley and someone turned their flashlight on him. Cute soft very rat like. I usually want to pet kittens but I don't feel like I'd like to pet him. Cute cat