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When we honor the 911 dead, I think of the 1000s of Chilean civilians who murdered in the 911 there in part by the Nixon admin. We helped kill those people but have erased the memory. A girl I knew in highschool died on a floor above the plane. It doesn't dishonor her to recall the dead in Chile.

It isn't a sorry for your loss but. It's remember and mourn all the dead associated with the event including those that came before and after--because it is all one on-going tragedy.

Don't you mean "candidate" Hochul? Bailing out the NYC budget this spring with NYS taxpayer funds probably isn't sitting well with the voters outside of NYC.

The sheer insulting nonsense of these pricks who think "bibi may've let Hamas slaughter his own people" thus means "now you're not allowed to talk about your people getting slaughtered"

Maybe that the Mayor can’t explictly come out & say that - so he said the other - while your comment makes you appear, to some, to be siding with Netanyahu, Charles. Not telling you how to feel. Just noting you seem unusually upset today, so just trying to warn you that’s how you’re coming off…

… And agreed - Netanyahu is a POS, as is his govt. Hoping the people of Israel don’t make the same kind of stupid mistake as Brazil, or as the U.S. two years ago. Fingers crossed for a better govt. from Israel’s elections.

Do. Not. Tell. Jewish people how to feel, Shawn. You're a condescending, arrogant smug ass who thinks he has the right to gatekeep what other people post and feel.

Why would he talk about the invasion of a secular Baathist dictatorship in Iraq because of the anniversary of an attack by a Saudi Arabian Wahhabist terrorist sheltered in Afghanistan and Pakistan?

There's 364 other days of the year that he could criticize the Israeli *response* to Oct. 7th, some of which I would actually agree with. But choosing to do so ON Oct. 7th is pretty offensive. At least he publicly admitted that Hamas committed "horrific war crimes," anyway, so there's that.

One can smile and smile. But the dashing young man is simply pursuing a long term project of the “new left” that stretches back decades. Thanks to Bibi and Ben Gvir they smell victory.

Agreed. It also ignores that many don't agree with the netanyahu regime. I think of those people today. I think of those who lived and will never be the same because of the trauma. I also think of those who died either on 10/7 or were later killed by hamas. TBC.

Unless there's a much larger cultural change, simply changing the leaders won't do jack. *sigh* The statement also ignores some who want the 2 state solution.

like, they fired rockets into Israel to such an extent they spent billions of dollars to build a massive rocket interception system. where does the think all of those rockets were dropping? Curious stuff like that is left out of the Hamas paragraph.

My own preference is to focus on the things he does say -- Oct 7th constituted "horrific war crimes," and that Hamas committed them -- that the activist circles he comes from VEHEMENTLY disagree with.

Israel hasn't had a liberal prime minister in 25 years. You say they don't have voter suppression so they must have a bigoted electorate. An entire country of Idaho Republicans

You defense against “Israel’s electorate is extremely right wing and keeps voting for right wingers” is “Netanyahu is too moderate for many Israelis, so he has had to team up with even more extreme right-wingers to get a majority”???

People understand the idea of "read the room" in many other topics but seem completely blind to it when it comes to Israel. It's concerning

Well I liked his statement. I thought it honored victims both in Israel and Palestine and it recognized the worth of every human being. It'd be nice to commemorate the victims of our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq too, but I don't hold it against him since both occupations have been over for years

certainly if you feel israel's actions were justified, you're going to take offense to his statement. But since the majority of the country agree with him, they don't find anything wrong with it

its really telling how quickly he brushes past Oct 7th, and indeed offers no details or "color" no mention of sexual violence or sadism, but we can just kinda make up a vivid example of Israeli violence rather telling for who in this statement are real real people and who aren't.