Larry, I understand that you are not in a normal place, and lack ability to understand how normal, healthy people with integrity and character interact and make decisions.

Even with the worst possible verbal comments by any person in Gaza about "Jews" do not equal bombs to hospitals and schools, drone bombing of ambulances, killings of journalists & poets, etc. These comments also do not justify or make the comments made to me "right".

I am multilingual and work internationally. Israelis may not realize the extreme damage the attacks on Gaza and their online behavior / persecution / extreme actions against those who oppose the Genocide have had on Israel's reputation. My father was a Jew and I experienced anti-Semitic prejudice AND anti-Gentile prejudice. I was favorable to Israel and believed for almost my whole life that there were dangerous, evil terrorists attacking Israel, which represented a home for displaced survivors of the WW2 Holocaust. Now, thanks to what has been done post October 7, I know so much more about the history and I see how horribly the situation has turned. There is no excuse for what Israel is doing. There is no excuse for what the US is doing. It is evil and wrong. Now we even hear that Netanyahu is taking actions to PREVENT the hostages from being returned because he prefers to prolong the conflict. Property in Gaza is even being sold at synagogues in NYS & Toronto.

I'm sure the people in Gaza do speak horribly about Jews. Their entire region is in rubble, thousands of children are dead, and they have no food or water.

As to me? I'll just call you deluded and unable to see this is the death of Israel eventually and I would hope not - the US. It's wrong.