"It is very evident indeed that there are many Jews, both in Israel and elsewhere who are opposed to and horrified by the slaughter in Gaza."

And here is one such, Israeli novelist David Grossman, writing in Haaretz, and quoted in today's Independent (London):

"When the guns become completely silent, and the full scope of the killing and destruction becomes known, to the point where even the most self-righteous and sophisticated of the Israeli psyche's defence mechanisms are overcome, perhaps then some kind of lesson will imprint itself on our brain. Perhaps then we will finally understand how deeply and fundamentally wrong our actions in this region have been from time immemorial, how misguided, unethical, unwise and above all, responsible, time after time, for fanning the flames that consume us...

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