Fighting in Gaza has taken a very bad turn

[KatK]

57. Thanks for your kind reply, Chainfire

Some of the views expressed lately on this topic have been extraordinarily painful for me, and I've walked away and wept a few times. It's just been so upsetting to me that quite a few people here have views that are so shocking to me. Since I've been partly away, I don't know who believes what.

Usually I'm very quiet here but this forum is important to me, and so I've wanted to say SOMETHING but I've seen others get trounced in what I interpret as a mean-spirited way.

So I'm so grateful that you responded in a way that helped me to understand your views. And that you weren't impatient with me. I'm just so unbelievably sensitive on this issue.

It's been tricky for me even with my local friends. Some of them mostly follow the mainstream press, and if that's all the news you get, then one's views could be quite different than mine.

The situation itself is unfathomably horrible, and it's been so hard on me that people in my orbit are not appalled and taking whatever action they can.

So now in addition to thanking you for your kind reply, I want to thank you for reading this. I feel a little better having expressed all this

May there be peace.