I am NOT leaving DU...

[elias7]

74. As both a fellow Jew and medical provider, I hear you

I don’t think non-Jews understand how triggering the Gazan attack was for us. My Israeli friend lamented that the realization government was no longer able to protect them and that the grand experiment of a tiny place in the world that Jews could live unoppressed may be over.

Israeli reactions do tend to be heavy handed, but I GET it, despite the fact I would not act the same way. What I don’t get is rape, beheading, kidnapping, cold-blooded murder in front of families and more, cheering about it. I do not and never could relate to that mentality, and it is triggering to have allies and friends in most every other issue be so vehemently critical of Israel and supportive of people/groups/countries we grew up in fear of.