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This. Exactly this, every single word. Thank you for writing it.

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Thanks, Bess. Yes, yes, 1000 times yes.

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Nov 15, 2023Liked by Bess Kalb

Absolutely amazing writing (no surprise there!). I'm gentile, but every word resounded in my heart. It's what I've tried to get my cousin, a converted Muslim, to understand as he posts Palestine propaganda. It's humanity. That has to be THE line. Humanity.

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Please share it with him.

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Nov 15, 2023Liked by Bess Kalb

“The hardest lesson of Jewish trauma is to not inflict greater suffering.” ♾️ %

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Nov 15, 2023Liked by Bess Kalb

Bibi Netanyahu is a horrible man who only knows the sledgehammer. You express my thoughts exactly. Only heartless people want perpetual war and loathing.

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Nov 15, 2023Liked by Bess Kalb

Yes. Yes. Yss.

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Thank you for this, especially your last line -- "Release the hostages. Ceasefire" -- what I wish I heard at every rally.

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Nov 15, 2023Liked by Bess Kalb

These are the words I can't express remotely as well, thank you.

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It’s like you took all of the jumbled thoughts, worries and questions in my brain and turned them into insightful, meaningful prose. Plus Bloomingdales. Thank you.

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I want this blasted through the rooftops, from beginning to end. I am so moved by your words during this awful situation. Thank you.

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Thank you. This bubbe, torn and desolate over the choices you have articulated, thank you for the humanity of your writing. Now I will go make a land acknowledgement (Canada) and take minutes for my shul's social justice committee, where we can not, will not, discuss all that you wrote. We are too divided.

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Yes! Why didn't I think of that. Thank you. Until we all see each other as human, this will continue. This may be your best piece of writing (and I love your book so that's saying a lot).

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Exactly right

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Beautiful and so moving <3

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YES. Exactly. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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I read the last word “ceasefire”. That’s,in fact, the only word in your piece I disagree with. You are painfully naive if you think that will lead to a better outcome. You can’t make peace with people who want you dead as a matter of dogma.

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