Hind Rajab. Sidra Hassouna. Reem and Khaled.

The premie babies at Al-Nasr hospital.

Over a hundred bombed hospitals.

The Irish president's sister kidnapped and abused.

Assassinating negotiation teams and scientists.

Murders of whole families who dared to speak out to the world.

Running over a teenager with their hands zip-tied behind their backs with Caterpillars®.

The paramedic massacre in Rafah.

The hundreds of journalists. The tens of thousands of children. The doctors raped to death.

The people who never get mentioned in these lists of atrocities, buried in mass graves with their children, hands tied.

The people dying from n-order effects, slowly, painfully, barely noticed or counted.

...

And little/no sanctions from our civilized Western democracies. (Except on the people calling it out, who can't use a credit card or bank any more, or even receive donations.)

We are far worse than useless. The stain is set for all time.

A reminder for any Americans reading this: 98.15% of 2024 voters chose a Presidential candidate that supported the above.

True. I have a friend in Southern Lebanon who I met a few years ago at a conference. Our group chat is eerie - we haven't heard from him in over two months. We just don't know how he is, and it's sickening.