<div dir="ltr">Bill,<div><br></div><div>I really appreciate your reflections on this article. I agree that the tightrope Biden is walking is part of it. I'm sensing that he may come to calling Netanyahu out for his belligerent and war crimes. American complicity to the carnage in Gaza needs to be confessed and our role diminished as the major weapons supplier to Israel (and other nations). I realize this won't happen easily or soon. Perhaps if we have a truly investigative Congress, they might expose the greed of our weapons industry and --at least-- ask/explore what we can do to change it. </div><div><br></div><div>I loved your "picking your tribe is not the answer" remark. Playing/talking/arguing into this tribal dynamic is an important warning of a distraction and a clue for turning to another approach, as in repentance - turning our backs.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div>Sharon Fisher (formerly Robertson)</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 4:14 PM Bill Schlesinger via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I am NOT an expert on this part of the world, but am concerned about how we can revisit the interlocking traumas that create this kind of suffering. Triggering on all sides - and divided US politics - has fed into incredible misery. That's a given. But - next steps? Biden seems to be walking a tightrope made necessary by multiple dynamics; calling him out as a 'puppet' of Netanyahu as the 'master' does not seem to reflect that reality. The unconscionable attack on Israeli citizens came from an equally unconscionable occupation of Gaza and so forth back to the Palestinian Mandate and post WWII guilt over the blind eye and rejection of exiles from Germany. Each violent step - including the Stern Gang et. al. has led to this disaster. But moralism and fingerpointing will not change the reality on the ground. <br>
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We are living in a time of ethnic cleansing, abuse of immigrants and tribalism all around us. Picking our tribes isn't the answer.<br>
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