[Ammi]

…I’m really quite conflicted in what I feel about what Gary Lineker said ….he always seems like a thoughtful guy but I only really ever am aware of his words when they’ve been deemed by the media to have been controversial because he’s not someone that I watch or listen to as a football pundit…he’s someone that speaks from the heart and as a humanitarian is what he’s said …and obviously some of his words … 'I can't think of anything
that I've seen worse in my lifetime. The constant images of children losing
their lives day in, day out’….are also being expressed by so much of the world’s people day in and day out because the loss of innocent life is horrific…

…there are so many ways that Hamas’ attack on October 7 could have been described if a descriptive were to have been used…so many words that he could have used…?…brutal..?…savage…?…inhuman…?…merciless…?…
murderous…?…evil and wicked…?…heinous…?…those are all words that are used in terrorist attacks and slaughter of innocence, aren’t they…like with 9/11 for instance, I can’t think of it as being referred to as ‘a 9/11 thing’…because it just …diminishes and reduces something murderous and brutal that should never be diminished or reduced…and I get ‘freedom of speech’ also…but when people are ‘influencers’ as Gary is…then the words used in their humanitarian feelings and thoughts are surely of great importance as they carry a weight, also…and that weight also has humanitarian implications, or I should say, can have, on and for the Jewish communities around us…

..anyway, ‘the Hamas’ is not just an unfortunate phrasing, it’s very diminishing and depreciating of an horrific attack, I feel…so not a good look for a humanitarian person as he is ….