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I think the global response needs to force a two state solution. This has been eight decades of going round in circles, there are too many people who vehemently reject the idea that they should concede anything to the other side and the cycle continues. How can anyone expect Israelis and Palestinians and the wider region to sit down and peacefully agree to each other's right to exist when there are populations loudly decrying that the other side are rats to be exterminated or colonial settlers who steal land, children of light and children of darkness... the rhetoric is so extreme that obviously nothing productive can come of it. The British government and opposition uniting to give the green light to Israel to 'respond' when the response has already been made, to blockade basic essentials needed for life and to cause the forcible transfer of population from north Gaza to south, after decades of hemming people into tinier and tinier pockets of space, is utterly reprehensible.

It's been playing on my mind how furious from beyond the grave I'd be if I died in either side of this conflict right now with my beliefs that Hamas and Netanyahu are extreme nutcases who don't represent me at all, and large sections of the world wouldn't stop to think if me, a victim, even agreed with any of it.