Israel reduces Hamas to final holdout in Khan Younis

I'd be interested to hear how those individuals getting so worked up about the Palestinian humanitarian crisis (NOT saying there isn't one or that it should be ignored!) are helping the humanitarian crisis in our own cities... the homeless. The hungry. The opioid horror. Are you out there pounding the streets to help people HERE? I have... I decided years ago that I'm not just going to be a keyboard warrior clutching my pearls and letting my bleeding heart splash all over town. I'd love to hear stories about humanitarian aid that isn't just words on a keyboard.

I have FED the hungry... not just called out indignantly that they should be fed.
I have done crisis counseling and thankfully talked a few people out of some really nasty stuff.
I have handed out coats, shoes, and scarves.
I have held and cuddled addicted newborns.
I have SEEN appreciation in those eyes.
It sounds like you do good work. Unfortunately, as much as this work may be necessary, it's treating the symptom and not the problem. The work that needs to be done is going back to a country where we have a thriving middle class, where people don't end up homeless due to medical bankruptcy, and where they don't turn to drugs to dull their pain. Decades ago, most communities had hospitals where the mentally ill could go or be taken for help.
These days, they have only the streets for shelter and drugs for comfort. I have no hope that we will see the country I describe; our politicians have succeeded in splitting this country into the wealthy and the working class. I believe it will continue deep into a Dickens-like dystopia as the wealthy continue to require more and more and the working class works for less and less.
 

All I have to say is that War is ridiculous when there are other solutions!!!
Not for Hamas! This is their founding charter:
The most relevant of the document’s 36 articles can be summarized as falling within four main themes:

The complete destruction of Israel as an essential condition for the liberation of Palestine and the establishment of a theocratic state based on Islamic law (Sharia),
The need for both unrestrained and unceasing holy war (jihad) to attain the above objective,
The deliberate disdain for, and dismissal of, any negotiated resolution or political settlement of Jewish and Muslim claims to the Holy Land, and
The reinforcement of historical anti-Semitic tropes and calumnies married to sinister conspiracy theories

What is “jihad”? The debate over the meaning of the word was reignited after the Palestinian group Hamas provoked a new war by massacring 1,400 people in Israel. The group, which is designated by the US and Europe as a terrorist organization, uses the word to describe its violent campaign to destroy Israel.
 
A few years ago when conservative speakers were disinvited from college campuses, among the reasons were that their words were violence. Just the uttering of them was considered violence.

Today the presidents of these universities are taking a 180 degree position that words are not violence when they're uttered by groups they like and protect.

... and speaking of Dr. Phil ...

 

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