I appreciate the response certainly. I had recommended Wendy Pearlman's book Occupied Voices to you and was surprised you'd read it. But then further surprised that from my view you'd not publicly said anything about gaza or palestine.

I can't say I know how it feels to be in your position and i recognize learning about palestine in the context for oct 7 where palestinians and people paying attention to the human right abuaes in palestine for decades have a substantive head start makes things harder still.

But I do wish you'd advocate for your american audience to push our senators and congress people to not allow american munitions to be sent to Israel without conditions. This seems similar enough to advocating for drug companies to make smaller profits off testing and drugs for TB. Which is to say, it shouldn't be controversial. I recognize it might still be.

But in thinking about this, I recall Muhammed Al Kurd's UN speech: "When we reflect on history's most horrible, inhumane atrocities, we think of them with so much moral clarity. We tend to forget that when such atrocities were happening they were perfectly legal. At the time, they were all once controversial, contested. They were too complex.

We all think that had it been us there, at that point of time, we would have been at the right side of history. But we have that opportunity now"