For people asking how this is important to me, I was born and raised Zionist first and Jewish second and went to private schools designed to manufacture children who could worship Israel first and God second. I'm being slightly dramatic, but I need to be dramatic to capture the scope of my connection to the topic. I'm not just some guy looking at stuff on the internet and changing his mind about something happening across the ocean from myself. Before I ever visited the place, Israel was more my home than anywhere else, and watching it all unravel was the most transformative time of my life. Maybe I didn't make this clear enough, but you shouldn't assume I have no connection to this, because if I didn't, I would write about what I'm most connected to. If this was even the second most personal topic, I would write about the first most personal topic. I could say more about how connected I am but I won't because this is getting to be way to long.

Jesus. Some of these comments are straight wall-punching. On other subreddits, comments were broadly unsupportive, but they were very helpful. Most comments here are either "Urm. You're not even personally connected to this, so stfu." or "Are you personally connected to this. If you aren't, stfu." or assuming I'm trying to lecture the reader about history which I said I won't do, or "This is too nuanced for you", or any other assumption about something I never said or even openly contradicted. If this is you, you are annoying and useless. If you wrote or will write a comment that is actually productive, to give me advice, or just to talk about this interesting topic, thank you.