If there’s credible intelligence that a hospital is used by enemy combatants, isn’t there an obligation to ensure patients have a safe, adequate alternative (i.e. a field hospital, etc) before incapacitating the hospital? Hamas was long gone by the time the IDF arrived anyway? What I’ve been unable to process this whole time is that if you accept - as I do - that it’s unjustifiable for Hamas to operate among civilians because it puts their lives at risk, where is the justification for the IDF to harm or end the lives of those very same civilians?

This was really difficult to write. I wrote it to Jewish people who disagree with me about Israel - if somehow you still follow me at this point, I hope I've earned enough goodwill to ask you this. I'm going to turn off replies, and please just take some time to think on it.🧵 I asked myself many times why I was writing this. I'm cognizant of different audiences it might reach, and no matter what I say, I can't do justice to everyone's experience. But ultimately, in this moment, explaining why I say the things that I say is the only thing I *can* do.

If you asked me about my politics on Oct 6, I'd say I'm a progressive who's registered as a Democrat so I can vote in NY primaries. If you asked me to expand, I'd say that my politics were far to the left of the Dems, but I vote for them to mitigate harm.

If you ask me today, >> I'd say that I don't have politics, I have values.

If you'd ask me to expand, I'd say that my values, at their core, are universal human rights and equal justice. I couldn't care less where on the political spectrum that lands. >>

Never getting off this app, etc etc. Look there's more.