Comment by rendall

My condolences again. I'm neither Israeli nor Jewish, and I don't personally know anyone directly affected by the attack (as far as I know), but what makes this attack particularly nightmarish for me personally is the world reaction. One can expect indifference. It's far away, another awful atrocity among so many, whatever. But to aggressively, actively deny. Aggressively, actively assume the worst about the victims. To publish long-form articles on the ways the Jewish-oops-Zionist-cabal "control the narrative" and then see that article show up here on the front page of HN. To see the founder of YC tweet out snarky comments like "Its a grim day 31 Israeli children and thousands of Palestinian children are dead". Ivy league students, professors chanting for genocide of Jews, and their Presidents' equivocate before the nation and the world about whether this is harassment. HRW, having an opportunity to unequivocally condemn an atrocity of such depravity, instead both-sides it as if Israel is somehow complicit. Everyone completely ignoring whatever Israel explains about its actions as obvious lies without actually doing the work of falsification. And even here, where a simple human offering of condolence gets some nasty denizen making nasty accusations. What is nightmarish to me is how deep the rot goes.

So, my condolences to you and the families for the children and other victims. My condolences extends to the world at large. There is a loss is innocence here, for me.

But Israelis do have rock solid allies out here.