The gift link to the NYT article at issue is here.
I’m not going to quote it or summarize it. I will characterize it: the opinion piece, Gaza’s Rubble Is the Grave of Our Future, by Ghada Abdulfattah, “a writer who lives in Gaza,” is anti-Israel, pro-Hamas propaganda that the Times has handed a large amount of space to promote. This is a “poor Gazans being victims of genocide by those inhuman, cruel Jews” essay. The writer never comes right out and says that, but her chronicling of the devastation in Gaza since the Israeli assault began three years ago is definitely aimed at conveying that misleading message.
All right, I will offer a quote:
“It isn’t just the sadness of what was demolished. Seeing endless piles of concrete brings a second layer of violence — the violence of being forced to live with destruction. Rubble doesn’t just destroy the past; it erases the future. It forces your mind to stop imagining, to stop thinking, to stop dreaming about life after today.”
Gee, I guess launching a sneak terror attack on civilians in your neighboring state, killing over 1200 people, including infants, raping woman and taking 250 hostages isn’t such a good idea, eh? Huh. Who knew?
Ethics Alarms 
Wow, this was a good post! I agree with it wholeheartedly. But, the “axis” will say that your ethics perspective is biased. They believe that they are coming into their view from the only valid ethical framework, which makes it difficult for a post like this to reach them — even if they read it — because it won’t shake them from their own biases and misperceptions. It seems nothing will. You’ve challenged them before in social media, and not always received a fair reception. For the most part, they’re not listening.
One questions I wonder about. Who built all those buildings that were demolished? Did the Palestinian people build them, or was it Israel/UN/US who built all of them?
If you owe everything you have and rely for the entire 80 years of your existence on the kindness of others, attacking those others is…dumb.
Golda Meir:
I can’t argue with any of those, they are the truth. This ends when the Palestinian people decide they’re tired of dying.
Which is apparently never.
Then they choose elimination. Something changed in Israel on Oct 7 and they’re not quitting now.