I am an easy-going guy. I don't get upset by all the horror in the world because horror has always been (and seems will always be) the human condition.
I see violence, I see suffering, I see cruelty every day in my job, I believed I was immured to it.
It turns out, there is a limit.
If you try to create a moral equivalency between Israelis defending the very lives of their citizens, if you try to rationalize the unthinkable cruelty of Hamas and their supporters among the Palestinian population, if you try to convince me there this is a two-sided conflict, I will ignore you.
I will not engage with you. I will ignore you.
I will maintain my friendships with Muslims (of which I have quite a few) and with those people of liberal persuasion, just as long as they NEVER mention the conflict in Israel.
That subject cannot be discussed in those terms and I will not pretend that it can.
If you support or defend Hamas, you want Jews dead, and that means you want me dead.
I am not afraid of those who want me dead, but I won't pay them the respect of trying to understand their reasons.
Feel free to try and sell your poison to anyone who will listen. But, I will not listen.