Lemonada.

This is Sarah Stewart Holland.

This is Beth Silvers.

You're listening to Pantsuit Politics.

It has been over five months since we have spoken about Gaza on the show.

We can offer a litany of reasons. The news won't stop. The summer is hard. But really, it's because we didn't know what to say.

What do you say when you know, no matter what you say, it will cause pain to someone?

We can't condemn Israel strongly enough for some, and we can't defend Israel strongly enough for

others. This isn't just a sensitive topic. It is a gaping wound in the side of the human race. Some of us might do a better job of

others than avoiding it, but we are all affected. But we do need to talk about it, and we are asking

everyone listening to the sound of our voices right now to hear us say, all we can do is trying.

We're going to try to talk about the situation in Gaza.

And instead of doing our usual before we get started dance today, we're just going to reserve that time on the advice of a beloved listener for all of us to take a deep breath and ground ourselves as best we can and embrace

the next moments of silence before we start to fill them with words, knowing from the beginning

that our words will not be enough. We're going to be. We're going to be. We're going to be a good.

And we're going to be.

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I'm going to Beth, I was struck by the realization that there's not even an agreed upon entry into this conversation.

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