Hello, and welcome to an audio episode of Some More News, the show that 40% of you listen to in the background while having sex and or masturbating to times you've had sex.

Yes, we do have those statistics. We know when you come.

And here's some news. It's time to recklessly transition this introduction into the Israel and Palestine conflict in our part two of a two-part re-release of two one-part episodes of Some More News.

And here's some more news that we've titled two-one-part episodes of re-releases of Some More News episodes part two.

We're workshopping that still, or rather we should have, I guess, really should have thought of that before I'm sitting here reading it.

Anywho, on June 11th, 2019, we released an episode titled How to Maybe Criticize Israel. It was once again written by Katie Golden, who we apparently love to torture with this subject.

And actually, it came up before the first episode we chose to re-release entitled Uncomplicating the Complicated Palestine Israel Conflict.

Feel free to go back and listen to that if you haven't, or don't, or do.

So here's a question. Why did we release these out of order? Is it because we're a bunch of drunks? Sorta? But more so, it just seemed weird to start with this one after we so recently witnessed a horrendous attack on Israeli citizens.

Because despite a lot of our commentary being focused on the government of, and some of the people in, and the general policies and situation in Israel, murder is bad.

You know, and every life lost creates an unimaginable rift in the lives of everyone around them.

The entire point here is to stop and condemn the violence inflicted on everyone, not just by one group.

So why then are we so focused on Israel? Well, this episode and the previous one explains that.

And to expand a bit, Israel not only has more resources and power over the people of Gaza, but are being directly supported with our tax dollars.

They also happen to be the occupying force, which I would argue, is also bad.

And in every other circumstance throughout history, that has been considered to be wrong.

Apartides open air prisons occupying someone else's home, there's no moral ambiguity around those things, except in this one case that happens to involve our allies.

And as we keep pointing out, it's apparently impossible to talk about this without a lot of people accusing you of supporting Hamas or celebrating the death of Israelis.

Which is weird because there are people in Israel who are speaking out against Netanyahu for the gradual genocide and ethnic cleansing he is inflicting on Palestinians.

It's not anti-Semitic nor does it support Hamas to point out that there is a group of people currently occupying displacing and containing another group of people against their will.

And that occupation has led to a great deal of suffering.

And we should find a way to stop that suffering for both Israeli and Palestinian citizens without resorting to a fucking genocide.

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