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I haven't posted much to public social media about the massacre and subsequent war, and this is only one small piece of what I would say if I were posting more, but it's a piece I want to put out there without waiting to figure out how to talk about other parts.

Calls for vicious revenge, phrases like "flatten Gaza", are not helpful, they're horrifying.

Some of this I've seen from right-wing members of the Israeli government, and some I've seen on social media, including acquaintances (or friends?) of people I know. Some of them probably think they're expressing "support" for Israel. It doesn't feel like support from my point of view.

I haven't known quite what to say when I see these things, but thanks to a girl from Kibbutz Be`eri in Israel, I don't need to.

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First, read this article about what happened at Kibbutz Be`eri:
Israel's 'Ground Zero:' The Be'eri Kibbutz was among the bloodiest scenes of the Hamas attack

I should add that one of the things that contributed to freaking me out when this all began, is knowing that earlier this year my partner Ceila and I spent an afternoon in a small forest just next to Be'er. Less than a mile from the site of this massacre last week. We were in a beautiful field full of flowers (red anemones) and egrets, with many people picnicking at various spots, and quite likely some of the people we saw there that day were among those killed.

Now, watch what she has to say, and share it:

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As she puts it, if you're one of the people expressing support for Israel, you owe it to her to listen to her.