🚨🚨🚨 TLV NOW: 'Yes to the hostages - No to Rafah'

Families of the hostages and hundreds of Israelis are protesting again - again, again, and again - calling for a deal for our hostages and a ceasefire.

Hostage/Ceasefire deal now!

Enough!

The ethical and theological question of what it means to be Jewish post Gaza will be one of the defining questions of the Jewish world in decades to come. I wrote about it in today's Haaretz. Welcome to read and share haaretz.com/opinion/2024-0…

[1] Just learned that the Holocaust survivor in this photo, together with a few other survivors, sent a powerful letter of concern in January on the situation in Gaza to members of the Israeli war cabinet.

This thread contains the translated text of the letter:

Just another day of 'he said, she said' in the Middle East while millions of people's lives hang in the balance.

👇 Understand the tangled words here.

What would we do if we took the message of Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Day that not only 'we won't let this happen to us again' but also 'today I can act to protect someone'?

Protecting others and protecting ourselves go hand-in-hand more often than we might think.

Actually, according to a poll from three days ago, a majority of Israelis say hostage deal and halting the military operation is more important than invading Rafah.

Hoping with all my heart, for the sake of Israelis and Palestinians and all the rest of us from the region and beyond, the ceasefire is achieved tonight and stays.

This act of public protest for a hostage deal now at Tel Aviv's Dizengoff center is subtly brilliant.

This am, COGAT announced the evacuation of civilians from east Rafah to an ‘expanded Mawasi’ & other areas of Khan Yunis. Kerem Shalom Crossing, from where the vast majority of aid enters Gaza & Rafah Crossing with Egypt are in the evacuation zone & are closed to entry of goods.

💥Families of Israeli hostages & supporters have blocked Tel Aviv's Ayalon highway in a desperate call for a deal freeing their loved ones ahead of a Rafah operation.
(Danor Aharon)

Last night, hostage families & thousands hit the streets, demanding Netanyahu & his right-wing government to make a deal now.

כולנו חטופים Gil Dickmann נעם דן noam dan Elgarat dani מאבק לשחרור החטופים Ifat Kalderon mami Gal Piechowicz @premzahiro

We need pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel students to engage in respectful dialogue, to have nuanced discussions, and to learn more about the history and complexity of the conflict, which defies simplistic slogans and easy solutions / Dov Waxman
haaretz.com/opinion/2024-0…

Grateful for the wonderful friends & allies in Standing Together LA and elsewhere & their relentless push for justice and equality for Palestinians and Israelis. Coexistence & peace should not be controversial; stopping the war & releasing the hostages go together; ending the…

UCLA Hillel student leaders to off-campus Jewish adults: you endanger us.

Wow.

Gallant: “This is a good deal. We must, on a moral & ethical level, return the abducted. Especially you and I, the PM and the MoD on Oct 7th. I'm not talking outside the box so as not to raise the price, but this deal needs to be approved. This is our chance to bring them home.”

Thank you to the Times (The Times and The Sunday Times) for publishing my latest opinion piece: I've lost 31 members of my family in Gaza - But we must resist Hamas. In it, I talk about the need to hold multiple truths, humanize the Palestinian people & condemn/critique Hamas
thetimes.co.uk/article/487ca2…

Moses, the great prophet revered by the great monotheistic religions brought to us the commandment: Thou shall not kill. Too many innocent people have been killed since October 7, 2023. Too many of our people have died and we have killed too many since we the Jewish people began…

Netanyahu hoped Hamas would reject Israel's offer. When it didn't, he turned to sabotage / Yossi Verter haaretz.com/israel-news/20…