I looked up bleary-eyed from the computer on which I'd been scrolling nonstop and said a version of what I have since heard so many Israelis say: 'They hate us. They all want us dead. There's no peace to be made with animals like that.' ... He reminded me of who I'd been and, more important, who I wanted to be.
I grew up in a devout family, but our religion was Labor Zionism and our god was Israel, the dream of a homeland for the Jews built on principles of secular socialism. ... My father's immigration to Israel from Canada in 1948 and his founding of Kibbutz Kissufim in the Negev Desert, one of the kibbutzim that was invaded by Hamas militants on October 7.
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