that’s the way this trial is going to go.  The government in charge of this country since long before October 7 is going to investigate the causes of the massacre.  So we’re going to blame the army.  Not the orders given to have the army guard the West Bank, not the Gaza Envelope.  Not the policy to bribe Hamas into keeping relatively quiet.  Not the policy to leave the negotiation of the hostages for later, not the continued neglect of the half a million displaced in the border towns.

And then they’ll blame the soldiers for bombing the unprotected civilians in Gaza, while Hamas hid underground with their food stores.  

I myself blame the government.

And for me there is an additional blame that I can’t forgive.  I find it impossible to feel the same sympathy for the Gazan people I feel for the Israelis.