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Dec 2023
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Members Only #193 – ‘I Don’t Think Anyon...

Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch
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* I resign!

* (“That was a great apartment….”)

* I resign!

* (“That was the worst job….”)

* Mansplaining the war

* Too big to process

* It’s like 9/11 for Americans, and also not

* “You can still smell the death”

* The Jericho Wall revelations

* “I’m pretty sure most people who were responsible will resign”

* Were judicial protests a distraction?

* State fails, society rallies

* A time for Diaspora choosing

* Like moths to crazy

* Intelligence scandal, leadership scandal

* Hard out here for a two-state solutionista

* Did Israel choke off Gazans’ resources?

* “My heart is captive in Gaza”

* “If we don’t come out of this very secure, it’s the end of Israel”

* And yet … hope!



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