No Monday Mix Today
Ceasefire now
The Monday Mix is on strike today in solidarity for Palestine, especially after my government thought it would be cool to be the only ‘no’ vote on a cease-fire resolution in the UN Security Council on Friday. We’ll be back later this week.
—Andrew
Not going to respond to people individually, but I have two things to add:
1. NOTHING you can say will convince me that bombing Palestinians indiscriminately—including more than 5000 dead children, at last count—is going to achieve the ends that any of us desire here: freeing the remaining hostages, ending Hamas's control over Gaza, bringing justice to the victims of the October 7 attacks, or attaining some sort of lasting peace for both Israelis and Palestinians.
2. I do not post "political" content here often, but anyone who has been here more than a few months will know that this is hardly the first time I have. If you'd prefer your bread content to be politics-free, I'm sure there are others you can follow, but I'm not going to censor myself on your behalf. Bread is life and silence = death.
Calls for a ceasefire, while they sound really nice and peace loving, are specious.
Ask yourself: If Hamas laid down their weapons and released all hostages, would there be peace? No reasonable observer would think otherwise.
Now turn it around. If the Israelis laid down their weapons, what would happen? No reasonable observer would believe that anything other than rape, slaughter and mass atrocities would follow.
A ceasefire should only happen once all hostages have been returned and Hamas has surrendered.
IMO, Politicization of non-political spaces like work and non-political content are a bad idea.