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What an accomplishment pulling this group together.

The conference is like a rock thrown in the center of a pool of water, with ripples echoing outward. The surface of the pool is already boiling with heat. Will these ripples be felt? Seen? The ripples are helped by the book, interviews, comments, and reviews.

As an 11 year-old I recall wandering alone through the Louvre. How much did I understand? Our country is a little like that 11 year-old. Are we old enough to understand and respond maturely to what is before us? We'll see.

Anthony Davis is a treasure discussing the conference.

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When assessing the proportionality of war in Gaza and Lebanon one must also assess the atrocities inflicted on Israeli civilians of all religions. No where else in the world do we have 75 years of terrorists claiming UN refugee status. UNWRA is complicit in inciting the extermination of Israel by teaching and leading Hamas' atrocities and theft of humanitarian aid for terrorist activities.

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Thank you, Dr. Lee. Wonderful conference!

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Dr. Lee: Thank you for ‘The More Dangerous State of the World and the Need for Fit Leadership.’ I have, however, many concerns that I feel duty bound to share.

What if we succeed in disqualifying Trump as a presidential candidate? How do we deal with the Trump “contagion?” I wonder out loud to no avail, rhetorically, whether JD Vance is “fit for leadership?”

We might ask ourselves whether Dems have failed, as “unfit” almost as much as the GOP pathetic candidates. While I advocate for voting for the Dems, no matter what, it seems indefensible and dystopian that both parties support fascist Zionist apartheid Israel’s disproportionate genocidal attacks on occupied Palestine; while demonstrating zero degree of empathy towards Palestinians. I suggest we are enabling and complicit with the Dem Party by maintaining silence during the ongoing massacres in occupied Palestine, enabled by both Pres. Biden and VP Harris who continue to provide the weapons to Israel so it can effectively carry out the genocide.

Silence is complicity. We should have been able to multitask and warned Kamala Harris to break with her unfit boss and demand an end our complicity in the mass murder of Palestinians which has metastasized into Lebanon and threatens to spread to Iran.

We ought to recognize that we are supporting the least of 2 evils. What happens if ICJ rules that both Biden and Harris are complicit in said most egregious crimes? We have blood on our hands due to our failure to fulfill our duty to warn about unfit candidates other than Trump.

Support by Dems for fascist Israel may suppress enough youth, black and brown Dem voters to hand the WH back to Trump and dangerous Vance.

We have a duty to support the call for an arms embargo against Israel. Write to Biden/Harris. Call your Congresspersons. Read: Case For Palestine by Dan Kovalik (2024. )

WH.gov;

Congress:

(202)224-3121

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