It’s possible to want Gaza to be free of war and mass death; to have self-determination as part of a two-state solution… at the same time as wanting the October 7th hostages to be returned to their families.
These are not exclusionary wishes and the average person would surely want both.
But even many thousands of kilometres away, in a local suburban park not visible from the road, it feels like some people don’t want both those things, just one of those things.
I do not think they are making the best case for themselves.
There’s plenty of room around town for both statements to be made separately. Putting one over top of the other is at best a statement of exclusion and at worst one of erasure.
If that is their real message then I think I have received it.
