I feel like her story crossed many lines. Watching videos from Gaza of innocent children with burnt bodies, brains exposed, or a boy with a blown-off leg and a burned face screaming in agony with rubble in his throat, I can’t help but feel that Loren’s humanity is selective. Perhaps if the Palestinians looked more European, she would have shown them sympathy. When Netanyahu quotes biblical texts to justify acts of violence, it’s not seen as terrorism. How much is too much for her? How many more babies and children does she want to see blown to bits to justify October 7th?
I condemn Hamas and the killing of all innocent civilians. I also condemn Israel for killing and carpet bombing Palestinian homes. As a leader, I wouldn’t bomb a city to bits, knowing I could potentially be killing the hostages that justified starting the war. My priority would be to send a special ops team to extract the hostages. If the exact location of the tunnels is known, why bomb from above without confirming the hostages are there? It makes no sense. Ignorance is bliss, and it shows.
It’s funny how she equates terrorism exclusively with Muslims. The mass shooting in Maine wasn’t carried out by a Muslim, but it was terrorism. Looking at statistics, the majority of mass shootings were not carried out by Muslims. Radicals exist in all religions; it’s not exclusive to Muslims. The majority of the war cabinet members in Israel are radicals, calling Palestinian children and babies animals and barbaric, blindly murdering them to pave the way for luxury condos and oil exploration. Google the leaked Israeli think tank document explaining their plan for the Gaza Strip. Israel has also approved oil exploration permits for companies like BP to search near the coast of Gaza. Islamophobia is real, and Loren is an Islamophobe.
I remember watching that season where Loren’s parents didn’t want Loren and Alexei to move to Israel and live in a kibbutz. I especially remember when Loren said they would live in Israel until the kids were old enough for military service and then take them back to the US before they were required to serve. If I recall correctly, her friend Keren said something to the effect that the kids may actually want to serve alongside the peers they grew up with in Israel. I wasn’t surprised when they abandoned their plans to move after that. The trip to check out the kibbutz caused a rift within Loren’s family and they almost didn’t come to her baby shower over it.
Without taking a position on the current conflict, I didn’t like Loren’s attitude during that season at all. Why immerse your children in that culture and then decide to pluck them out as soon as it becomes inconvenient for you? What if they don’t want to go home and they do want to serve their adopted homeland alongside their friends? Why even set up that potential family conflict in the first place? That episode really irritated me.