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Hi Kelly, I found you through Substack Shoutout. My site is thecholent.substack.com, where I try to function as a sort of informal Jewish news service for my community in Seattle. Wow, brave of you to tackle this right off! I just wanted to share a couple of sources you might find useful or interesting, because I think a huge part of this topic is left out of most reports, which is the role of Iran and other Arab countries that have perpetuated the refugee crisis and aided violence.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/how-the-media-makes-the-israel-story/383262/

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2021/0528/From-Tehran-to-Jerusalem-via-Gaza-A-Hamas-rocket-s-trajectory

And my own post as I mired through this last round of conflict, which includes a ton of additional links:

https://thecholent.substack.com/p/not-this-again

Good luck with your work! I have four kiddos - solidarity! And I'm going to check out Aru Shah - we are in need of a good new series here.

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New to this, it's great! Can't wait to read more. I was in elementary school teacher and I remember vividly explaining the Israel Palestine conflict too

my class years ago. Kids are actually uniquely suited for understanding nuance, though in some ways they are very concrete. Even my Orthodox Jewish students understood both the motivations and the transgressions on both sides. Kids are the best conversation partners for this stuff :-)

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