I hear you.
What’s happening in Gaza though, is not ‘war.’
It’s out and out barbarism. Gratuitous violence and killing. War is when somewhat equally matched armies or countries do battle.

As you say, protests are important.
They are proof of life, that we have a moral compass, that we hear distant bombs and screams of children and laments of mothers and bleed a little. Civilians who are defenseless. Old people brutalized by laughing IDF louts.

That we comfort-loving denizens of crapitalist suburbia can still muster outrage at injustice and raise mountains of blood that flows sluggish and cold in ourveins.

No, though we may not admit it, this is about right and wrong.

‘Inconvenient’ truths don’t sit well with many of us. Just as aggressors are conditioned to believe in the righteousness of barbarity we are so isolated emotionally from each other that any distant ripple interrupts our Netflix semi comas and we grimace.

Genocide may be ‘inconvenient’ to some of us around the planet but it certainly isn’t to those who’ve lost entire clans to Israeli carpet bombing. It’s a never ending sorrow and emptiness.