For some reason, which only those more intelligent than I am can apparently understand, the deep sadness that clouded our hearts this morning when we learned of the deaths of six well-known hostages led to a general strike in Israel. Not only did we learn of their deaths, but the pathology report revealed that they had been shot at short range a short time before IDF soldiers came across their bodies in a Hamas tunnel in Rafah. The pain is unbearable. The fear for the remaining live hostages (perhaps 50 of the 101 still being held) is unbearable. But a general strike?
I don’t understand how a strike is supposed to bring them home. I heard a school principal saying on the news that his high school is striking until all the hostages come home. He did not say how that is supposed to do the trick.
I would like to suggest an approach that seems more to the point than this:
How about if we hold a hunger strike in front of UN offices, the embassies of France, the UK, Canada, the USA, Germany, and others, saying that we will not eat again until Hamas is pressured to return the hostages? READ MORE
