Maybe she gets a pass. Ilana Mercer is, after all, Jewish, the daughter of an Israeli Rabbi, and just stone cold gorgeous. I on the other hand, am merely a small and humble possum. Yet as our thinking on certain matters is quite similar, I suspect she sometimes receives a warning to cool the anti-satanism and to curtail writing essays like this one.

As fast as a snake’s thrust, Israel has taken the methods of mass murder used against Gaza’s civilians to the West Bank, to Lebanon and Syria, to Yemen and beyond. It is now launching about for the next country to attack, Iran.

This is the bloodiest in Israeli criminal annals. Still, it is the consensus among the best of people, pure-hearted and valiant all, that the only way to stop the Israeli State’s serial killers is passively and pacifistically—“for the U.S. to end all weapons shipments to Israel.” And, that “the only way that this will take place is if enough Americans make clear they have no intention of supporting any presidential ticket or any political party that fuels this genocide.”

So spoke Chris Lynn Hedges, veteran war correspondent and journalist. Another man of first quality is Professor Jeffrey Sachs. To put an end to Israel’s hourly slaying in Palestine and across the Levant, Professor Sachs, for one, recommends “stopping Israel’s ideology of genocide.”

By this he might mean a reeducation or denazification program of sorts. It is unclear, however, how “stopping” Israel’s “ideology of genocide” will end Israel’s actual, multi-fronted, high-tech, industrial-scale murder campaigns against Palestinians and their defending neighbors.

Read the whole thing. Think about it. And share it far and wide. As another brave, beautiful woman, Marwa Osman, puts it: “All who stayed silent or downplayed Israel’s genocide of Gaza are guilty, you have Palestinian blood on your hands, you are a stain on humanity.”

I praise these wonder women and vow to keep making noise myself. Did you know we fuzzy little possums have the most teeth of any land mammal?