If you are expecting to read my usual Left Coast column, I tell you now that you will be disappointed. I write, today, from a place of horror—about the massacre unleashed against civilians in Israel this past week, and about the morally cretinous bloodlust reaction some who fashion themselves as being on the “left” seem to have experienced in its aftermath, but also in despair at the ghastly collective punishments being unleashed from the air on Gaza residents by Netanyahu’s far-right government and the Israeli military.
:Wonka-dessert:
When the warnings and inevitability have been out there for decades. Everytime “the left” warned the political establishment that their support for a genocidal aparthied is unacceptable and needs to be tampered with the rights of the Palestinians we were told to
SHUT UP / SIT DOWN / ADULTS ARE TALKING / IT’S COMPLICATED! 
When the inevitable happens - we’re like yeah we told you but your missle profits and fanatical lunatics are more important than brokering peace. So don’t look to us for sympathy when we told you so. Decades and decades and well just