{"id":14806,"date":"2023-10-09T18:11:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T01:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14806"},"modified":"2023-10-10T18:28:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T01:28:22","slug":"informing-without-inflaming-after-horrific-weekend-attack-by-hamas-israels-retaliation-bradcast-1092023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=14806","title":{"rendered":"Informing Without Inflaming After Horrific Weekend Attack by Hamas, Israel’s Retaliation: ‘BradCast’ 10\/9\/2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were otherwise looking forward to a fun BradCast<\/i><\/a> today. Then Hamas launched a surprise attack on a number of Israeli towns and a music festival on a kibbutz on Saturday, in a horrific assault by land, air and sea. Hundreds were killed, injured or taken hostage. Now, Israel is brutally retaliating in Gaza. [Audio link to full show is posted below this summary.<\/i>]<\/p>\n

More than a thousand are reportedly<\/a> dead on both sides, with attacks and atrocities against civilian populations that amount to nothing less than war crimes. At least 11 Americans<\/a> have also been confirmed by the White House as killed, with an unknown number still missing.<\/p>\n

Of course, none of this began over this weekend. So, today, we tried to offer some quick history of how we got here and how war crimes are “never okay” before opening up our phone lines to listeners — both pro\/anti-Palestine and pro\/anti-Israel and pretty much everything in between — with thoughts from callers on the weekend’s tragedy and where it all goes from here.<\/p>\n

The callers did not disappoint. Please tune in. <\/p>\n

Here’s some quick links to just a few of the articles and Twitter threads of note that I cited on today’s program…<\/p>\n