While you comment on the "horrific war crimes" of Oct. 7, you do not detail them at all except to say that they were "killed" or "abducted". No note of how people were found burnt to death with their hands and feet bound, how many found bound to trees with their clothing and underwear stripped away and their genitals having been cut or with nails hammered into them, no mention of families burnt alive in their homes, of women raped, of bodies found with their heads cut off, of children and even infants taken into underground dungeons, of the hostages murdered in underground dungeons or Gazan hospitals, or of the months and years that many hostages spent being starved and tortured in those dungeons. That degree of attention is only paid to the people of Gaza, whose Hamas government spent years planning the above atrocities, radicalizing the population of Gaza to bring them to be capable of such atrocities, that recruited its terrorist army from among Gaza's people, and which paraded the hostages and corpses of Israeli men and women as trophies for the massed people to beat and spit on. You also do not bother to consider how Hamas rejected the call of the ICJ to release the hostages "immediately and unconditionally", or how Hamas has chosen to let Gaza burn rather than disarm or relinquish its dictatorial control of Gaza. Had you posted only your initial paragraph it would have been acceptable, though only barely adequate. Unfortunately for those New Yorkers, Jewish and otherwise, who support the state of Israel and were horrified by the atrocities of the day, you are first and foremost focused on the Palestinian Arabs, as could be seen in your early presence on the streets calling Israel's counteroffensive a "genocide" even before a single soldier had crossed the border into Gaza. This minimalistic and performative statement by you does not show empathy for the pain of those New Yorkers who mourn the losses of this horrific day. Quite the opposite, you are thumbing your nose at them while you seek to make the people of Gaza the primary victims of the day and the conflict as a whole.