Enough. I’ ve dithered around this issue too much for too long.

Let’s get straight to it: Enough with the support in various ways for Israel and its right-wing government obsessed with self preservation at the expense of decency and humanity.

What Hamas did to Israel on October 7 was horrible. There is no way anyone can or should try to sugarcoat the atrocities this miserable group of terrorists inflicted on Israelis. Israel’s determination to strike back at Hamas is understandable and, in my mind, quite justified.

What isn’t justified is the continuing slaughter of Palestinian civilians — tens of thousands of them — through crippling invasion, abandonment and starvation. Killing innocents in pursuit of military goals is not acceptable. And it’s time the United States recognized that publicly and policy-wise and halted military assistance to Israel. Repeat: STOP military aid to Israel. And stop it immediately.

This is not a matter of anti-Semitism. Hardly. It is a matter of doing the right thing, in this instance saving the lives of innocent man, women and children. There can no longer be any excuse for Israel’s deadly pursuits in Gaza. The government of Benjamin Netanyahu is now no less terrorist-focused than the Hamas it seeks to destroy.

What’s needed is a cease-fire — and a two-state solution to the existence of Israel and Palestine. Ceasing US aid may be the trigger that gets that solution closer to reality. But regardless, military aid to this government must be halted. I hope President Biden will end the halfway actions and do that is needed: end the war and make the peace happen.

Enough dithering about this. Get it done.