Meanwhile on campuses across America, students treat Hamas as if they are the "Rebels" from Star Wars standing against some bizarre idea of the "Empire" - in which Israel is burdened with every slander imaginable while becoming the stand-in for whatever issue the "resistance" is most outraged by in the moment.

Life rarely presents us with such clean, binary choices - and there is no such thing as a conflict whose most gruesome events are not borne both without - and within - the bodies of the women trapped within it.