as someone who very very much *could* have been one of the hostages I felt like I was nonstop punched in the gut for weeks on end by the people who said the hostages deserved it and ripped their posters down from street lamps and windows. Now I’m being punched in the gut again by the people who posted photos of the hostages and yellow ribbons in response to any of the calls for a ceasefire from Palestinians and who yet now in the heat of the moment are saying the hostages only ever were so many bodies (Bodies!) all along