“My morning breakfast ritual is to read The NY Times and The Guardian for any reassuring news that our democracy is still breathing. And then last week, photos of the ongoing horror in Gaza erupted with photos of starved, emaciated kids, and it exploded in my brain. All of the UN agencies, international aid agencies, and advocacy groups like Doctors Without Borders had been beseeching the world to stop a genocide that had been unfolding for months. The photos were too much. I had to unload the anguish at viewing this summary image of all the genocides in the past sordid, brutal history of the inhumanity of our species. I needed to shout "Stop!" Since Auschwitz, we said "never again". Now we Jews were doing what? Getting even? This little image will not change anything. In doing the painting, it can give my rage the best way to shout: "never again." (Burton Silverman©).
