The tragicomedy of Miami’s Palestine encampment

War has raged for a year in the Holy Land. Over 40,000 Palestinian civilians in Gaza are dead, half of them being children. Around 100 Israeli hostages remain in captivity. The land of Gaza has been decimated by the indiscriminate bombing and invasion of the territory by Israeli forces aided by American arms. The thousand fatalities from the Islamist Hamas government’s unprecedented and brutal raid against Israeli civilians may be the first of many, as tensions escalate between Israel and the various Iranian client groups encircling it. These are the facts of the conflict half a world away and on our doorstep.