Gaza is roughly a 26-by-6-mile strip of land with 2 million people living under a brutal 14-year siege where, until last week, they were struggling to control a rampant COVID-19 outbreak. Now, in just nine days, using the most advanced and lethal weaponry the United States can provide, an estimated 219 Gazans have been killed, including 63 children, 1,500 injured with 72,000 internally displaced. Dozens of educational facilities, six hospitals and 11 primary health care centers have been damaged, and water, sanitation and electrical infrastructure bombed. Israel is not allowing the entry of vaccines, and it damaged the only testing lab. There would be no available hospital beds and a shortage of critical medications and oxygen if someone were to be diagnosed with the virus. Despite President Joe Biden's unwavering support for Israel, framed in the "Israel has a right to defend itself" and there is "no daylight between us" mantras, and his late and tepid suggestion that a cease fire would be really welcome, there are voices in Congress accusing Israel of gross human-rights violations and functioning as an "apartheid state." Similar challenges to the dominant narrative are bubbling into the political and social fabric of the U.S. with the growth of more visible and outspoken Palestinians and Arabs emerging from the post 9/11 anti-Arab terror. There are increasing challenges to Israeli policies on campuses, a growing international boycott, divestment and sanction movement, and the rise of grassroots and human-rights organizations, including Black Lives Matter, who see cross-sectional relationships between police brutality in Minneapolis and East Jerusalem. Add to this the searing capacity of social media to report in real time without the censorship of mainstream media and mainstream prejudices. The framing is changing. Israelis are shocked by the 3,500 rockets that have been launched by Hamas militants in Gaza. A dozen people have been killed and hundreds injured. Perhaps even more disturbing to Jewish Israelis is the massive show of solidarity and support by Palestinians with Israeli citizenship and those living under occupation in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. People are fearful that a civil war may be brewing. Palestinians have clearly reached a breaking point after suffering from 72 years of racist and exclusionary policies by the Israeli government, its ongoing seizure of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem and the increasingly rightward, tending toward fascistic, political parties.