Kansas City Considers Gaza Ceasefire

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In Kansas City, Palestinian Americans feel mixed emotions . . . A local activist with family in Gaza, says her relief that the bombs had stopped was quickly overshadowed by anguish.

"(Relief) was followed so quickly by such overwhelming grief and devastation and anguish and so, so much shame," she says. "How do you reckon with 15 months of grief all at once?"

Local rabbi Doug Alpert has spoken out about what he sees as "senseless destruction" in Gaza. He says there is growing disagreement within the Jewish community about Israel and Palestine, and something clearly needs to change.

"What we can do going forward is to understand that what we have been doing, and what keeps recycling in waves of violent encounters, is not working," Alpert says. "I know others are out there — Jews and Palestinians, Muslim Americans, Arab Americans — who are committed to the same ideal."

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Kansas Citians react to Gaza ceasefire: 'How do you reckon with 15 months of grief?'