When terrorists attacked the Kibbutz Nahal Oz in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Nikita Soumrov and his family hid in their safe room. He will speak in Middlebury on April 4 about the experience.
How can it be that after all these centuries of “progress,” we humans still try to resolve our differences by killing each other and destroying what we have labored to build?
As the Israel-Hamas war continues to unfold overseas, members of the Middlebury College and surrounding community are grieving the lives lost in recent violent attacks as well as looking to share more information about the ongoing conflict.
I am horrified at the collective punishment now being meted out to the civilians of Gaza.