Mid-Hudson News reports that several hundred people rallied outside Rep. Pat Ryan’s Kingston office on Nov. 10, asking him to support a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas. Many in the crowd also want the U.S. to stop sending taxpayer money to Israel to pay for the war. The terrorist group Hamas attacked Israeli citizens on Oct. 7, in horrific acts of violence. Since then, all sorts of civilians have been injured or killed in the conflict. Mie Inouye, a member of Mid-Hudson Valley Democratic Socialists of America, said, “We grieve every life that has been lost in this conflict, including Israeli and Palestinian lives.... Our point is we are against war and we want to put an end to the violence and we believe that what Israel is doing in Palestine, which is they have killed over 10,000 people, half of them children, is not going to bring peace to the region, in fact, it is just going to perpetuate the cycle of violence.” Felice Gelman, a member of Jewish Voice for Peace – Hudson Valley, said she is “deeply disappointed to see my congressman line up with the same militarists who brought us the Iraq war. Didn’t he learn anything from serving?” Ryan, on social media, wrote that “Our ally, Israel, is surrounded by enemies who seek to destroy it. It has both the right and the responsibility to defend itself and its people – including rescuing hostages, reasserting control of its border, and establishing deterrence against future attacks.” Read more about this story at Mid-Hudson News.