maria kaplan is the managing director of the east north now and they've been, she says the us should not be sending. is there a weapons? and instead focusing on cease by a, we were founded in 2014, in a moment that had, you know, distressingly similar, you know, similarities to this moment and what we were seeing then. and a lot of what we're seeing now is the, the, the relentless, you know, beating the drums of war, saying that, you know, israel has a right to defend itself and, and nothing else. and, and that being used to murder thousands of palestinians. and we felt that was really important that there was a jewish boy saying, not in our name, we don't believe that this kind of aggression makes to say for it doesn't make us rarely safer. and it's important for americans use to be able to say, you know, we do not want this type of violence to be happening in our name. and we want to urge our government to use every tool at his disposal to save lives in this situation. so by then has a long career of resolving armed conflict. he also has a long career on this issue. in particular,