This response engages the discussions by Noha Sadek and Judy Roth of my paper, “Witnessing and Its Implications in Collective and Personal Memory,” taking up their questions about witnessing, Israeli suffering, Palestinian suffering, and the ethical demands of writing in the aftermath of October 7. I acknowledge the limits and exclusions of my original paper, while arguing that recognizing the suffering of those closest to us need not foreclose the witnessing of the enemy’s pain or the condemnation of the destruction and crimes committed in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon. Engaging the charge of failed witnessing, I suggest that trauma and ongoing violence make recognition feel inevitably insufficient yet also render the simultaneous holding of Israeli and Palestinian humanity both agonizing and morally necessary. A final return to Freud situates these dilemmas within the broader tensions between culture, violence, belonging, and responsibility, affirming the ethical imperative to resist despair and work toward the restraint of hostility.