Because I have some kind of flu that makes me dizzy, it was hard to wake up at 4 in the morning or whenever it was that the Yemeni missile was shot down. I managed the steps down to the shelter, but I had to be fully conscious to do it so I really focussed. And then of course I couldn’t get back to sleep. So today is going to be a waste at best.
Local Testimony -1.3.2
This year’s photography exhibit at Muza, the Eretz Yisrael Museum, focuses on the horrific events of October 7, and the terrible consequences to Israeli society. The way we feel, not only the terrors we have endured, but also how we have been turned into animals by the multiple wars we are enduring again and again. My deepest prayer is not only that the hostages will be freed, and will be able to overcome their tortures and recover what is left of their lives, but also that we will be able to regain our moral ideals, to live like human beings.
https://www.eretzmuseum.org.il/en/exhibitions/local-testimony-2024/
What is missing there are photos from the Gaza side. Why? Because the Gazans won’t let us use any photos from Gaza.
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I have been there, on New Years, on Bourbon St. It was a rousing time, and the sense ofnonymity lent a particularly unique feeling of freedom. The events this year, however, altered the significance of that sense of anonymity.
Everyone is a target.
When I sit in the shelter with my Arab neighbors I used to think – well, they are collaborators so there is some “justification” for them to be targeted like me. But we have to accept the fact that the innocent people who are killed in attacks like that are not just collateral damage – chaos is the goal – the overturning of civilized society. For the extremists at least.
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