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first one tonight - 6.14.25

This evening could have been a scene in a slapstick comedy.  Finally understanding how dangerous Iranian missiles can be, we opened all our windows so they wouldn’t shatter, made sure to eat early so we wouldn’t have to do the dishes after the rocket attack, arranged a transistor radio that would work in the shelter. and at the first warning, went down to the shelter. There we met all the elderly neighbors who had not gone down to the shelter before. preferring to wait in the staircase.   This time it was predicted to be really serious. But the rockets fell elsewhere and the actual warning to find cover never arrived.  So they continued gossiping for half an hour and went home.  

I’m sure the rockets will come later, when we’re all fast askeep.

 

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What a Night! - 6.14.25

We’re told we’ll be having another night like last night – with one rocket barrage after another.  I know if you’re reading this note it is clear you keep up with the news, so I’ll just tell you about what some of it feels like from inside.  

We’ve been visiting our roomy shelter often for the past 2 years.  Usually there are a few neighbors and a passerby or two.  But last night there was no room to move.  I thought it was a proof of the increased fear, but it turns out one of the neighbors published an invitation on social media so a whole bunch of people came along.  And we were there for a few hours off and on. 

it was not fun.  we don’t have internet in the shelter so we wait for the alarms and argue about whether we can shut the doors or leave it open for stragglers.  It’s a moral problem that troubled me almost as much as the life and death problem of whether our house is destroyed.  That shows you to what depths I can descend.

 

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signs of life - 6.14.25

When I first started this journal – in April of 2001 – it was to tell people who worried about me that we were all right, despite the dangerous situation.  So I’m back to the beginning – We’re okay. – even though I couldn’t take calls yesterday and spent part of the day in denial and the other part shuddering and frowning in a crowded shelter.  Let’s hope today will be more in control.

 

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unity -6.13.25

After our smashing of 100 rockets from Iran heading for our neighborhood, I think we should be congratulated for one thing – unifying all the Arab countries.  

So by the humor I guess you realize that as of noon today we’re okay.  but we’re still hosting the family that has no shelter.

 

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what we see - 6.12.25

I’ve been wondering about the news lately and what we get to see.  What comes up in a search.  what we can base our opinion on.  A lot of my friends have been seeing Gaza on tv – and they don’t see how the hamas is sabotaging the distribution of supplies – including the killing of local distributors.  You have to look carefully even at the most edited of films. 

But there’s more than that.  When someone mentioned to me today that Andrew Garfield had changed his mind about supporting Palestine, I googled it.  All I found were more than 20 repeats of one statement.  But there was a single piece a few days ago that he had changed his mind: here https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-jewish-supporters-of-the-palestinian-cause-have-been-played/ 

it’s a single paper, and a not very objective one at all.  But it is so antithetical to the hundreds of repetitions online, it is strange that it hasn’t been picked up by any other news  channel.  

Read it, and tell me if you think he knows what he’s talking about and why no one else is picking it up.

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osteopath - 6.11.25

I have a great osteopath – he’s really fixed my knees, and he’s helping with my back – but he entertains me all the time with two subjects , zionism and the holocaust.  This does not improve my back, but I can see he works much harder when he’s excited.

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movie night israel style -

Tuesday is seniors day at the movies, but i don’t think that’s why we decided after months to go to the movies.  And there we were in a traffic jam, almost on time, when the five-minute warning went on my phone.  

Surprisingly, we made it to a parking garage in the second the real sirens went off and found it full of people.  We waited with everyone for the regulation 10 minutes and then went to the movies.  

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