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food - 7.30.25

As we left the beach long past 9 at night, we passed two men who were cooking on the sidewalk for their family sitting on the grass.   I said, “bon appetit” in Hebrew because I couldn’t remember how to say it in Arabic, and they absolutely shouted thanks with great enthusiasm.  

Of course this moment will be burnt into my memory forever.  Because I had been watching CNN all afternoon and heard again and again about the famine in Gaza and how it is our fault.  I hear it all the time but because I was feeling ill today I couldn’t move and kept hearing the same thing.  The problem is, I know the food is going in there and is getting hijacked by Hamas.  I know so much food is getting destroyed on the way to the hungry people.  And I know that feeding people who are firing rockets at us is a problem.

May all who are hungry be fed.

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all day long - 29.7.25

we were supposed to have a lovely day at the museum, lunch, the optomologist, and then maybe a movie. 

But it went the other way.  It began when I went to the health clinic to return the holter (results next week).  Ezi wasn’t feeling well and asked for an EKG.  This led to cancelling the morning  and going home to consider what to do.  That led to a consultation with the doctor that led to the emergency room. 

And then, since Ezi was actually feeling better,  for the rest of the day I got to admire the brand new triage center while he went through a series of tests.  It was quite amazing because in the many times I have been to the emergency ward, it was always chaotic and a bit frightening.  With the new triage center, it was fast, efficient, and not at all unpleasant.  

To tell the truth the ‘pleasant’ part was due in part to the fact that the section we were in dealt only with ambulatory patients, which made speed much more possible.  

So the only real wait was the waiting for blood test results.  The exam, tests, etc went speedily along like a conveyor belt, and he came through exactly as he had entered.  with no changes, no medication, no instructions.  

At least it kept us off the streets and away from the news.

 

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hunger - 7.28.25

It’s basically all we talked about all day.  All we wrote about.  “Is it possible,” a strange woman asked me in the health clinic., “that we are responsible for this?”  “Doesn’t matter.  Right now what matters is to stop greater tragedies,”  I found myself answering.  The fact that the world is blaming us isn’t the issue.  The issue is how do we alleviate the situation.  We’ve tried to distribute food and were overwhelmed by crowding masses.  What we didn’t do was set up closed-off allocation areas, so we control who gets in and at what rate.  And at a much earlier date.  It would have been so much easier if we had been able to work logically – but we’ve lost our heads.   

 

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morality - 7.28.25

I wonder if people in Germany tried to demonstrate against Hitler.  For us it seems we have not been able to prevent the mess this country has made in Gaza.  Nothing we do sways the government from its stupid activities.  Perhaps it is not our fault that there are Gazans starving but we are definitely responsible for righting the situation.  I am horrified by the fact that there are politicians who remind us how terrible it is to aid the enemy at a time of war, when we are the ones guarding the borders.  I remember the fields and orchards in Gaza, the bustling fruit and vegetable markets, the herds of goats and sheep.  They seem to be all gone now – and it doesn’t matter who started this round or who is keeping the food for private use.  All of us are guilty now.

 

 

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hunger - 7.25.25

Nothing makes sense.  Hamas is feasting in the tunnels, ready to fight until the last child dies of hunger – and people still support Hamas?

And this is our fault – that we’re not sufficiently feeding the people who keep trying to murder us?  

Of course I have no respect for this government, but I think it is in a stupid situation.

And one of the reasons is that we haven’t had the time to deal with our goals what with all the petty infighting we’re doing.

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art - 7.24.25

Lately, we’ve been going to galleries – openings of new shows, retrospectives, etc.  I haven’t been inspired by much, although I usually love art.  I usually blame myself, or Ezi, who whipped through an exhibit tonight faster than I’ve ever seen him go.  But it is the art as well – looking for a way to deal with the fresh hell we are served with every day.  

Today was particularly hard for me.  It was at the entrance to the Artists’ House that the news came that Witkoff declared Hamas uninterested in negotiations, and the talks would now stop.

what cares about art when hope for the hostages has just disappeared?  And what artist would dare hold a mirror to our dispair? 

 

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