I don’t know how anyone functions in this heat – and yet there’s a NOVA festival a few blocks away from us with 30 thousand people trying to memorialize those killed on Oct 7, those in the villages and those in the NOVA festival.
Me I’m trying hard to stay home and keep cool, and stay away from the news. There are moments of hope and moments of great horror. We need better weather.
Something has happened to all of our brains – Lewis Carroll should be writing an antithetical script about us. I mean all the people of the world. When I heard that the films Hamas and Nukba took of their carnage cannot be seen in Toronto because they are the property of Hamas, I realized that it’s not just us that are upside down.
We too are so upside down we can’t even tell any more what is right – but we can still see what is going on. But we would have to be upside-down and blind to not see that the blatant disregard of the basic values that first created this country has ruined our sense of reality.
We discussed today the possibility of an extended strike – not just this Sunday – but all week. Of course it’s harmful to the entire population and probably won’t matter at all to the government, but we’re out of ammunition.
off with their heads – 8.13.25 Read Post »
When I hear the families of the kidnapped, tortured people try to speak in the knesset, and I hear the people who prevent them from speaking, I amazed at how all the locks of the doors to logic, freedom, and morality have been changed. The locks on the doors of the offices of the high court were changed today – as if something is higher than the law. higher than justice.
correction! I should have said the offices of the legal advisor, the attorney general,
And let me add how much I admire her, her steadfastness and her patience, in this matter
changing locks – 8.12.25 Read Post »
What do you do when half the people you know are in Gaza, you’re still recovering from falling down the stairs on the way to the shelter, and your kids are lost without a summer framework because the camp has no where safe to take care of the kids?
You spend all your savings on pleasure of course. Restaurants, cars, trips. clothes, jewelry. it is very pathetic.
Because we did what was expected of us, we voted, and then we began to demonstrate, we write, we scream, and continue to demonstrate. And nothing we do gives us any way to make a difference. All that has happened is that our country has become empty – empty of the million possibilities we always felt – the potential to create, to change, to embrace.
and now we have to begin to define ourselves again.
self-compensation – 8.11.25 Read Post »
what is true what is a lie what is a wish what is taken to heart as true
this is the world of a thousand and one nights – bedtime stories
to help us to sleep – and keep the fear of death at bay. the way we consent
to put off the beheading
for one more night of excitement,
one night of existence.
tomorrow he will
pouf
disappear – a magician –
into a thin cloud of air.
Bibi addresses the press – 8.11.25 Read Post »
that’s it – we’re going to New York and Boston in October, and I’m open to invitations for readings and/or lectures. Mostly I want to sleep without fear and see family. but i also want to communicate something about the experience of Israelis. in the past two years and before.
traveling – 8.10.25 Read Post »
“Do you know what is going on in Gaza?” A friend from abroad asked me today. I don’t know what I said, but I bet not too many people really know. The choice of what to show, the position of the cameras, the choice of who to film – everything reminds me of Goebbels and Reifenstaal making and censoring movies – the same teddy bear that appears in all the ruins – the chunky Hamas soldiers – Who is deciding what we think is going on in Gaza.
Whatever is going on there, it isn’t good, and it isn’t going to bring peace and happiness to any of us.
And that’s all we all really need.
do i know? – 8.9.25 Read Post »
“And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days, —
I am determined to prove a villain,
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.”
Is this our leader? he doesnt talk to me. he doesnt talk to anyone. except foreign reporters. And you think – here he’s planning an operation where at least 1000 boys will be killed – and he didn’t even ask us, didn’t even ask the mothers who are about to send their kids to war. Is he a lover or a villain? He’s certainly not a Samson, sacrificing himself to kill his enemy. We tried revolting by not going to the army, but then when Gaza started massacreing and violating … we came back in droves.
richard III? – 8.8.25 Read Post »
