israeli politics

guiness world record for me - 12.4.25

This was my thought.  If I can stick it out until April it will be 25 years of my keeping the Tel Aviv Diary.  This has to be a world record, doesn’t it?  for one person reporting on her life in Tel Aviv?  

Unfortunately, Guiness is not including Israel or Palestine in its consideration of world records any more.  

This reminds me of my trip to Ireland in September, 2001.  I wandered into the Dublin Library and found an amazing exhibit of Bibles – in English, Latin, and other languages – but not in Hebrew.  And I thought that maybe Hebrew might deserve the Guiness world record for the first bible – but it didn’t get it either.  Wonder if i wrote about it.  I don’t know because I never read my entries for fear I will try to correct history.

 

 

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a few words about new poems - 12.3.25

Haven’t done much with poetry because of the book soon in galleys in Hebrew about poets and their graves.  this has been a big job, but it turns out I’ve also been writing poems all along.  Just avoiding the consernation of being banned by journals I’d come to think of as home.  But it turns out that I’ve been publishing poems all along.  Google firstofthemonth and my name and you can find a whole bunch of them.

 

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forgiveness - 12.1.25

Forgive Bibi?  

We had been seeing the development of hatred in Gaza on tv for years – the schoolbooks in which hatred is embedded in the mentality of the children of Gaza, the military camps for children in which they learned to shoot to kill, the parades of hatred…

We saw the way the people of Gaza lined up at the fence in the days before the massacre and threatened to kill us all.  (I didn’t sleep the nights I saw them on the news).

We believed Bibi when he promised us there was nothing to fear, even though there were thousands of other things he said and did that we didn’t believe.

I don’t know how we can pardon ourselves much less the prime minister.   

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