Even the promise of war can’t wake me up.  Hizballah has been teasing us into conflict and it was clear that they would have to be addressed.  I expect it within days. 

On the other hand, we are so in need of peace we do everything to make tentative plans for better things.

A facebook friend from Gaza asked me to support people there and send money, and I am frozen.  I haven’t even answered him all week.  The implications are too confusing for me.  Would money actually  help? Would it mean that I think they were right?  Would it be used against me the way other attempts in the past have been used to prove my guilt?  I don’t feel guilty at all.  And that is why I don’t even answer the accusation of genocide.  I believe most of the people of Gaza would have taken over Israel and killed the inhabitants if they could, and they were warned and sustained whenever possible.  

And yet I would not have destroyed Sodom.