Ben Gvir, Bibi, Shai Avital – 3 guys in the news today because they do want they want without concern for others.  Shai Avital, landing here right now after his extradition, to stand trial for multiple cases of rape, smiles prettily as the photographer snaps his picture, and raises his thumb in victory. So deeply secure in his own version of his identity,  he is certain the answer is self-assurance.   This is how I see Bibi, and his choice of a confirmed criminal Aryeh Deri as finance and interior minister.  And don’t get me started on the other lies and degradations.   He smiles in the same way.  And then there is Ben Gvir, sneaking into the Temple Mount before seven in the morning so he won’t be caught, muttering a prayer to himself, and then running home, leaving his cronies to praise his move all day on the media. 

(Please understand – The Temple, the holiest place in Judaism, is underneath the Mosque, and we all have the same rights to be there, but let’s talk first.  Let’s make an effort to figure out the problem. )

(And another thing – it is only now, in my old age, that I am beginning to feel that the actual place I am in is the only place that is important to me.  I was taught that in my religion places in and of themselves are not holy,  That’s why we have a holiday in which we’re supposed to reside in tents, and why our synagogues used to be modest edifices.)