I’m getting very frustrated with the news. 

In the shopping mall the traffic is as usual – as I walked to my car at least 3 cars stopped as the driver leaned out to ask me if I’m leaving.  It’s a measure of how today compares to an average day of high-end shopping.  And it is average.

And in the meantime our soldiers are fighting in Shifa hospital AGAIN, because we can’t secure the positions we have captured without making a decision about who will administer Gaza instead of Hamas.  What are our choices?  

All these people shopping have no idea.  As I do not.  I would like it to be the Gaza people but they are certainly not in a position at this moment to govern themselves.  

So they go shopping – no, we go shopping.

We know the hostages are being beaten and raped, we know that the girls are pregnant, and we know that thousands are needlessly dead.  Probably many of these people were at the demonstrations on Saturday.  But what can they do? 

We go shopping.

I have spent more money (that I can’t afford) on irrelevant items this month than the entire fall and winter.