Some of the people from Gaza who died in the war were featured on the first page of the NYTimes today.  It was very moving – all the women and children with their individual stories.  No fighters, although by my count there are well over 12,000 Hamas soldiers who have been killed in battle, and a few thousand taken prisoner.  

Within Israel, almost all our tv time is taken up with interviews with families of hostages or soldiers, but none of it seems to be of interest abroad.  I feel like I know each hostage, can identify each soldier, and know the difficult situation of all the men in reserve duty whose businesses have suffered as a result of their extended absence.  I even know some of the wives whose husbands left them with babies and jobs for the war.  But their stories are not being shared at all.  The government here says it’s because of a lack of English-speaking volunteers.  Here we are.