getting the News - 5.13.24
amazing how different the same news is from the US and from Israel. The order of events, the details, the meaning. The news here begins with the condemnation of the widespread killing of civilians in Rafa. We are shown stubs of limbs (stubs with wounds long healed) along with the repeated excoriation of violence. In Israel, the same report on Rafa says we are focussing on the outskirts of Rafa, very aware of avoiding civilians. The point made is that Sinuar is not in Rafa and it is important to look elsewhere. Rafa is not what we care about, but the renewed bombing from Rafa on our villages and Ashkelon.
That’s just one example. The news here is full of pain – Biden is willing to sacrifice his reelection for Israel. Bibi is hoping for that.
I want to put all the information together and shake it up and then sort out the pieces and put it all together again.
I want to make sure all the Israelis who have left Israel because they can’t stand the politics go back to vote so they can help fix what’s wrong with it. They don’t have to stay there – but they now realize that their lives are altered by what is going on there. It’s time.