Everything you dreamed Barcelona to be, it is.  .0th warm people, the great food, th=impressive sites – the Gaudi – etc.  

But everywhere we also found protests – against Russia, against Ukraine, against animal consumption.  At the same time, there are homeless people sleeping in the street and the other standard problem we find everywhere.

From here it looks worse for Israel than any time in history.  But from here it looks like our judgements about other countries are strange.    Do we really know enough about Ukraine and Russia to take either side?  Some Russians in Israel are saying that Ukraine 1s Nazi.  Some people say the opposite.  We think we know everything.  Once we get closer it is fuzzy.

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Take the story of Barcelona and it’s generousity.  “Dont go there” I’m told when I mention I’m heading over to the Jewish quarter. ” There’s nothing there.”  Someone says, “They chased the Jews out in the twelfth century.”  Chased.  I know they killed them or /converted them.  0