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know thine enemies - 10.3.25

 

See this headline?

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/2025-10-03/live-updates-869310?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Gaza%20flotilla%20carried%20no%20aid%2C%20Israel%20reveals%20%2A%20Two%20murdered%2C%20more%20wounded%20in%20Manchester%20synagogue%20attack%20on%20Yom%20Kippur%20%2A%20Colombia%20expels%20Israeli%20diplomats&utm_campaign=10%203%2025&vgo_ee=po7ToN%2FtAS%2BNBW4sNKfBMUKWlgCFv5eejUXhlmHzGDPRdbD%2Fsg%3D%3D%3ALna57YPXPaKWUamdfBYoCttKNj%2Fq71nc</p>

 

Can it be true?  The flotilla carried no humanitarian aid?  

Can it be true – as other news reports say that the whole flotilla was organized by Hamas, and still others are reporting riots and strikes in Italy as the Italian government opposed the flotilla.  

We have to be particularly careful about the sources of our information – especially now when the situation is so delicate.  It isn’t surprising that a Manchester policeman shot a Jew by mistake.  It happens to us all the time in this war.  

And then maybe everything turns out to be a mistake.

 

 

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forgiveness - 9.30.25

first off I am beginning to forgive everyone who has been responsible for the hatred, the misinformation, the evil,  the past two years.  Second off I am trying to forgive myself as well.   

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Teens in Tel Aviv - 9.30.25

I relay my sense of guilt to Benj.  My grandchildren are all somehow contributing to the war effort – building schools, working for the emergency health services, volunteering at rehabilitation centers – while I sit and write and drink coffee.  Benj’s reply: (I rephrase) They also serve who sit and sip.  

I found that comforting.  

Especially now when everyone’s hands have been tied.

 

 

 

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You wanna know what i think -9.29.25

who won today?  Trump.  Maybe Hamas will win if they agree and get some more agreements about rebuilding.  Israel – whether Gaza accepts the deal or not.  And maybe the rest of the middle east.  

How are we reacting?  We don’t know anything yet.  If the hostages return we’ll be dancing in the streets.  If travel becomes normalized, if the economy returns, if we are not awakened every night with alarms, if we can fill our shopping baskets – maybe we will burst into tears of relief, tears of hope.

It’s all ‘maybe’ so we’re holding our breath.

and we’re still left with thousands of physically wounded and hundreds of thousands of emotionally wounded.  

Thank goodness we have such amazingly resilient young people.

 

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could it happen? 9.28.25

No conversation I had today mentioned the possibility of a cease fire.  No one dares hope.  We’ve had two years of fake news and now we believe in nothing.  And any chance of good tidings disrupts the little equilibrium we have.

But I seem to have fallen for some of it – I’m wearing pajamas  tonight.

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how much hope - 9.28.25

how much hope can a people maintain.  W e are witnessing massive smuggling of weapons coming in from Egypt to Gaza just as a ceasefire is being promised within days.  The settlements on the Egyptian boarder and the spotters warn of an imminent invasion.  And this is just a detail.  There is so much going on in the air and on the ground, and at the same time we are talking about imminent ceasefire – one that has no knowledge of what is going on the ground.

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reactions - 9.26.25

aa few days ago I had a flu shot.  While Ezi had no reaction at all,I felt every single germ -went to bed with  fever.  But by the day after I recovered and was back in business, ready for the COVID shot.  

The COVID shot, however, has knocked me for a loop, and I seem to have written something illegible on my diary.  I’m still knocked out, so I won’t dare analyze Bibi’s UN speech.  But anyway I would have realized if I were in fourth grade that this speech could only be understood by a criminal investigator.  this is a man trying to escape the truth.  

the cards clinched it,

and now I’m going back to sleep.  

tomorrow I’m going to try to get up, and spend the day apologizing to all the people whose parties I missed.

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as i finished my bed time ritual - the rockets sirens came. and now i won't sleep all night. "Do you think your country is in such existential danger? "my friend writes me from abroad. "YES." and then i take make shows off and then fell asleep.

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