israeli politics

mount meron - 5.27.24

I probably don’t need to say it but the army closed down the entire area around mount meron because we are being fired upon all the time and Meron is dangerous.  The custom of going to Mount Meron every year to celebrate the many customs associated with it therefore is against religious law.  Life-threatening situations must be avoided according to religious law.  So I don’t understand at all what these guys are doing there and why they are fighting for the right to do it.  We have lost control not only of civilian order, but of the hierarchy of values.

I am not sure what happened in Rafiah yesterday – but at least 35 innocent people were killed.  Our army, which has been claiming that it is very careful to avoid citizen, is mortified.  And justifiably.  This is where all our moral attention should be focussed, and not on irrelevant values that have nothing to do with religion.

 

 

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ambulance - 5.27.24

My friend from Metula once described an ambulance ride to the hospital .  The bumps were unbelievable and she arrived in much worse shape than she left her sickbed.  

And I laughed.  In Tel Aviv, I said, it wasn’t possible.  We have good ambulances and good roads,  But at 5 a.m. when I woke Ezi up to call the emergency doctors, and they stuck me in an ambulance, I felt every bump in the road as if I was being beat up.  I kept looking at the back door that had the pictures of two kidnapped ambulance drivers and I kept saying – their situation, if they are alive, is much worse.  I have nothing to complain about.  

By the time we got to the hospital, nothing hurt me.

So – I got diagnosed with a UTI, got some intravenous antibiotics, and went home.

It was my first time in an ambulance, and I would have believed that it was only Israel that has bumpy rides like that had not a friend in Boston told me of his heart attack rush the week before.  

 

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planning parties, launches - 5.25.24

And while we’re all burning, I’m planning parties.  Really.  First is the conference on Whitman at the University on the 4th of June, then Ezi’s birthday on the 5th.  On the 6th is the party – for me a farewell to the Writers’House on 6 Kaplan St, then on the 9th a big family party for Ezi.  That’s enough for the moment.  I have to make some invitations.

 

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silences - 5.25.24

So much of what goes on here isn’t mentioned anywhere else.  I think we are ashamed of what was done to us – like rape victims who remain silent unless they are prodded to do more.  For example, there’s a Hamas handbook for the invasion of October 7 that specifically instructs Hamasniks to rape, mutilate and murder citizens.  There are even  translations for important phrases like “pull down your pants.”  How did that never come up in the international courts?

 

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No sleep - 5.25.24

it’s not just the jet lag.  i’m overwhelmed – even though i thought i’d see only the people i love, everyone was here.  Including the crazy neighbor whose brother is trying to evict her.  The international court got me so riled up, I can’t sleep.  

I imagine Julia Sebutinde can’t sleep as well.   The only one, against her own country’s will, to see that the others on the court have other motivations than justice, I cam see her tossing in her bed – more and more convinced she is right and the others are evil, but unable to convince the others with facts,

 

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