israeli politics

boycott? 7.21.24

I don’t know what got into me to decide to go back to publishing in regular journals.  For the past 9 months I’ve been writing about the situation here, for an interested audience.  But I had this article that I really liked about Melville’s epitaph on his grave called “I would prefer not to” and I thought I’d send it out.  So I picked the “Virginia Quarterly Review” because I’d published there once, and had been in touch once with the editor.  Within hours it was returned to me.  

That was last week.  It only occurred to me today that it was returned unread.

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israeli politics

sympathy - 7.21.24

sympathy - 7.21.24

Because I tend to believe the Israeli army, I trust their statistics about humanitarian aid to Gaza. 

Here  

https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/hamas-israel-war-24/our-humanitarian-aid-efforts/

I know we’re depicted as heartless in the media, and the we’re committing genocide, but it’s pretty clear that is it our neighbors who want to commit genocide.  And I’m one of the proposed victims.

Do I feel sympathy for the Hamas?  Yes, but I know that if someone tries to harm my family or myself I can get pretty hard-hearted.

 

 

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hitting back again - 7.20.24

I’m not sure who bombed the Houtis in Yemen, but it is a big big deal, and we will get a big big response.  Israel has been attacked by the Houtis for a few months, but only when it hit Tel Aviv did we begin to take them seriously.  

That response overlooks the fact that Tel Aviv has been attacked in many ways in the past.  In fact, the reason I started this journal in 2002 was to let my loved ones know I had survived the latest suicide bombing. It didn’t start when the Italians killed 137 people in bombings in 1940.   I think the first one could be counted in 1921.  The victims of that encounter were buried in Trumpeldor cenetery – which was in range of the rocket that hit Tel Aviv yesterday.

 

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israeli politics

self-destruct - 7.20.24

With all the alternatives available, our prime minister is bent on bringing us down with him.  If I didn’t believe in the amazing people who live here, I’d be in despair.  The people I know here who are living in absolutely terrible conditions, families squeezed into single hotel rooms, not knowing whether their lived ones are alive or dead, have to fight against their own government for the basic right of defense – and don’t give up.

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