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We've been watching - 9.6.25

We’ve been watching the kidnapped survivors dying for the past 2 years.  All of us have been prisoners of Hamas and Nukba and the soldiers of Gaza for two years, the families are hostages.  No wonder we have lost all sense of logic.

For 2 weeks we’ve been taking care of Charlie, my daughter’s dog, for 2 weeks now, and have managed to control him by doing exactly what he wants.  For example, we do not leave him alone so he will not bark and disturb the neighbors.  Unfortunately, however, it drives me mad, just as it will drive his family mad when he returns home…

 

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“Since I cannot prove a lover,  am determined to prove a villain…” said Richard III.  And I am reminded of it every day – but no more than today.  Opposition makes Bibi believe even more that he is right.  

So we decided not to watch the news  tonight, even though so much was ruined again today.  If we can demonstrate tomorrow, it will be only to comfort the families of the hostages.  And perhaps to comfort ourselves…that all our beliefs have been smashed.

My entries here have been harder and harder to write because I feel obliged to say something about politics, and my personal and literary life so ineffective, so trivial. 

Nevertheless, I continue to try.

 

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migdalor Beach

Because we’ve been hosting a hysterical dog during Orit’s renovations, we don’t leave home.  But a friend enccouraged us to meet at the beach.  this time it was Migdalor at sunset. 

It was so peaceful and emotional. The dog felt it too 

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Matti Caspi

Matti Caspi has written close to 1000 songs, and he has been cancer-ridden for the past year or so.  The number of concerts and evenings dedicated to him are unbelievable – as though we’re clinging to the wonderful range of emotions he presented and invoked, and the innocence of our past.

 I too pray for him.

 

 

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hunger

Chat GPT assures me there is famine in Gaza, and when I look at the photographs I am reminded of the rich fields and orchards I used to see there.  All are gone – and even though the people don’t look as thin as people, say, in Sudan, the sand and rubble make me feel that no matter how many trucks arrive at the distribution points, the self respect that is essential to any folk is impossible to achieve if they cannot feed themselves.  

On the other hand the NCRI’s research seems to prove in ” Starving for the Truth: Fraud, Famine, and the Collapse of Rigor in IPC’s Gaza Declaration” that famine is a political tool.

 

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