{"id":8556,"date":"2022-03-24T20:05:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T17:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karenalkalay-gut.com\/?p=8556"},"modified":"2022-03-24T21:26:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T18:26:19","slug":"march-24-2022-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karenalkalay-gut.com\/march-24-2022-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"march 24, 2022 &#8211; madness"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8556\" class=\"elementor elementor-8556\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-90964dd elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"90964dd\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-176c6a0\" data-id=\"176c6a0\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d6120ea elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d6120ea\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Every day I get another letter criticizing Israel.\u00a0 Today it was a letter and a phone call.\u00a0 The letter was about how Israel is so selfish it won&#8217;t share the iron dome with Ukraine.\u00a0 The thing is that Israel is a very small country, and could fit into a pocket of Ukraine.\u00a0 And if the Hamas and Hizballah were using rockets the size of Russia&#8217;s,\u00a0 we would disappear in a minute.\u00a0 Many of the buildings in Ukraine are still standing, albeit in skeleton form, but there would be nothing left of our house if one of those bombs fell in our neighborhood.<\/p><p>The phone call was from a friend in New York who left Israel years ago in protest over the occupation.\u00a0 She came to the understanding suddenly that we aren&#8217;t the worst country in the world.\u00a0 \u00a0It is very hard to be good and moral in a world in which everyone else is not following your rules. 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