I also compared the Zelensky meeting to Jan. 6th, but I think this was even more terrifying to me bc with the insurrection, he was out. We still had people restricting him & fighting back.
I’ve been suffering from derealization tons since 10/7, and I’ve described this to people who had never heard of such a symptom. On Friday, people were calling me and wondering if things were real. Someone sent me an article today, by a conservative writer, who is terrified and also wrote about wondering if he’s hallucinating.
As for Israel, we talked about the impossible situation during my Torah study class today. How I’m struggling with thoughts that feel alien to my character—I’ve started to wonder if Israeli peace activism is complicit in harming Israelis. BUT…then I think it’s not the fault of the children who are born into this radicalized ideology. But then I think if a tiger was about to eat me, I would shoot it even though it didn’t deserve to die.
It feels impossible.
And I can’t even comment on the rest—it’s all too much. I am wondering if we need to leave, and that’s hard as our kids aren’t so little. Our son is 29. It’s not like we can just up and go as a family with little ones.
I have been thinking similarly, all around. We've never seen anything like these times in our lifetime, but our ancestors did...so maybe a seance is needed at this point, or schnapps.
There is enough food in Gaza to last 4-5 months. Tne food is stolen by Hamas and they made $1/2 billion on it already. You know how they can get all the food they want. Send home the hostages and the corpses they are extorting for.
Whatever Israel does, it will be blamed for the hunger in Gaza. And if there is no hunger, it will be blamed anyway. Living in Israel, I was a center-left type (Avoda, occasionally Meretz, Lapid for those familiar with Israeli parties). I believed that everybody was a rational actor - except Hamas, of course, but they were a tyrannical minority, right? Ordinary Palestinians wanted peace, right? Wrong. I still cling to my distinction between Gazans and Palestinian citizens of Israel. I don’t believe any of my Arab students would ever succumb to jihadism. But how long can this impossible balance continue? Hamas should be eradicated, its ideology wiped out, its infrastructure destroyed, and only then cane the Middle East heal. It can be done. But it will require harsh measures that won’t be accepted by the American left. The problem is that nothing Israel does will be accepted by the left, short of collective suicide.
Your account of the episode of Call me Back is exactly why I stopped listening to that podcast! I cannot get my head around Dan Senor’s motives for bringing such guests on the show.
I have to be honest; I’m not upset by the halt of aid to Gaza. Israel was already being accused of “genocide” and causing starvation, anyway. It might be the only way to get the remaining hostages home.
As for that shameful exhibition at the White House last week, I could only hang my head in embarrassment.
is it fair to say that it is Ramadan and fasting is a thing? No, that would be bad, very bad. It is awful, but if resupplying humanitarian needs also fuels an enemy to regroup and continue its assault, it can be said to be permissible under laws of war...and of course, Trump removed any ethical bar to some tactics, didn't he? It's a house of mirrors...and the prolongation without some kind of intervention, of any or all of it, just makes my mind go to the worst possible paths.
It is uplifting to know I’m not alone.
I also compared the Zelensky meeting to Jan. 6th, but I think this was even more terrifying to me bc with the insurrection, he was out. We still had people restricting him & fighting back.
I’ve been suffering from derealization tons since 10/7, and I’ve described this to people who had never heard of such a symptom. On Friday, people were calling me and wondering if things were real. Someone sent me an article today, by a conservative writer, who is terrified and also wrote about wondering if he’s hallucinating.
As for Israel, we talked about the impossible situation during my Torah study class today. How I’m struggling with thoughts that feel alien to my character—I’ve started to wonder if Israeli peace activism is complicit in harming Israelis. BUT…then I think it’s not the fault of the children who are born into this radicalized ideology. But then I think if a tiger was about to eat me, I would shoot it even though it didn’t deserve to die.
It feels impossible.
And I can’t even comment on the rest—it’s all too much. I am wondering if we need to leave, and that’s hard as our kids aren’t so little. Our son is 29. It’s not like we can just up and go as a family with little ones.
I just messaged you through Facebook!
I have been thinking similarly, all around. We've never seen anything like these times in our lifetime, but our ancestors did...so maybe a seance is needed at this point, or schnapps.
There is enough food in Gaza to last 4-5 months. Tne food is stolen by Hamas and they made $1/2 billion on it already. You know how they can get all the food they want. Send home the hostages and the corpses they are extorting for.
Whatever Israel does, it will be blamed for the hunger in Gaza. And if there is no hunger, it will be blamed anyway. Living in Israel, I was a center-left type (Avoda, occasionally Meretz, Lapid for those familiar with Israeli parties). I believed that everybody was a rational actor - except Hamas, of course, but they were a tyrannical minority, right? Ordinary Palestinians wanted peace, right? Wrong. I still cling to my distinction between Gazans and Palestinian citizens of Israel. I don’t believe any of my Arab students would ever succumb to jihadism. But how long can this impossible balance continue? Hamas should be eradicated, its ideology wiped out, its infrastructure destroyed, and only then cane the Middle East heal. It can be done. But it will require harsh measures that won’t be accepted by the American left. The problem is that nothing Israel does will be accepted by the left, short of collective suicide.
Your account of the episode of Call me Back is exactly why I stopped listening to that podcast! I cannot get my head around Dan Senor’s motives for bringing such guests on the show.
I have to be honest; I’m not upset by the halt of aid to Gaza. Israel was already being accused of “genocide” and causing starvation, anyway. It might be the only way to get the remaining hostages home.
As for that shameful exhibition at the White House last week, I could only hang my head in embarrassment.
is it fair to say that it is Ramadan and fasting is a thing? No, that would be bad, very bad. It is awful, but if resupplying humanitarian needs also fuels an enemy to regroup and continue its assault, it can be said to be permissible under laws of war...and of course, Trump removed any ethical bar to some tactics, didn't he? It's a house of mirrors...and the prolongation without some kind of intervention, of any or all of it, just makes my mind go to the worst possible paths.