I debated when it came time to fill this drawer in the cabinet. Do I write about the past two weeks in Israel? How can I not? Do I offer my opinion? Possibly. Do I want to engage in a discussion of the many rights and wrongs? Toward what end? Does it enhance anyone’s now to bring war into this space? You decide.
In the end, I gathered links to articles and information that are rarely shared by the American press.
Matti Friedman from Israel
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/israel-insider-guide
Conflation
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/jamaal-bowman-liel-leibovitz
How does terror benefit the terrorists?
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/eyeless-in-gaza
Terror attacks on Jews in NYC by Palestinians
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/palestinians-assault-jews-across-new-york
Sheikh Jarra
https://www.wsj.com/articles/almost-nothing-youve-heard-about-evictions-in-jerusalem-is-true-11621019410
Reporting on war from the war zone
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/associated-press-hamas-gaza-lee-smith
Israeli comic rebuts John Oliver’s latest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGqc4BsAf40
Some people, no matter how clearly, factually you provide black and white evidence, choose to remain stuck in their hatred. I blocked someone (a distant cousin who found me on 23&me) on FB. I sent him the Hamas Charter, the BLM manifesto. His heels are dug in. So much for self-hating Jews 🙁
Facts, shmacts. I think that for some people, hatred
is comfortable. Hatred doesn’t ask us to reflect or look
inward. Hate is powerful feeling; I guess nurturing it gives
some folks the senses that they, too, are powerful. A waste.
also post link to Honest Reporting Me