Thank you Ms. Kahn and all the FP crew for setting aside your understandable qualms about visiting a war zone to provide this moving and thought provoking report. I was fortune enough to spend 6 weeks in Israel in 2008 (though it didn’t feel lucky at the time: my partner of 18 years finally got sick of my bullshit and gave me one week’s …
Thank you Ms. Kahn and all the FP crew for setting aside your understandable qualms about visiting a war zone to provide this moving and thought provoking report. I was fortune enough to spend 6 weeks in Israel in 2008 (though it didn’t feel lucky at the time: my partner of 18 years finally got sick of my bullshit and gave me one week’s notice to vacate her Greenwich Village apartment. She suggested I “just go back to Texas” but I had enough United miles for a direct NYC to Tel Aviv flight so…). The people were beyond gracious to me once you penetrated their necessary defensive shield. I used a budget local hotels as my base and at first I thought the proprietor didn’t like me but one day I was in the lobby and I heard her talking to someone pointing at me and saying “Ally”. I would walk to a nearby Czech pub at night to write my sabbatical travelogue (I need to dig that up) and I asked the bouncer once why he had let me right in but was so hard on some other folks I watched walk in. “We can tell” he said simply. Great country, great people, my God Bless you in wiping out the threat of intolerance and bigotry as much as possible in our so very flawed civilization
Thank you Ms. Kahn and all the FP crew for setting aside your understandable qualms about visiting a war zone to provide this moving and thought provoking report. I was fortune enough to spend 6 weeks in Israel in 2008 (though it didn’t feel lucky at the time: my partner of 18 years finally got sick of my bullshit and gave me one week’s notice to vacate her Greenwich Village apartment. She suggested I “just go back to Texas” but I had enough United miles for a direct NYC to Tel Aviv flight so…). The people were beyond gracious to me once you penetrated their necessary defensive shield. I used a budget local hotels as my base and at first I thought the proprietor didn’t like me but one day I was in the lobby and I heard her talking to someone pointing at me and saying “Ally”. I would walk to a nearby Czech pub at night to write my sabbatical travelogue (I need to dig that up) and I asked the bouncer once why he had let me right in but was so hard on some other folks I watched walk in. “We can tell” he said simply. Great country, great people, my God Bless you in wiping out the threat of intolerance and bigotry as much as possible in our so very flawed civilization
Looks like you're due for another visit :)