The tales of heroism and kindness, large and small, are heartwarming.
On the "small" side, my daughter heard from her husband in Gaza that the wife of one of his comrades had spent a miserable night in their shelter in Nahariya with the children, because of attacks from Lebanon. My daughter found a pizzeria in that town and had it deliver…
The tales of heroism and kindness, large and small, are heartwarming.
On the "small" side, my daughter heard from her husband in Gaza that the wife of one of his comrades had spent a miserable night in their shelter in Nahariya with the children, because of attacks from Lebanon. My daughter found a pizzeria in that town and had it deliver pizza and ice cream to the woman and her kids.
While she was doing that, she got a message that her siblings had arranged a babysitter for her and movie tickets for her and a friend (whom they had already contacted).
And when her office-mates heard her order the pizza, they did something similar for her.
All that is on the personal level, and it's great. The political... not so much. Making a big deal out of how the PM hasn't "accepted responsibility"? I'm not sure what exactly that would mean, but I'm quite sure that the people calling for it the loudest would be the first to say, if he did accept it, "See? It's all his fault! He has to step down immediately!" Maybe he does, but the reasoning here is circular, or close to it. One could also point out that we didn't hear these people -- the Israeli Left -- demanding an accounting from the politicians who brought us Oslo and the ensuing Second Intifada.
Myself, I'm not very interested in pointing fingers; what's vital is that we improve our practices to minimize the chance of the next catastrophe, as was done in the wake of The Yom Kippur War. I'm not pointing a finger at Gantz either, but his statement that “Netanyahu prevents us from getting a real victory" is meaningless without an explanation of the mechanism by which he's doing it and specific decisions that were obviously wrong at the time.
It's my understanding that Gantz was not popular and his departure is fine with most Israelis. I say this with very little knowledge of the political dynamics of the region.
My visceral response is one of tremendous joy that four hostages were saved from captivity and that Noa was able to see her mother. Reports state that her mother is gravely ill but I pray that even if she couldn't register recognizing her child, that she knows that she is safe. RIP Arnon Zamora and God bless the father who did not live to see the return of his son.
I smell the US state dept and administration doing everything they can to get rid of Bibi. You don't have to love Bibi to be outraged by this meddling. Everyone is forgetting that this is/was a Unity Government. And removing Bibi isn't getting Israel a leftist government. The Israelis can figure it out for themselves.
I'm not outraged by the meddling (though I agree that there's meddling); I'm outraged by the stupidity. I also think there's a decent chance that we 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 get a leftist government - or at least one that the US and EU can cow into new concessions to the Palestinians.
The tales of heroism and kindness, large and small, are heartwarming.
On the "small" side, my daughter heard from her husband in Gaza that the wife of one of his comrades had spent a miserable night in their shelter in Nahariya with the children, because of attacks from Lebanon. My daughter found a pizzeria in that town and had it deliver pizza and ice cream to the woman and her kids.
While she was doing that, she got a message that her siblings had arranged a babysitter for her and movie tickets for her and a friend (whom they had already contacted).
And when her office-mates heard her order the pizza, they did something similar for her.
All that is on the personal level, and it's great. The political... not so much. Making a big deal out of how the PM hasn't "accepted responsibility"? I'm not sure what exactly that would mean, but I'm quite sure that the people calling for it the loudest would be the first to say, if he did accept it, "See? It's all his fault! He has to step down immediately!" Maybe he does, but the reasoning here is circular, or close to it. One could also point out that we didn't hear these people -- the Israeli Left -- demanding an accounting from the politicians who brought us Oslo and the ensuing Second Intifada.
Myself, I'm not very interested in pointing fingers; what's vital is that we improve our practices to minimize the chance of the next catastrophe, as was done in the wake of The Yom Kippur War. I'm not pointing a finger at Gantz either, but his statement that “Netanyahu prevents us from getting a real victory" is meaningless without an explanation of the mechanism by which he's doing it and specific decisions that were obviously wrong at the time.
It's my understanding that Gantz was not popular and his departure is fine with most Israelis. I say this with very little knowledge of the political dynamics of the region.
My visceral response is one of tremendous joy that four hostages were saved from captivity and that Noa was able to see her mother. Reports state that her mother is gravely ill but I pray that even if she couldn't register recognizing her child, that she knows that she is safe. RIP Arnon Zamora and God bless the father who did not live to see the return of his son.
I smell the US state dept and administration doing everything they can to get rid of Bibi. You don't have to love Bibi to be outraged by this meddling. Everyone is forgetting that this is/was a Unity Government. And removing Bibi isn't getting Israel a leftist government. The Israelis can figure it out for themselves.
I'm not outraged by the meddling (though I agree that there's meddling); I'm outraged by the stupidity. I also think there's a decent chance that we 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 get a leftist government - or at least one that the US and EU can cow into new concessions to the Palestinians.