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The above was the heading of a post I wrote a few weeks ago about the general election, but heck, it works just as well for what I’m writing about today, the escalation of violence in Israel and Gaza.
The first time I realized that things were getting serious was when I was in my German lesson at the community centre near my house in Mevasseret Zion. “What’s that noise?” I asked the lady sitting next to me. “It’s the siren,” she said, whereupon we and the other participants (all elderly ladies like myself) got up and moved to the shelter, which happened also to house the toilets. We heard (and saw) fire trucks and ambulances racing past, and after hanging around for a
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As we mark the 73rd commemoration day of the Nakba, Palestinians are reliving the events of the Nakba.
The killing and destruction will end only when the root of the problem is addressed: a colonialist regime that continually dispossesses the Palestinians.
Dozens dead, hundreds injured, and millions of children, women and men anxious, despaired and in pain. These sights are regrettably familiar, as are the politicians’ statements and tactics. One cannot expect a different result if one keeps repeating the same acts – above all, if one’s politics is one of denial.