Old City of Jerusalem, iced coffee, sunshine, life's little pleasures
When I showed the guys at the cafe the tweet and the responses they were really devastated. As I said one of their mother's is South African and she fought apartheid. That people lookat them that way when all day long they serve Arabs, Jews etc is upsetting. On the other hand,
They're actually living life and are in reality, not in someone's self-righteous mind. One was so astute, he said "This is the new religion anyone who is seen as weak is good and anyone who is seen as strong is bad." Yes dear you are exactly correct, this is the new religion
They're really sweet and remind me what Israel is all about
He said to me, "Apartheid! When we can't pray or go safely to our holiest place in the world??" (Its illegal for Jews to pray on the Temple Mount for fear of upsetting the Muslims)
Kid's got it exactly right.
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I see so much vilification of IDF soldiers, whether it's bc ppl don't understand war or they find stupid outliers making videos of themselves being idiots, or bc they take things out of context like video from attempted stabbings but only show the response. But heres what I know
The soldiers in Gaza are made up of young men married just a few weeks, fathers who race btwn battles with terrorists to be with their wives for birth of their child, to hold them a few precious days and go back into battle to fight for their future. Others are CEOs or comedians
business owners or teachers, men with kids & a wife at home. Some haven't yet gone to college or found a spouse. They are the pride and joy of their parents who wait anxiously for them to come home. They fight a war they did not ask for but one in which they play a pivotal role
No matter what you think of Israel or Israelis there is something you need to know. On Oct 7th those of us who believed in peace, who dreamed of peace, were shaken to our core. Not because of Hamas. We know who they are. But because of the Gazans who slaughtered raped, & looted
Gazan civilians who came to kibbutzim to kill. When you hear people say that there are no innocents in Gaza, this is why. Bc they came, they slaughtered, and they reveled in it. They screamed ALLAHU AKBAR as they terrorized & murdered children.
Because the very people who most sought peace, fought for it, lived for it, were tortured for it. These Israelis had Gazan friends, drove them to hospital appointments, employed them in their homes & farms, ran peace organizations & sang songs of hope...
Images of Gazan men, undressed with their hands bound seem to disturb a lot of people around the world. And my question is why?
These images are by far some of the easiest this war has seen. So it's mind-boggling to me why they are eliciting the most reaction...
They weren't tortured, they weren't slaughtered, they weren't burned, as Hamas did to Israelis at a music festival & in their homes on October 7th. They're taken alive & whole to be questioned. Why? Because some of them are the monsters who attacked families on Oct 7th.
Others steal food from innocent Gazans, beat them on the streets, and don't let them feed their families. Why would you feel bad for them?
Those who are innocent, who stayed for whatever reason instead of evacuating, will be let go. They won't be harmed.
People are screaming at me 3,000 children! 1- I don't believe a word that comes out of animal Hamas's mouth
2-Three wks later were still identifying our dead yet they have a full list of names & descriptions?
3-They lied about the dead in the past 4- every dead child is on Hamas
5- Hamas has hundreds of kilometers of tunnels underneath Gaza and gives exactly zero to civilians. They used exactly zero pounds of concrete to build shelters for their civilians 6- they are actively preventing civilians from leaving the areas the IDF has told them to evacuate
7-Hamas had 17 years to build a future for Gazans instead they built terror for Israel's demise
8-Hamas has BILLIONS $$ & shares 0 with Gazan civilians
9-Hamas steals food/fuel/water from aid groups to force a humanitarian crisis 10- Hamas takes orders from Iranian terror regime
Thread on why you won't see our dead: I see people demanding proof of decapitated babies & raped women and I want to explain something. Life is Judaism's highest value. For us life is precious & holy, many of our laws surround separating between life & death and sanctifying life.
Israel has never and I hope will never parade our dead and mutilated for world edification.
#1 for the dignity of the dead
#2 to spare loved ones that pain
For those saying it would help with world sympathy, I say if you need to see videos of rape or a beheaded child to have sympathy for families slaughtered in their homes, young people mowed down & raped at a music festival, toddlers abducted, you are already beyond help.
I can't really type. Can hardly breathe. Refuse to watch videos & can barely read the news w/o falling to the ground. A literal nightmare with Hamas acting out their wildest dreams of slaughtering families in their homes capturing Jewish civilians & soldiers dragging them to gaza
Today was a holiday - Shabbat + Shmini Atzeret. We don't use our phones or connect with the outside world. But bc my husband is an emergency responder, we heard reports of rockets, infiltrations-- things we thought HAD to be wrong. HAMAS, IN TRUCKS? IN THE STREETS??
It can't be. Its simply impossible. We heard the concussions of the Iron Dome - one after the other after the other... Then we had our own sirens. I woke up visiting family to get them into the bomb shelter. My children, my in laws, all in the bomb shelter throughout the day