People are victims of a dark and heavy pessimism, of the feeling that October 7 and the enormous tragedy that broke our hearts have already been forgotten by the world, as can be seen in the fate of Gaza. “Even the story of the bombed hospital in Gaza,” a friend tells me, “they haven’t talked about since.” […]
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People are victims of a dark and heavy pessimism, of the feeling that October 7 and the enormous tragedy that broke our hearts have already been forgotten by the world, as can be seen in the fate of Gaza. “Even from History of the hospital “They bombed Gaza,” a friend tells me, “they haven’t spoken since it was discovered that they had bombed it themselves. Are the dead less dead if Hamas kills them?”
My optician Dizengoff He listens to me as he tries on my glasses and tells me that he thinks I’m wrong for all my strange ideas for the next day. That we are still the day before. That we must respond to October 7th with violence, otherwise we will be finished in the coming days. And forever. What other choice is there? And I’d rather not write what my dentist of Tunisian origin thinks about Arabs and the Arab world. Even a friend of mine, a very educated scholar, tells me this It’s our fate that there’s nothing to do and that they want us all dead, from ancient times to today, Pogrom after pogrom and look what is happening in Dagestan. But you don’t have children, I answer. In the background the cries of young people calling for the destruction of Israel from the Jordan to the sea.
Even dear old Biden He begins to believe that his defense of Israel could ultimately cost him the election the vote of young Democrats and Muslims and he wonders a little whether, in the midst of emotion, he had not made a mistake in standing up for the defense of Israel. Perhaps the tragedy of October 7th It really was too dark, too pornographic and violent to really be noticed. Maybe too The hostage tragedy is too outrageous to be truly understood. Tragedies of this magnitude may only be fully understood by those directly involved. Gaza is truly an open-air prison, but Hamas had and still has the keys to it.
It would be over in a minute if they released the hostages and the leaders went somewhere else. In Gaza they know it. Will not happen. Nations, leaders, people do not like to experiment with new things or different points of view, they do not like to abandon old games and old positions, let alone confront fundamentalism. Easier simplify and flatten your view of the world. All I have left are crumbs of optimism, i.e. pragmatism, future orientation and creativity. Then also accept the darkness and pessimism that appear to me punctually at night or early in the morning: in times of peace as well as in times of war Having a Bibi as Prime Minister worries me, what they achieve West Bank the settlers now that the army is elsewhere and the police are in the hands of a fascist arsonist minister as Ben Gvir It scares me. What will happen in the north and with Lebanon and Syria worries me. I feel death and ours and his endless pain, especially at night. But in the morning in the shower, always very quickly for fear of the rocket, I try to wash it off.