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Jan. 9th, 2009 10:31 amWhere am I mentally this morning? It is my Friday off, and as usual there are more tasks than hours in the day to accomplish.
I haven’t blogged a lot recently. I’ve been heartsick over what is going on in the Middle East. More war and more pain. A friend asked if the synagogue trip is still on and I gladly said yes. I paid my trip insurance in case of (my) cancellation. Hopefully, events will not force the entire trip to be cancelled.
I listened to Amos Oz on NPR this week (http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=99071547) and his weary tone reflected my mood. Of course I support Israel. Even when I was younger and before I converted, I looked at Israel as “home” in a way that I could not define.
That doesn’t mean that I think that they are perfect. One of the most vehement arguments that I can remember having with someone that I dated was his insistence that the West Bank should be absorbed into the state because it was historically part of the ancient nation. Bollocks! This isn’t the ancient state and this isn’t the messianic age.
But it also infuriates me to hear people complain that, in effect, Israel is too good in defending itself. No one said a word during the past year when missiles were falling on playgrounds in Israel. In fact, you have to read Haaretz or the back pages of our own newspapers to find that out. It’s apparently ok to shoot at Israel every single day—if you promise to be a bad shot.
So, I haven’t blogged. The issue is too complicated for glib comments. Some of my thoughts have gone back into writing fiction. It came to me that my two workshops spent a lot of time reviewing my novel: two years elapsed time because of the Katrina break. I owe them at least one rejection story. Which means I have to finish revising the stupid thing.
I haven’t blogged a lot recently. I’ve been heartsick over what is going on in the Middle East. More war and more pain. A friend asked if the synagogue trip is still on and I gladly said yes. I paid my trip insurance in case of (my) cancellation. Hopefully, events will not force the entire trip to be cancelled.
I listened to Amos Oz on NPR this week (http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=99071547) and his weary tone reflected my mood. Of course I support Israel. Even when I was younger and before I converted, I looked at Israel as “home” in a way that I could not define.
That doesn’t mean that I think that they are perfect. One of the most vehement arguments that I can remember having with someone that I dated was his insistence that the West Bank should be absorbed into the state because it was historically part of the ancient nation. Bollocks! This isn’t the ancient state and this isn’t the messianic age.
But it also infuriates me to hear people complain that, in effect, Israel is too good in defending itself. No one said a word during the past year when missiles were falling on playgrounds in Israel. In fact, you have to read Haaretz or the back pages of our own newspapers to find that out. It’s apparently ok to shoot at Israel every single day—if you promise to be a bad shot.
So, I haven’t blogged. The issue is too complicated for glib comments. Some of my thoughts have gone back into writing fiction. It came to me that my two workshops spent a lot of time reviewing my novel: two years elapsed time because of the Katrina break. I owe them at least one rejection story. Which means I have to finish revising the stupid thing.
