Pictures. Collective. Personal. One image superimposed on another. Tears. One over another. Receding into other pictures.

Bondi Beach, Sydney – a massacre with the lighting of the first candle of Chanuka. The news flash interrupts a radio interview with returned hostage, Gadi Mozes, citing reasons why Israel needs a Commission of Inquiry to investigate the events of October 7 and how it could have happened – and not only that. The inquiry the government avoids, proposing a political alternative with commissioners that it appoints.

Gadi said an inquiry should examine other related issues about how this government has led Israel to fall out of favor among so many nations, to such an unprecedented degree. After the news flash from Australia, Gadi was asked to comment. He posed the rhetorical question, logically following his remarks before the news: Why are there so many incidents of antisemitism around the world?

Thinking: There will probably always be antisemitism around the world.

Can it be curbed? Why is it on the rise in recent years? Was Zionism not overly presumptuous to think it would provide a solution to antisemitism?

Can Hamas be defeated? Is it feasible to expect Hamas to lay down its weapons? Is it reasonable to believe we can obliterate Hamas?

Day after day. Photos of the massacre victims. A child. A Holocaust survivor. Tears. The courageous Muslim Arab man who risked his life to grab the weapon from one of the terrorists in Sydney. Good people are good people.........

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