Three-Day Weekend |
Three-day weekend – good excuse for a three-item blog. Three-day weekend – a holiday of course, if nothing else reminds you, because nothing feels like holidays used to. It’s not just me. It’s the diminution of holiday greetings.
Item 1: Another flotilla en route to Gaza with humanitarian aid, or an anti-Israel agenda, or both, or because they’re inseparable. Or because humanitarian aid means different things to different people. I used to say one man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist. As the woman seeing it through the eyes of the latter, with good reason, it didn’t mean I wasn’t aware why the former had women and men seeing it their way. Just saying. Me, cynical?
When Israel and Hamas handle delivery and distribution of humanitarian aid, and Israeli practices warrant criticism, and get it, why are Hamas practices warranting criticism largely excused?
One thing I know: criticism of Ben Gvir for producing a video clip of his visit to the detention camp where the latest flotilla activists were held this past week until deportation was off target. Criticism must be for tactics used........