For Hamas, dead Jews and Israelis is the goal and dead Palestinians is the strategy. Every action they’ve taken before and since October 7th attests to this. Instead of investing the billions of dollars in international aid they’ve received over the years to create a stable societal infrastructure for Gaza’s civilian population, Hamas has chosen to use those funds to build a...
Leaders around the world (including from Russia, which you’d think would be a joke, but here we are…) are calling for Israeli restraint following Iran’s attack late Saturday night, yet how many of these leaders are also calling for action against Hezbollah, which has been attacking Israel nearly every day since October 8th? More than 100,000 residents of our...
Between the river and the sea… Israel has become a nation of yellow ribbons Woven around our car door handles Wrapped around the trees that line our roads Pinned to our shirts and lapels A constant reminder as we move through our daysAnd chase elusive sleep through our nightsTrying to pretend our lives are normalThat there is no “before” and “after” That our children, our...
Today and every day I’m grateful for allies – my non-Jewish friends who respond to my posts about Jew hatred (and non-Jewish strangers whose support I see here and on other platforms), and especially those who share posts about antisemitism on your own profiles. I see you and I appreciate you, more than words can say. To tell you the truth, whenever I post about...
So we are expected to believe that Hamas, which can somehow conjure up exact numbers of dead and injured within minutes to hours after incidents they immediately blame on Israel (like the blast at Al-Ahli Hospital, which turned out to be a misfired Palestinian rocket that hit the parking lot – not an Israeli airstrike that hit the hospital itself) and regularly publishes...
Today is the 135th day of the war, and if you follow other Israelis or Jews online, you may have seen posts stating things like, “today is October 135th”. For many people, it seems that the brutal Hamas massacre—families burned alive, women and girls violently raped and sexually assaulted, individuals tortured, people abducted—has somehow become an irrelevant footnote...
This link is to a post that my dear friend Sarah wrote, and you need to know that what she expressed is how nearly all of your Jewish and Israeli friends are feeling, no matter where they are in the world. I was going to write that this is how we’re feeling now, but not only have we been feeling this way for the past four months – we’ve been feeling it at...
Can you imagine waiting four months to receive confirmation that your loved one is dead and their body is being held hostage by a terror organization? Can you imagine that multiple members of your family – kids, parents, grandparents – were abducted by terrorists, and for four months, you have no idea what their conditions are or whether they are alive or dead? Not...
Friends outside of Israel, are you aware of the fact that since October 7th, the Iranian-backed terror organization Hezbollah has been firing missiles, drones, etc. at Israel from across the Lebanese border – totally unprovoked? Did you know that more than 100,000 Israeli civilians have been evacuated from their homes in communities and towns along the northern border...
When you talk about a ceasefire without mentioning the hostages and wonder why Israel isn’t prepared to even consider this option, you need to understand that for us, these hostages are people we actually know, not some vague, faceless entity that we are using as an excuse for our actions. They are members of our families… Our friends… People in our extended...