The mainstream media did not recognize any of that humanity today. They reported, as per usual, en masse, that the hostages had just died, somehow. They just died. I am so ashamed to live in a world that does not regard this situation with moral clarity. I am completely revulsed by my Alma mater and the current regime of my country. They have permitted abject Nazism while pathetically attempting to cover it with a blanket of hypocrisy and the rubbish of virtue signaling. The status quo ante cannot be. It is insufferable
As I weep through this beautiful article my wife walked into our bedroom and screened “honey” as if I had disappeared. I was gone, lost in another place. Torn apart with sadness and disgust and rage. I am just not sure what to do with these emotions. I want vengeance and I know that won’t help me. I want to physically tear something or someone apart and I know that wont bring back a life. I am shattered. I am broken from your words and from your heart and from a year of following your journey. God please pray for those who have suffered and please pray for the thoughts of destruction I have in my heart.
Eve, I pray for you and I love you as if I know you. I can’t thank you enough and I can’t regret following you more. What a conundrum I find myself in. 🤍
While they were alive and held in Rafah, this administration urged Israel not to go into Rafah, and withheld munitions and armaments from Israel while it was and is currently faced with a multi-prong war on many fronts. We know what has happened as a result of this delay; we can only speculate what could have been otherwise.
Yes the American admonition to the IDF to tread lightly is a disgrace. The IDF made no friends trying to save civilians. They don’t care. They should have ignored Biden and Harris tut tutting about the Israeli response to the massacre. Look what resulted.
This is exactly how I feel. I'm almost as angry with the vile Biden/Harris cabal as I am with the savages of hamas. G-d bless you, Eve, and the hostages and their loved ones. Nothing will quell my rage and grief until every hostage is home and every terrorist is eliminated.
Yes the American admonition to the IDF to tread lightly is a disgrace. The IDF made no friends trying to save civilians. They don’t care. They should have ignored Biden and Harris tut tutting about the Israeli response to the massacre. Look what resulted.
Yes the American admonition to the IDF to tread lightly is a disgrace. The IDF made no friends trying to save civilians. They don’t care. They should have ignored Biden and Harris tut tutting about the Israeli response to the massacre. Look what resulted.
I posted this status update on Facebook right after saw the disgusting, amoral CNN headline about Hersh Goldberg-Polin: “No, CNN, he didn’t just “die”. He was M*RDERED. By H*mas. In Rafah. The same f’ing Rafah that western political leaders warned Israel not to enter. The same Rafah that caused social media influencers to blow up their own profiles with “All eyes on Rafah” memes and videos. I guess that you didn’t want Israel to find the hostages who were being held there.
And for the moronic “ceasefire now” crowd, maybe have a moment of self-reflection and ask yourself what kind of ceasefire can Israel have with a m*rderous, fanatical death cult which takes hostages and then executes them? And which has promised to repeat that act over and over and over.
I fully expect that Facebook’s algorithms and AI censors will flag this post and I will be put in FB jail again but honestly, today I don’t give a f*ck.”
I can’t deny, I cried out of depth of your why. If I hadn’t booked already a month ago my flight to Israel from 01.-10. oct I would do it now. - hearing or reading „never again“ makes me meanwhile furious. - there is one little consolation though, as historian I know my task for the years to come.
No terrorist, no denier in the media, in politics, in churches will be able to hide away. We know their tactics from after 1945. - so as a German in France I wish you bon courage.
Thank you for your thoughts and words. Grief simply does not ever get easier. When you feel you’re healing, when you think you feel forward momentum, the wound gets reopened and you have to close it and start again at square one.
We are survivors. And the grief is too overwhelming. The reason the shiva process is a week long is because we are meant to feel the loss deeply and completely for that allotted time and not make ourselves physically sick or mentally deprived too long after that. Somehow we are supposed to slowly extend ourselves and expand, and live a life dedicated to our own purpose. These souls have somehow lived their purpose even if it ended in such barbaric ways. They brought joy and happiness to their loved ones. We remember only the good. The world around us doesn’t need to emphasize or validate. They should be honest though about what happened and stand up for what’s right. Praying for comfort and healing.
As I read about the fate of those poor hostages, I grit my teeth in frustration. There is sadness as well, but more and more frustration as this goes on. Hamas, to me, are akin to the Nazis. Their ideology, their cruelness, their complete disregard for human life and, of course, their antisemitism.
During the Second World War, the Allies suffered countless deaths from battle, bombings, disease and starvation. When I was young, my family members who fought in the war often referred to it as hell on earth. But they also spoke of it as a time when the people came together, worked selflessly towards the same goal and had a common enemy; in short, they knew they had to stop the Nazis at all costs, no hesitating, no second-guessing, it was all or nothing. They had a moral clarity that does not exist today, and they stood together as one, and that is why they won.
My point is Israel is standing alone in this. I am flabbergasted that this is the case. Never in my lifetime did I think this would happen, that the countries of the West (The Allies who stood against the Nazis) would abandon Isreal in their time of need against an enemy as dangerous and cunning.
The West should be ashamed, and maybe that's also what I feel is shame. I am ashamed of my country, ashamed of my politicians, my neighbours, my allies. How do we ever look the Israelis or any Jewish person in the eye again without shame? Is Israel the only country in the West right now with a moral backbone?
After World War Two, many countries, upon learning of the atrocities of the Nazis against the Jews, did feel ashamed. They were ashamed that they didn't do more, that they turned back boats of Jews trying to escape the Nazis, basically that they let it happen. What happened to that shame?
Did time erase that shame? Is the terrible history of what happened in places like Auschwitz and Ravensbruck being quietly brushed under the carpet by those who want a new version of history? Are we letting this happen again?
We know Israel's allies should have done more right from day one on October 8th, if not sooner. They should have rallied around Israel; they should have moved on masse on Gaza right away as a unified force fighting evil. They should have swept through Gaza like Nemesis, not stopping until they killed every last member of Hamas; they should have rescued the hostages or recovered them right away. We all know this, and this is why we're not only sad but extremely frustrated and ashamed. We have lost hope that good will prevail over evil and that, more than anything else, will crush our souls in despair if we let it.
The mainstream media did not recognize any of that humanity today. They reported, as per usual, en masse, that the hostages had just died, somehow. They just died. I am so ashamed to live in a world that does not regard this situation with moral clarity. I am completely revulsed by my Alma mater and the current regime of my country. They have permitted abject Nazism while pathetically attempting to cover it with a blanket of hypocrisy and the rubbish of virtue signaling. The status quo ante cannot be. It is insufferable
As I weep through this beautiful article my wife walked into our bedroom and screened “honey” as if I had disappeared. I was gone, lost in another place. Torn apart with sadness and disgust and rage. I am just not sure what to do with these emotions. I want vengeance and I know that won’t help me. I want to physically tear something or someone apart and I know that wont bring back a life. I am shattered. I am broken from your words and from your heart and from a year of following your journey. God please pray for those who have suffered and please pray for the thoughts of destruction I have in my heart.
Eve, I pray for you and I love you as if I know you. I can’t thank you enough and I can’t regret following you more. What a conundrum I find myself in. 🤍
“Our circles are much smaller now albeit safer. A ghetto without walls “
True and Certain it is. Sadly
Thank you, once again, for putting words to the many varied emotions I and, I imagine, countless others feel.
While they were alive and held in Rafah, this administration urged Israel not to go into Rafah, and withheld munitions and armaments from Israel while it was and is currently faced with a multi-prong war on many fronts. We know what has happened as a result of this delay; we can only speculate what could have been otherwise.
Yes the American admonition to the IDF to tread lightly is a disgrace. The IDF made no friends trying to save civilians. They don’t care. They should have ignored Biden and Harris tut tutting about the Israeli response to the massacre. Look what resulted.
This is exactly how I feel. I'm almost as angry with the vile Biden/Harris cabal as I am with the savages of hamas. G-d bless you, Eve, and the hostages and their loved ones. Nothing will quell my rage and grief until every hostage is home and every terrorist is eliminated.
Yes the American admonition to the IDF to tread lightly is a disgrace. The IDF made no friends trying to save civilians. They don’t care. They should have ignored Biden and Harris tut tutting about the Israeli response to the massacre. Look what resulted.
Yes the American admonition to the IDF to tread lightly is a disgrace. The IDF made no friends trying to save civilians. They don’t care. They should have ignored Biden and Harris tut tutting about the Israeli response to the massacre. Look what resulted.
Thank you for this. I don’t know what normal is anymore. This is so.damn.much.
Stay strong. Survive. It’s getting harder.
I posted this status update on Facebook right after saw the disgusting, amoral CNN headline about Hersh Goldberg-Polin: “No, CNN, he didn’t just “die”. He was M*RDERED. By H*mas. In Rafah. The same f’ing Rafah that western political leaders warned Israel not to enter. The same Rafah that caused social media influencers to blow up their own profiles with “All eyes on Rafah” memes and videos. I guess that you didn’t want Israel to find the hostages who were being held there.
And for the moronic “ceasefire now” crowd, maybe have a moment of self-reflection and ask yourself what kind of ceasefire can Israel have with a m*rderous, fanatical death cult which takes hostages and then executes them? And which has promised to repeat that act over and over and over.
I fully expect that Facebook’s algorithms and AI censors will flag this post and I will be put in FB jail again but honestly, today I don’t give a f*ck.”
Your writing helps. I can’t find the words right now to say that more eloquently, but thank you.
a ghetto without walls
Thank you 💔
I can’t deny, I cried out of depth of your why. If I hadn’t booked already a month ago my flight to Israel from 01.-10. oct I would do it now. - hearing or reading „never again“ makes me meanwhile furious. - there is one little consolation though, as historian I know my task for the years to come.
No terrorist, no denier in the media, in politics, in churches will be able to hide away. We know their tactics from after 1945. - so as a German in France I wish you bon courage.
Thank you beautiful Eve - sending you love and strength.
Thank you for your thoughts and words. Grief simply does not ever get easier. When you feel you’re healing, when you think you feel forward momentum, the wound gets reopened and you have to close it and start again at square one.
Time seems to have slowed, warped, accelerated all at once in the last 331 days. Anguish.
We are survivors. And the grief is too overwhelming. The reason the shiva process is a week long is because we are meant to feel the loss deeply and completely for that allotted time and not make ourselves physically sick or mentally deprived too long after that. Somehow we are supposed to slowly extend ourselves and expand, and live a life dedicated to our own purpose. These souls have somehow lived their purpose even if it ended in such barbaric ways. They brought joy and happiness to their loved ones. We remember only the good. The world around us doesn’t need to emphasize or validate. They should be honest though about what happened and stand up for what’s right. Praying for comfort and healing.
As I read about the fate of those poor hostages, I grit my teeth in frustration. There is sadness as well, but more and more frustration as this goes on. Hamas, to me, are akin to the Nazis. Their ideology, their cruelness, their complete disregard for human life and, of course, their antisemitism.
During the Second World War, the Allies suffered countless deaths from battle, bombings, disease and starvation. When I was young, my family members who fought in the war often referred to it as hell on earth. But they also spoke of it as a time when the people came together, worked selflessly towards the same goal and had a common enemy; in short, they knew they had to stop the Nazis at all costs, no hesitating, no second-guessing, it was all or nothing. They had a moral clarity that does not exist today, and they stood together as one, and that is why they won.
My point is Israel is standing alone in this. I am flabbergasted that this is the case. Never in my lifetime did I think this would happen, that the countries of the West (The Allies who stood against the Nazis) would abandon Isreal in their time of need against an enemy as dangerous and cunning.
The West should be ashamed, and maybe that's also what I feel is shame. I am ashamed of my country, ashamed of my politicians, my neighbours, my allies. How do we ever look the Israelis or any Jewish person in the eye again without shame? Is Israel the only country in the West right now with a moral backbone?
After World War Two, many countries, upon learning of the atrocities of the Nazis against the Jews, did feel ashamed. They were ashamed that they didn't do more, that they turned back boats of Jews trying to escape the Nazis, basically that they let it happen. What happened to that shame?
Did time erase that shame? Is the terrible history of what happened in places like Auschwitz and Ravensbruck being quietly brushed under the carpet by those who want a new version of history? Are we letting this happen again?
We know Israel's allies should have done more right from day one on October 8th, if not sooner. They should have rallied around Israel; they should have moved on masse on Gaza right away as a unified force fighting evil. They should have swept through Gaza like Nemesis, not stopping until they killed every last member of Hamas; they should have rescued the hostages or recovered them right away. We all know this, and this is why we're not only sad but extremely frustrated and ashamed. We have lost hope that good will prevail over evil and that, more than anything else, will crush our souls in despair if we let it.