Love you Eve. Shabbat Shalom and Chag Sameach from Sydney. Thank you for always being a beacon of moral clarity and fearlessness. You are my favourite feisty Scottish Zioness! Xxx
Again, thank you for your resilience and your clear, tough, morally accurate, analysis of the victory over evil that was achieved by Israel yesterday and description of the cruelties Israel and the Jewish people have endured since last Oct 7/23. The war may go on for sometime; but it has been a good couple of weeks!!
Thank you for your clarity, passion, steadfastness, and words. Even in May, when you were at your lowest, you gave me/us hope because I knew I wasn’t crazy—the world was gaslighting us—and you saw it too. I cannot tell you how much your words have buoyed me throughout this year. The despair is real, yes, but I am not facing it alone, and that matters.
May this year bring peace for Israel and Am Yisrael.
I have been watching since that terrible day, the cowardly silence, the two sideists, all of them craven and for me, beyond redemption. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and feelings with us, without people online I was alone. I had binned the soundtrack of my life before the massacre. I hope the birds keep singing. Much love to you and Am Israel Chai.
Surely this is going to be the turning point for the Palestinians now. Now is their chance to break free from Hamas who have ruined so many innocent lives. An astounding victory for Israel. Now for the hostages! As ever, Eve, you put into words what so many of us want to say. Go Israel!
Thank You for helping me feel less pathetic for having my own nervous breakdown over the despicable and depraved support for Hamas I have seen since 10/7, 2023.
I am not Jewish, yet I have been obsessed with this immoral horror show for a year.
I feel as if I am living in some bizarre dystopian novel.
Never in my wildest dreams did I expect the world to side with Hamas over Israel. I still can't quite believe it's really happened/happening.
I had a friend say she didn't want to talk to me anymore because I rant so much about antisemitism and Israel. Well, I don't want to talk to her because she doesn't want to talk about it at all.
How can people not be consumed by the evil that has slithered like a snake across our world?
Anyway, thank you for letting me know I am not the only person to have a nervous breakdown over the upside down world we are currently living in. And like you, I am beginning to see light. Am Yisrael Chai (and no, I am not a fundamentalist Christian who only supports Israel cuz I think Jesus needs to return there - I am a cultural Catholic who worships the Virgin of Guadelupe).
I too am a non-Jew. I fully support 100% destroying Hamas. Religion causes immense problems in our world. I’m the granddaughter of a Presbyterian minister, but I am a non-religious humanist who only wants peace. ☮️🇨🇦
Yeah, the past year was really hard. On 10/7/23, I saw my social media flooded with Jew hatred and I remember saying out loud, "This is a psy-op." And it worked; at first I was spending hours every day blocking bots, and then I was spending hours every day blocking friends who thought that killing the Jews was a great idea. And from time to time, I still have to block people who I thought were neutral and then find out they wanted us all dead.
I was thinking yesterday about exactly what you're talking about here, about the #AllEyesOnRafa meme, how the hostages had been kept in Rafa, how Sinwar had holed up in Rafa, how the whole world had done what it could to help Hamas win and how that had contributed to so many Palestinian deaths. I mean, even if you want Jews dead Hamas hides behind civilians and the world wanted Hamas to win, and if the Israelis lost then they'd all be massacred, so they had to fight to survive. So the Hamas strategy was for as many Palestinians to die as possible, because they're weak but the world is strong, and the idea was for the world to fight their battle for them once the Palestinian population was destroyed. If there had been international pressure on Hamas to surrender the hostages and put down their weapons anywhere near the international pressure on Israel to surrender and accept being massacred, Hamas might have caved and then all those Palestinians would not have been killed.
And it was brutal, all year, getting used to the idea that the whole world hates us and wants us dead. My parents used to say this and I thought they were flat-out wrong and the *horror* of this past year is that they were right. Because you can't live with that level of paranoia. But apparently we have to.
> But in the last month we stopped adhering to the world’s rules, and started to precisely target the heads of these terror organizations, and bar Khameini, they’ve all been taken out. It’s staggering what the IDF have achieved in a matter of weeks.
It's staggering that the world was afraid we might do these things. I have been asking myself all year, what is the world afraid of? At first I thought, OK, this is straight antisemitism, it's the standard pattern, Israel can never win, the Jews can never win, because Jew = Satan and Satan can never win. But then I decided maybe that's too facile. I thought perhaps the western leaders were afraid that if they supported Israel, then their own cities would erupt in jihad. I thought perhaps they were tiptoeing so as not to upset the hornets' nest they have allowed to build up within their own countries. Maybe it's a bit of both.
Will Israel end the dream of the Caliphate? Will it protect the West from its own self-destruction? I think that in time, it probably will. And for that it will be reviled, but that's nothing new.
Add to the dead man walking list Abdul Malik al-Houthi. That pos has helped destroy Yemen, then turned to attacking shipping and Israel. The U.S. should've Seal Team Sixed him months ago. I guess it falls to Israel, once again.
Thank you, Eve. Many of us can ascribe Kentsugi to our own lives as we’ve picked up the pieces and survived again and again. Maybe that’s why we can relate to our Jewish cousins, master of the art.
“There is a very long list of people who will eventually hang their heads in shame. I have kept screenshots of them for when they start wiggling their way out of their incriminating actions: all the humanist/feminist authors and lawyers and academics and poets and musicians who once pretended to be “friends” with or associated with me to get closer to either me, or other people in my life. I will never speak to these people again, other than to ask them how and why they felt comfortable spending an entire year supporting a terrorist organization that massacred Jewish people. I have thrown all of their books in the recycling bin where their books belong. I have chucked their merch and their albums out. Because nobody should ever read or listen to a word or a melody by them. They have proven they know absolutely nothing about reality, and have zero critical thinking skills. (Honestly, their contributions were never that impressive to begin with).”
Shabbat Shalom, Eve… we’ve all had our cleansing of useful idiots, even in our own families… it’s sad, heartbreaking and puts us in discomfort… but it’s a necessary cleansing… and we can’t go back, because we have seen and still are seeing the treason and treachery..
Love you Eve. Shabbat Shalom and Chag Sameach from Sydney. Thank you for always being a beacon of moral clarity and fearlessness. You are my favourite feisty Scottish Zioness! Xxx
♥️Every Single Word! Shabbat Shalom♥️
Again, thank you for your resilience and your clear, tough, morally accurate, analysis of the victory over evil that was achieved by Israel yesterday and description of the cruelties Israel and the Jewish people have endured since last Oct 7/23. The war may go on for sometime; but it has been a good couple of weeks!!
Thank you for your clarity, passion, steadfastness, and words. Even in May, when you were at your lowest, you gave me/us hope because I knew I wasn’t crazy—the world was gaslighting us—and you saw it too. I cannot tell you how much your words have buoyed me throughout this year. The despair is real, yes, but I am not facing it alone, and that matters.
May this year bring peace for Israel and Am Yisrael.
Shabbat shalom and chag Sukkot sameach, Eve.
I have been watching since that terrible day, the cowardly silence, the two sideists, all of them craven and for me, beyond redemption. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and feelings with us, without people online I was alone. I had binned the soundtrack of my life before the massacre. I hope the birds keep singing. Much love to you and Am Israel Chai.
Surely this is going to be the turning point for the Palestinians now. Now is their chance to break free from Hamas who have ruined so many innocent lives. An astounding victory for Israel. Now for the hostages! As ever, Eve, you put into words what so many of us want to say. Go Israel!
Thank You for helping me feel less pathetic for having my own nervous breakdown over the despicable and depraved support for Hamas I have seen since 10/7, 2023.
I am not Jewish, yet I have been obsessed with this immoral horror show for a year.
I feel as if I am living in some bizarre dystopian novel.
Never in my wildest dreams did I expect the world to side with Hamas over Israel. I still can't quite believe it's really happened/happening.
I had a friend say she didn't want to talk to me anymore because I rant so much about antisemitism and Israel. Well, I don't want to talk to her because she doesn't want to talk about it at all.
How can people not be consumed by the evil that has slithered like a snake across our world?
Anyway, thank you for letting me know I am not the only person to have a nervous breakdown over the upside down world we are currently living in. And like you, I am beginning to see light. Am Yisrael Chai (and no, I am not a fundamentalist Christian who only supports Israel cuz I think Jesus needs to return there - I am a cultural Catholic who worships the Virgin of Guadelupe).
Penny, thank you so much for your support. We need non Jews to stand with us. It is so so important.
I too am a non-Jew. I fully support 100% destroying Hamas. Religion causes immense problems in our world. I’m the granddaughter of a Presbyterian minister, but I am a non-religious humanist who only wants peace. ☮️🇨🇦
Susi, thank you for your support.
I too have been obsessed with the unthinkable horrors of this past year.😢😭😭😭 I can’t believe it’s been going on for so long. IT MUST END‼️
We love you, thank you, and welcome you with open arms. You are among the righteous.
Eve once again you nailed it. We are not alone, we have each other. Am Y'Israel Chai. Let's get our hostages and carry on being Jewish and proud 🇮🇱✡️
Eve, does your photographic memory include a video of Kamala Harris emphatically saying that Israel should not enter Rafah?
Thank you for remarkable writings on Substack.
Oh she looked at the maps
Glad to see it. Next up Khamenei and the ‘red line’ Iranian nuclear plants.
Including this administration unforgivably
Yeah, the past year was really hard. On 10/7/23, I saw my social media flooded with Jew hatred and I remember saying out loud, "This is a psy-op." And it worked; at first I was spending hours every day blocking bots, and then I was spending hours every day blocking friends who thought that killing the Jews was a great idea. And from time to time, I still have to block people who I thought were neutral and then find out they wanted us all dead.
I was thinking yesterday about exactly what you're talking about here, about the #AllEyesOnRafa meme, how the hostages had been kept in Rafa, how Sinwar had holed up in Rafa, how the whole world had done what it could to help Hamas win and how that had contributed to so many Palestinian deaths. I mean, even if you want Jews dead Hamas hides behind civilians and the world wanted Hamas to win, and if the Israelis lost then they'd all be massacred, so they had to fight to survive. So the Hamas strategy was for as many Palestinians to die as possible, because they're weak but the world is strong, and the idea was for the world to fight their battle for them once the Palestinian population was destroyed. If there had been international pressure on Hamas to surrender the hostages and put down their weapons anywhere near the international pressure on Israel to surrender and accept being massacred, Hamas might have caved and then all those Palestinians would not have been killed.
And it was brutal, all year, getting used to the idea that the whole world hates us and wants us dead. My parents used to say this and I thought they were flat-out wrong and the *horror* of this past year is that they were right. Because you can't live with that level of paranoia. But apparently we have to.
> But in the last month we stopped adhering to the world’s rules, and started to precisely target the heads of these terror organizations, and bar Khameini, they’ve all been taken out. It’s staggering what the IDF have achieved in a matter of weeks.
It's staggering that the world was afraid we might do these things. I have been asking myself all year, what is the world afraid of? At first I thought, OK, this is straight antisemitism, it's the standard pattern, Israel can never win, the Jews can never win, because Jew = Satan and Satan can never win. But then I decided maybe that's too facile. I thought perhaps the western leaders were afraid that if they supported Israel, then their own cities would erupt in jihad. I thought perhaps they were tiptoeing so as not to upset the hornets' nest they have allowed to build up within their own countries. Maybe it's a bit of both.
Will Israel end the dream of the Caliphate? Will it protect the West from its own self-destruction? I think that in time, it probably will. And for that it will be reviled, but that's nothing new.
Add to the dead man walking list Abdul Malik al-Houthi. That pos has helped destroy Yemen, then turned to attacking shipping and Israel. The U.S. should've Seal Team Sixed him months ago. I guess it falls to Israel, once again.
Thank you, Eve. Many of us can ascribe Kentsugi to our own lives as we’ve picked up the pieces and survived again and again. Maybe that’s why we can relate to our Jewish cousins, master of the art.
Amazing column! Thank you, Eve. Shabbat Shalom!!
“There is a very long list of people who will eventually hang their heads in shame. I have kept screenshots of them for when they start wiggling their way out of their incriminating actions: all the humanist/feminist authors and lawyers and academics and poets and musicians who once pretended to be “friends” with or associated with me to get closer to either me, or other people in my life. I will never speak to these people again, other than to ask them how and why they felt comfortable spending an entire year supporting a terrorist organization that massacred Jewish people. I have thrown all of their books in the recycling bin where their books belong. I have chucked their merch and their albums out. Because nobody should ever read or listen to a word or a melody by them. They have proven they know absolutely nothing about reality, and have zero critical thinking skills. (Honestly, their contributions were never that impressive to begin with).”
Shabbat Shalom, Eve… we’ve all had our cleansing of useful idiots, even in our own families… it’s sad, heartbreaking and puts us in discomfort… but it’s a necessary cleansing… and we can’t go back, because we have seen and still are seeing the treason and treachery..
Thank you, Eve.