Khalil Mahmoud

[LightBright]

Maybe I missed that part???
NYC is as messed up, and or wonderful as it ever was. The changes I see have far more to do with oligarchy.
Ugly Pencil towers with billion dollar apartments that no one lives in.
Huge swaths of town under construction in a way that bodes terribly for small businesses.
Our office is in midtown.
If the city was underwater, we'd see it.
Come to visit!!!
No swimwear needed

Well, yu know I love NYC. I was trying to say without mentioning politics what the mayor said in many interviews. NYC’s budget was overwhelmed by their responsibilities to care for newly arrived immigrants. The money had to be reallocated, etc.

 

[telephone89]

I believe we should not have mob rule, violence and intimidation to change things. Those are my values.

The actions at Columbia were antisocial at best terrifying at worst. I saw a video of protesters (belonging to the group that Mahmoud led) taking over a classroom full of students, dressed in black with keffiyehs over their heads and nothing showing. They told the students to get out of the college class they were attending. The same group held a janitors hostage in the library. Yet Mahmoud gets out of jail and goes straight back to this group.

Why do you support anti-social protests so vehemently? I’m curious why we as citizens aren’t allowed to despise mob actions that are intimidating.

You didn't answer the questions. You want to deport anyone who does something you don't like, but he came legally. He followed the process.

You blame a group that "he" was a part of, but he did not actually do the things you're claiming.

Your whataboutism is showing again though. Can't answer the question so you deflect and try to manipulate the conversation in a different direction.

How do you determine if they share "your" values? Why are "your" values what matter most? Which part of "your" values does he not share?

 

[ShinyPink]

I read something yesterday and decided to verify it via Census.gov, PewResearch.org, KFF.org, and AAPIdata.com.

CA has the largest foreign-born population. And you know what? We're good! We're actually great! (OK - that last part is my opinion.) The bad here is when racists attack these groups.

Los Angeles County (which is huge!) has the largest population of Armenians outside of Armenia and one of the largest Russian communities outside of NY. CA has the largest Asian population, with Asians being the one group that is mostly foreign born.

What's interesting is that no one is stopping them or rounding them up. Why is that? Why isn't ICE in West Hollywood or Glendale or Koreatown, or Alhambra? It has zero to do with crime and everything to do with skin color - and it's disgusting.

You also might want to check cost-benefit analyses of immigrants.

 

[Rockdiamond]

Why do you support anti-social protests so vehemently?

I can't speak for others....but I defend the right of speech- that in no way endorses any speech.
If unpopular speech is banned.....who gets to decide what is "anti social" and what is legitimate protest??

I'm really tired of people trashing my city to make a point.

Compare the crime rate of NYC to Dallas, Birmingham, AL or other cities.
Yet a man who is "advising" POTUS posts about how NYC is falling apart.
NYC crime rate is lower than the nation as a whole.
But let's beat up on the Big Apple.....

 

[LightBright]

You didn't answer the questions. You want to deport anyone who does something you don't like, but he came legally. He followed the process.

You blame a group that "he" was a part of, but he did not actually do the things you're claiming.

Your whataboutism is showing again though. Can't answer the question so you deflect and try to manipulate the conversation in a different direction.

How do you determine if they share "your" values? Why are "your" values what matter most? Which part of "your" values does he not share?

Are you straight up Antifa? You seem to have no values except social Marxism. Sigh.

Whatabout my statement that I do not believe in mob action and Mahmoud does? He is their leader. As a citizen, I believe it harms America to subsidize and coddle foreign people whose only job seems to be agit prop.

 

[kenny]

I read something yesterday and decided to verify it via Census.gov, PewResearch.org, KFF.org, and AAPIdata.com.

CA has the largest foreign-born population. And you know what? We're good! We're actually great! (OK - that last part is my opinion.) The bad here is when racists attack these groups.

Los Angeles County (which is huge!) has the largest population of Armenians outside of Armenia and one of the largest Russian communities outside of NY. CA has the largest Asian population, with Asians being the one group that is mostly foreign born.

What's interesting is that no one is stopping them or rounding them up. Why is that? Why isn't ICE in West Hollywood or Glendale or Koreatown, or Alhambra? It has zero to do with crime and everything to do with skin color - and it's disgusting.

You also might want to check cost-benefit analyses of immigrants.

Why?

Your post demonstrates that you don't suffer from what I'd call "superiorityitis".
You are intelligent, and think well.

The haters are neither, and now America has a Hater in Chief.
Not insults ... just the facts, Ma'am.

 

[telephone89]

Are you straight up Antifa? You seem to have no values except social Marxism. Sigh.

Whatabout my statement that I do not believe in mob action and Mahmoud does? He is their leader. As a citizen, I believe it harms America to subsidize and coddle foreign people whose only job seems to be agit prop.

Am I anti-facist? Sure, you could call me that. Are you pro-tifa?

Still havent answered the questions though. He didn't come to the US with the intention to protest the palestine/israel war. How are you going to weed out the people who don't have "your" values?

 

[JPie]

Interesting that The Sons Of Liberty who did the Boston Tea Party and many other actions are so admired and hyped. They are considered by historians to be Domestic Terrorists. Their actions often supported criminals, like Tea smugglers in this instance. The American Revolution was preceded by violent rebellions against the rulers, but also actions against individual citizens whom they didn’t like, very much like what’s happening today. I happen to disagree with that tactic, as did many citizens at the time. What we got after the Revolution was miraculously a country based on laws, rights and freedoms that depend on a loyalty to social contract and good citizenship.

Who Were the Sons of Liberty?

The Sons of Liberty was a secret underground society created due to the social and political fallout of the French and Indian War. The war, which took...

www.battlefields.org

I object to inviting in people (eg the person this thread is about) who do not share our values - our rules of social contract and good citizenship. I wonder why foreigners with a foreign agenda are given expedited citizenship. Their actions here promote societal instability because the aim is revolution. Read history.

We’ve got to wonder why people without a shred of interest in being American are allowed here to work on behalf of foreign interests, to be given a platform and pulpit to communicate their ideas and gain followers, then to be celebrated and coddled as they continue “their work”.

I agree with @ShinyPink that the selective targeting by ICE is racist to its core.

What we’ve been taught are American values amount to fairy tales we tell ourselves. They ignore how we have sown chaos worldwide with our imperialism, racism, and genocides.

Our taxes fund the genocide against Khalil’s family and friends, and the apartheid and violence they’ve endured go back decades.

You can’t create the circumstances that force someone to flee their home country and denounce their lack of values when they come here seeking refuge and speaking out against the destruction we’ve rained down on them.

It’s so odd to me that you acknowledge the genocide but what gets to you is how people speak out about it. Some of us are more outraged about senseless slaughter on a mass scale than disrupted classes.

 

[LightBright]

I read something yesterday and decided to verify it via Census.gov, PewResearch.org, KFF.org, and AAPIdata.com.

CA has the largest foreign-born population. And you know what? We're good! We're actually great! (OK - that last part is my opinion.) The bad here is when racists attack these groups.

Los Angeles County (which is huge!) has the largest population of Armenians outside of Armenia and one of the largest Russian communities outside of NY. CA has the largest Asian population, with Asians being the one group that is mostly foreign born.

What's interesting is that no one is stopping them or rounding them up. Why is that? Why isn't ICE in West Hollywood or Glendale or Koreatown, or Alhambra? It has zero to do with crime and everything to do with skin color - and it's disgusting.

You also might want to check cost-benefit analyses of immigrants.

Here’s a report on undocumented Los Angeles citizens by nationality. It appears to me that they aren’t focusing on Armenians, Russians or Koreans because a much smaller percentage of that population is undocumented, and those populations are smaller.

https://dornsife.usc.edu/eri/wp-content/uploads/sites/41/2023/01/SOILA_2022_Full_v21.pdf

 

[telephone89]

Maybe I missed that part???
NYC is as messed up, and or wonderful as it ever was. The changes I see have far more to do with oligarchy.
Ugly Pencil towers with billion dollar apartments that no one lives in.
Huge swaths of town under construction in a way that bodes terribly for small businesses.
Our office is in midtown.
If the city was underwater, we'd see it.
Come to visit!!!
No swimwear needed

I saw this tweet and thought of your post

https://twitter.com/x/status/1938251939789344968

 

[missy]

America is not a nation "built by immigrants." America was built by settlers. There's a difference.

Settlers ventured out into the wilderness to build a civilization from scratch. The modern
immigrant comes to a place that is already built. Settlers planted the trees. The modern immigrant comes to eat the fruits.

And sneaking into a country doesn’t make you an 'IMMIGRANT' any more than breaking into a house makes you ‘part of the family’

 

[missy]

Our taxes fund the genocide against Khalil’s family and friends, and the apartheid and violence they’ve endured go back decades.

The only genocide happening here in your example is Hamas against Israel. Fact

“
The charge of genocide is meritless. It's particularly galling given that those attacking Israel.
Continue to openly call for the annihilation of Israel and the mass murder of Jews.
“
- Secretary of State Antony Blinken



"Failing to perceive the magnitude of a clear case of genocide ( on October 7) denying it, and attempting to justify it for ANY reason is complicity in the unforgivable crime."

Mosab Hassan Yousef - Son of Hamas Co-Founder


If Israel's war in Gaza qualifies as genocide, it would constitute a striking historical outlier. The first case of genocide triggered by a terrorist attack involving mass slaughter and the taking of hostages. The first in which the genocider permitted humanitarian aid to flow into the territory of its purported victim. The only case in which the perpetrators lacked any prior plan or ideological commitment to extermination.

 

[ShinyPink]

Here’s a report on undocumented Los Angeles citizens by nationality. It appears to me that they aren’t focusing on Armenians, Russians or Koreans because a much smaller percentage of that population is undocumented, and those populations are smaller.

https://dornsife.usc.edu/eri/wp-content/uploads/sites/41/2023/01/SOILA_2022_Full_v21.pdf

Of course they're a smaller percentage! I don't need a study to tell me that. Stop trying to make everything fit the disgusting, racist, xenophobic agenda. It's gross.

Again, if they are truly worried about illegal immigrants, they wouldn't have a target on brown people and troll the streets looking for them. It's much easier to attack a brown person because they "look like" immigrants, as opposed to the white folks.

Excuses to summarily round-up anyone based on their skin color make me sick, as do the people who support it. Disgusting.

 

[ItsMainelyYou]

Unless you're Native or Latino with indigenous roots, you're an immigrant.
Not even the Spanish can claim otherwise.

We should all be antifa in America. That's kind of the point of being American. Anything else is anathema to the entire ideal and foundational premise of this place.
We are all immigrants.

Founders preserve us, but those wordy Deists hated the zealots.

In Separation of Church and State we choose how we pray. Or not.


Only a fascist would use that as a pejorative.

We were literally built by slaves, immigrants, and the WS Manifest Destiny of the New West immigrant settlers which utilized both.

Our Nation of Immigrants | Brookings

Immigration is a foundation of America. No other nation has as large an immigrant population as does the United States. With the important exception of those descended from Native peoples and/or enslaved Africans, few people in this country cannot trace at least part of their ancestry to an...

www.brookings.edu

A Nation Built by Immigrants | George W. Bush Presidential Center

www.bushcenter.org

What does it mean to be a land of immigrants? | The U.S. and the Holocaust | Ken Burns | PBS

Many people have described the United States as “a nation of immigrants,” celebrating the contributions of diverse groups of newcomers to American society and culture. But the story of immigration in American history has never been that clear cut.

www.pbs.org

One of the very first things every American child learns.

The Religious Origins of Manifest Destiny, Divining America, TeacherServe©, National Humanities Center

 

[LightBright]

Of course they're a smaller percentage! I don't need a study to tell me that. Stop trying to make everything fit the disgusting, racist, xenophobic agenda. It's gross.

Again, if they are truly worried about illegal immigrants, they wouldn't have a target on brown people and troll the streets looking for them. It's much easier to attack a brown person because they "look like" immigrants, as opposed to the white folks.

Excuses to summarily round-up anyone based on their skin color make me sick, as do the people who support it. Disgusting.

I see you are triggered by data.

 

[Lookinagain]

America is not a nation "built by immigrants." America was built by settlers. There's a difference.

This statement really confuses me. Isn't it discounting all the contributions of the immigrants of the 19th century? Didn't they help build America. Many of those settlers that you speak of were actually immigrants. They were a huge part of the Western expansion. So how can you say America wasn't built by immigrants? Basically unless indigenous, we all come from immigrants.

 

[ItsMainelyYou]

This statement really confuses me. Isn't it discounting all the contributions of the immigrants of the 19th century? Didn't they help build America. Many of those settlers that you speak of were actually immigrants. They were a huge part of the Western expansion. So how can you say America wasn't built by immigrants? Basically unless indigenous, we all come from immigrants.

Most of our history, actually.

Parts of my family have been here for several hundred years.
Some of the oldest immigrants, you could say.
Still immigrants.
Caucasian people aren't native to the Americas.

Funny how we guests make so much noise about having a better claim, or better color, or 'divine right' or...

Laughably absurd.

 

[JPie]

The only genocide happening here in your example is Hamas against Israel. Fact

“
The charge of genocide is meritless. It's particularly galling given that those attacking Israel.
Continue to openly call for the annihilation of Israel and the mass murder of Jews.
“
- Secretary of State Antony Blinken



"Failing to perceive the magnitude of a clear case of genocide ( on October 7) denying it, and attempting to justify it for ANY reason is complicity in the unforgivable crime."

Mosab Hassan Yousef - Son of Hamas Co-Founder


If Israel's war in Gaza qualifies as genocide, it would constitute a striking historical outlier. The first case of genocide triggered by a terrorist attack involving mass slaughter and the taking of hostages. The first in which the genocider permitted humanitarian aid to flow into the territory of its purported victim. The only case in which the perpetrators lacked any prior plan or ideological commitment to extermination.

The ICC, ICJ, Amnesty International, Israeli Holocaust scholar Dr. Omer Bartov, the UN, Doctors Without Borders, this very long list of Holocaust survivors and their descendants, seven renowned genocide scholars, and hundred of thousands of protestors all agree that Israel is committing genocide.

Frankly, it’s consistent behavior from Israel dating back to the Nakba of 1948.

 

[kenny]

Unless you're Native or Latino with indigenous roots, you're an immigrant.
...

Why, exactly?
Time?

If so, then the same time argument applies even to the first humans to arrive on what today is called America.
I'm just glad the bison here didn't have the same NIMBY selfishness.

Or do only human animals count?
If so, then everyone in America with no Native America blood/genes should also be rounded up indiscriminately (IOW all us white Europeans et.al) by the administration and dumped in whatever random country they can get away with with dumbing in.

All this is as unseemly as Christianity separating into tens of thousands of "denominations", each having "faith" they are the correct one.
Once again, Superiorityitis.

Humans just SUCK!
We always have!
All of us!

But, since humans (like ALL life forms) are nothing more than DNA's way of making more humans ... let's blame DNA.

"Survival of the fittest", means humans are racing towards extinction.
So be it.
It was an interesting game.

 

[ItsMainelyYou]

It's highlighting the ridiculousness of a short span of time. Many Latino and indigenous people have been here thousands of years.
But yes, in the end, it's all a bit absurd.
I do separate the migrations of humans animals in this instance. We're talking people in this thread.

 

[missy]

This statement really confuses me. Isn't it discounting all the contributions of the immigrants of the 19th century? Didn't they help build America. Many of those settlers that you speak of were actually immigrants. They were a huge part of the Western expansion. So how can you say America wasn't built by immigrants? Basically unless indigenous, we all come from immigrants.

Not discounting anything just explaining the differences. It's very clear.
And to be clear "immigrants" who came here wanted to be here because they loved the opportunities our country offered.
This country afforded them so many benefits and a chance at a better life than what they had experienced.
What we are seeing now is entirely different. If you cannot see those differences I cannot help you

The ICC, ICJ, Amnesty International, Israeli Holocaust scholar Dr. Omer Bartov, the UN, Doctors Without Borders, this very long list of Holocaust survivors and their descendants, seven renowned genocide scholars, and hundred of thousands of protestors all agree that Israel is committing genocide.

Frankly, it’s consistent behavior from Israel dating back to the Nakba of 1948.

There is no genocide, apartheid, or ethnic cleansing.

There is just a tiny Jewish state surrounded by despots and Islamic terror groups trying to defend itself.

You are just doing what those who are .... have always done: make up stories about Jews to justify hate.

The rapid escalation in the use of the term "genocide" is not the product of ignorance. No I almost wish it was.
Rather the use of this word is entirely purposeful, with mainstream reporters and essayists engaging in frequent linguistic contortions in order to justify their usage of an inflammatory term. To delegitimize the actions of one side in a conflict and legitimize the actions of the terrorist organization that started the Gaza war. We (and yes I am using the word we) see what you are doing

This could be the only genocide that might plausibly be halted on the spot—not by the genocider, but by the group claiming victimhood
if it weren't so tragic it would be laughable

 

[missy]

@JPie and for anyone else who is interested in facts

"

Why Israel is not committing genocide

First let's define genocide. Genocide is the destruction of any national, racial, ethnic, or religious group. Israel is seeking the destruction of Hamas, a terror group that states its intent to destroy the state of Israel in its founding charter. Israel's campaign in Gaza is an act of self-defense, and the Jewish state goes to great lengths to prevent civilian casualties.

This is not Israel’s objective in Gaza.

Israel’s war is against Hamas: Israel is not seeking to destroy the Palestinian people or the Palestinian population of Gaza, which is what would need to happen in order to correctly apply the term “genocide.”

Their campaign in Gaza is solely against the terrorist organization Hamas. In fact, this type of military campaign is the exact opposite of reflecting an attempt to eliminate the Palestinian population.

What is happening however is that Israel is responding to a genocidal attack by Hamas
Israel’s actions reflect its desire to spare Palestinian civilians from harm, not to deliberately harm them

Israel called for the temporary evacuation of the local population in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, and delayed its ground operation in Gaza for weeks to allow civilians time to heed Israel’s warnings. Before and since it has continued to go to great lengths to indicate safe routes for Palestinian civilians to relocate from northern Gaza. Israel has made it clear to residents that Gaza City has become a battle zone because Hamas terrorists are hiding in terror tunnels located under civilians’ houses

Hamas’ actions are designed to cause harm to Palestinian civilians and blame Israel. And you are swallowing the propaganda

Israel has a right to defend itself against the thousands of Hamas missiles that have been fired on Israeli towns and cities since October 7. Those missiles don’t originate from military bases, as international law dictates. They are fired from civilian neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip, and from inside, next to, and underneath nominally civilian areas in Gaza like residential buildings, schools, mosques, and hospitals. When Hamas takes these actions it transforms what were once protected civilian sites into legitimate military targets.

Hamas puts civilians in harm’s way: While Israel goes to great lengths to avoid harming civilians

*****While Israel takes many steps to minimize civilian harm resulting from its attacks against Hamas targets, as much as it can, it cannot eliminate it entirely. This is a horrible outcome of war, but it is not illegal, and it certainly is not genocide.*****

International law does not prohibit Israel from attacking legitimate military targets even when it is possible or likely that some civilian harm will result

It is unquestionable that many civilians in Gaza have died and even more have suffered immensely since October 7.
The number of “innocents” vs. terrorists that have died: This is impossible to know given that the Ministry of Health in Gaza is under the control of and susceptible to influence by Hamas, and does not separate innocent civilians from fighters in its announced death tolls.

Hamas’ actions are not only aimed at protecting its leaders, weapons, and property but also at vying for leverage in the public opinion war by inflating the number of civilian casualties.

While some of those who claim Israel is engaged in genocide in Gaza are doing so for malign purposes - for example, justifying Hamas' October 7 massacre by claiming Israel is ‘worse,’ many others have been deliberately misled.

Lastly, the goal of ending the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza would be far better served by placing blame for that suffering where it lies...with Hamas - and supporting efforts to bring about its defeat so that Palestinian and Israeli civilians can have the peace and security they all deserve as quickly as possible.

"

 

[telephone89]

Debunked! Don’t Let Them Gaslight You on the Gaza Genocide

Mehdi names and brings receipts on all the experts - including Jewish and Israeli experts - who agree what’s happening in Gaza meets the official definition of a genocide.

zeteo.com

 

[telephone89]

The number of “innocents” vs. terrorists that have died: This is impossible to know given that the Ministry of Health in Gaza is under the control of and susceptible to influence by Hamas, and does not separate innocent civilians from fighters in its announced death tolls.
"

Children are innocents. Not "innocents". Innocents. The IDF murders children daily.

Israel's war in Gaza has killed over 17,000 children. These are the stories of 28 of them

Haaretz

www.haaretz.com

https://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces_fatally_shoot_13_year_old_palestinian_boy_in_the_back_near_ramallah

https://www.unicef.org/emergencies/children-gaza-need-lifesaving-support

 

[Lookinagain]

And to be clear "immigrants" who came here wanted to be here because they loved the opportunities our country offered.
This country afforded them so many benefits and a chance at a better life than what they had experienced.

Well I believe that most immigrants today come for the same reason. Most are hard working individuals, many doing the jobs the average American doesn't want to do, others building businesses, helping the economy, I could go on. Sure, there are a small number who come for different reasons and to disrupt. But that is not the majority. And you seem to be painting them all with the same "bad actor" brush with this statement.

 

[Matata]

Children are innocents. Not "innocents". Innocents. The IDF murders children daily.

Several sources have reported that the number of child amputees in Gaza exceeds anywhere else in the world. Medical care is difficult to achieve since most of the infrastructure is in ruins.

@missy -- the opposing views accusing Israel of genocide in the links. It is tragic that in the eyes of uninvolved observers each side of this conflict appears to be engaging in genocidal behaviors under the guise of each being an existential threat to the other. After generations of fighting and death among and between different factions in the Middle East, it's difficult for outsiders to have patience, sympathy, and understanding for the perpetual battle over who threw the first stone and whose god gave who the rights to a homeland.

The report documents how Israel deliberately inflicted conditions of life on Palestinians in Gaza intended to lead, over time, to their destruction. These conditions were imposed through three simultaneous patterns that repeatedly compounded the effect of each other’s devastating impacts: damage to and destruction of life-sustaining infrastructure and other objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population; the repeated use of sweeping, arbitrary and confusing mass “evacuation” orders to forcibly displace almost all of Gaza’s population; and the denial and obstruction of the delivery of essential services, humanitarian assistance and other life-saving supplies into and within Gaza.

After 7 October 2023, Israel imposed a total siege on Gaza cutting off electricity, water and fuel. In the nine months reviewed for this report, Israel maintained a suffocating, unlawful blockade, tightly controlled access to energy sources, failed to facilitate meaningful humanitarian access within Gaza, and obstructed the import and delivery of life-saving goods and humanitarian aid, particularly to areas north of Wadi Gaza. They thereby exacerbated an already existing humanitarian crisis. This, combined with the extensive damage to Gaza’s homes, hospitals, water and sanitation facilities and agricultural land, and mass forced displacement, caused catastrophic levels of hunger and led to the spread of diseases at alarming rates. The impact was especially harsh on young children and pregnant or breastfeeding women, with anticipated long-term consequences for their health.

Amnesty International concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza

Amnesty International’s research has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.

www.amnesty.org

Between October 7, 2023, and May 1, 2024—the period covered in our report—Israel has killed at least 34,000 Palestinians and injured over 78,000 in Gaza, comprising over 5 percent of Gaza’s population. Of those killed, [around] 14,000 are children—more children in the first four months of Israel’s assault than have been killed in all the world’s conflicts in the last four years. Over 75 percent of Gaza’s population has been forcibly displaced in violation of Geneva Convention rules. Most face acute hunger and many are dying of famine. These are the results of Israel’s complete siege on Gaza, deliberately depriving an entire population of food, water, fuel, and other necessities for survival. In addition, Israel has destroyed over 70 percent of housing in Gaza, every single university, fully or partially destroyed hospitals, health centers, UN facilities, and most of Gaza’s religious and cultural institutions. All of this factual evidence supports the elements of genocide.

Is Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza? New Report from BU School of Law’s International Human Rights Clinic Lays Out Case

The report comes from researchers at the University Network for Human Rights, a consortium of human right centers

www.bu.edu

 

[Rockdiamond]

Something which might not be easy to grasp....the evil forces....they are on all sides it seems.
My daughter lives in Israel.....things are "normal" now....except they're not.
She sent me this essay about how it feels after the ballistic missiles stopped flying

You can't really return to “normal” all at once.
You’ll have to trust me on this.
Out of everyone reading this, I probably have the most experience in this matter.

Something about being a long-time resident of the Gaza envelope—during its quieter years and through countless escalations—has made me an expert in shifting from daily life to emergency mode. I’ve lived through those insane moments when the Home Front Command decides it’s time to "go back to routine," and suddenly, everyone expects you to be who you were two weeks ago, functioning as if nothing ever happened.

So, from my heart:
Don’t fall for that nonsense.
Don’t even try.

It’s state-sponsored gaslighting.

The economy wants you back at full capacity, producing and performing.
But your body, your soul, and your spirit can’t do that.
Just like a car can’t slam from 180 km/h to zero without some braking distance—
if you hit the brakes too hard, there’s whiplash.
And that internal whiplash? It hurts. A lot.

That’s what you’re likely to feel in the coming weeks — internal shock.
You’ll feel exhausted.
You’ll feel sad.
Your body will ache in unexpected places.
You might suddenly get sick.
You’ll function, but less.
You’ll do things, but without joy.
You’ll sleep and still be tired — or you won’t be able to sleep at all, and you won’t know why.
You’ll struggle to let go of control.
You’ll cry for no reason.
You’ll snap at things that don’t make sense.
You might drink too much.
You’ll mostly feel like reality is shifting beneath you — and no one around you understands.

That’s natural.
And you’re not alone.
We’re all there.

The right thing to do now is to adopt radical self-compassion:
Let go of expectations.
Announce to yourself that you’ll only do what you can.
Love yourself — in every turn, every crevice, every fall, every tiny success along the way.

Take it from me — I know this well.
Returning to routine takes time. It demands a healing process.

So give yourself the space and time to recover from everything we’ve been through.

And only when the hostages come home and the war ends —
that’s when the real healing will begin.
People there are cheering the US Pres.

I feel the danger posed by our actions...she feels gratitude.
She is upset at the NY mayoral race. I have read and heard all kinds of bad things about the guy who won the primary, but I don't know what's true.
I do know that the Mayor of NYC does not control foreign policy.
It's all crazy a$$
There's no simple answer.

 

[Sunrises Sunsets]

Something which might not be easy to grasp....the evil forces....they are on all sides it seems.
My daughter lives in Israel.....things are "normal" now....except they're not.
She sent me this essay about how it feels after the ballistic missiles stopped flying

You can't really return to “normal” all at once.
You’ll have to trust me on this.
Out of everyone reading this, I probably have the most experience in this matter.

Something about being a long-time resident of the Gaza envelope—during its quieter years and through countless escalations—has made me an expert in shifting from daily life to emergency mode. I’ve lived through those insane moments when the Home Front Command decides it’s time to "go back to routine," and suddenly, everyone expects you to be who you were two weeks ago, functioning as if nothing ever happened.

So, from my heart:
Don’t fall for that nonsense.
Don’t even try.

It’s state-sponsored gaslighting.

The economy wants you back at full capacity, producing and performing.
But your body, your soul, and your spirit can’t do that.
Just like a car can’t slam from 180 km/h to zero without some braking distance—
if you hit the brakes too hard, there’s whiplash.
And that internal whiplash? It hurts. A lot.

That’s what you’re likely to feel in the coming weeks — internal shock.
You’ll feel exhausted.
You’ll feel sad.
Your body will ache in unexpected places.
You might suddenly get sick.
You’ll function, but less.
You’ll do things, but without joy.
You’ll sleep and still be tired — or you won’t be able to sleep at all, and you won’t know why.
You’ll struggle to let go of control.
You’ll cry for no reason.
You’ll snap at things that don’t make sense.
You might drink too much.
You’ll mostly feel like reality is shifting beneath you — and no one around you understands.

That’s natural.
And you’re not alone.
We’re all there.

The right thing to do now is to adopt radical self-compassion:
Let go of expectations.
Announce to yourself that you’ll only do what you can.
Love yourself — in every turn, every crevice, every fall, every tiny success along the way.

Take it from me — I know this well.
Returning to routine takes time. It demands a healing process.

So give yourself the space and time to recover from everything we’ve been through.

And only when the hostages come home and the war ends —
that’s when the real healing will begin.
People there are cheering the US Pres.

I feel the danger posed by our actions...she feels gratitude.
She is upset at the NY mayoral race. I have read and heard all kinds of bad things about the guy who won the primary, but I don't know what's true.
I do know that the Mayor of NYC does not control foreign policy.
It's all crazy a$$
There's no simple answer.

It can't be easy for you to hear from your daughter that trauma recovery is slow and painful. I pray that she and all those in recovery mode after the long trauma they have endured have the stamina and peace necessary for a good life.

 

[Sunrises Sunsets]

Children are innocents. Not "innocents". Innocents. The IDF murders children daily.

Israel's war in Gaza has killed over 17,000 children. These are the stories of 28 of them

Haaretz

www.haaretz.com

https://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces_fatally_shoot_13_year_old_palestinian_boy_in_the_back_near_ramallah

https://www.unicef.org/emergencies/children-gaza-need-lifesaving-support

That headline should be accurately reframed to read:

"Hamas and Iran's causation of the war in Gaza has inflicted the unintentional death of over 17,000 children in Gaza as Israel works to defend it's country".

Now you have an accurate headline.

 

[Matata]

My daughter lives in Israel.....things are "normal" now....except they're not.

How can things ever be normal when it's required to have a safe room in one's house and when one's subconscious is always wondering when the next strike will come and when one's life seems to be living from one PTSD moment to the next.