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Blogland is a kind of parallel universe. People write about their lives, and that's what I love about it, the little details of everyday life, the flowers blooming in the garden, the food, the joys and worries, and sometimes also real troubles, illnesses and heartaches. A human encounter with people we will never meet in real life.
But sometimes it's a hard and cruel place where I encounter evil. For a few days now I've been trying to ignore it because I really have much bigger and more important things to worry about, like the moments when I could die at any moment from the ruins of my house or from the impact of a ballistic missile carrying a lot of small bombs that explode far away. But I will write about it anyway.
Most people here in Blogland are wonderful and good, I think there are only two ladies who irritate me right now. One of them suffers from hatred of Israel and latent anti-Semitism, I noticed this a long time ago, when she was unable to feel compassion for us after October 7th and gave it an open expression. This week she wrote that a hospital here was not blown up, she heard about it on the BBC or some other station. The truth is that the hospital was shelled and its wards were destroyed, there were no casualties because they were prepared for this in advance. The disdain and distortion of the truth are part of the same syndrome of anti-Semitism. Our lives are worth less in her eyes because we are Jews and Israelis. I have no other explanation. The second woman is simply a blogger with no real knowledge. She has to express an opinion on a subject she understands nothing about, and I didn't find any humanistic side in her either, even though she declares herself as such. All in all, two women who irritate me greatly and I wonder why I dedicated a post to them. I answer to myself that I did it because they represent a much broader and more dangerous phenomenon.
In the picture - our sky after the interceptors head out towards the missiles. It's above my house.
It's got to be hard to read about people in safe places writing about a situation that is endangering you (and millions of other people on all sides of the conflict) every day. It's interesting that people who aren't there can be so confident in their beliefs. Maybe, as you said, there are deeper reasons for that overconfidence, or maybe they believe their "stories" in order to make sense of their world. In any case, as always, I'm sorry you're living through this and I can't imagine how scary it must be.
ReplyDeleteThere are many people who will always believe a version of events that coincides with their values and innate prejudices.
ReplyDeleteThose of us who are not there to experience the reality cannot .. and should not .. simply parrot the popular narrative.
One tries not to have too strong opinions on complex topics about which we know little.
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DeleteYou know who this lady is.
DeleteMisinformation abounds and it travels which is not good for anyone.
ReplyDeleteI am so disappointed that a second conflict is heating up.
The sky above your home filled with missiles and bombs has to be frightening. When will peace return?
Susan,We are all waiting for this time.
DeleteI have been worried about you. You're under constant attack. I'm glad you're posting even if it is about trolls.
ReplyDeleteLinda, Thank you, this time these are not trolls but real people who have very popular blogs here, as strange as it may sound.
DeleteYou and your beloveds are dear to me, Yael. May your voice continue to be heard all around our troubled world through your blog.
ReplyDeleteam, I will continue, largely because of people like you who bring the positive side of this parallel world here.
DeleteI care! I don't pretend to understand this nightmare you are living through and I don't really have a view politically, I just wish it would stop and can't watch what little is on tv as its too terrible to see this suffering. I find blogland at times a bit of escapism, my own blog is only a fluffy version of the nice side of me I want to show, its not entirely real. I hope you won't feel some of us followers are too shallow to bother with, your blog is an important record of what is happening and it's interesting, it generates emotive responses and I think about your posts long after reading them, it's a window on reality in a blinkered world.
ReplyDeleteElderberry, I thank you so much for this comment, I really need this side that you bring here, there is no superficiality here, it is understandable that we do not present all the dimensions of our lives here and that is okay, and again, I thank you so much.
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