Gil I moved to Jerusalem 15 years ago. I’ve never thought once about moving back to the land of my birth. I love this land. This city. This country. I love the people(s) in it – Israelis, Palestinians, immigrants, sojourners. All of them. (Yes, all of the above sometimes frustrate me, irritate me, challenge me, even … Read more
“But Israel won’t be a Jewish state anymore!” Can you, a born Jew, even coherently define “Jewish” without contradicting yourself? No? Maybe we need to be able to do that first before we can have an actually Jewish state? Maybe a Jewish state that will keep Jewish people safe…… isn’t what you think it is? … Read more
A songAscending the heightsWith my love’s returnWith the settling of ZionWe were like dreamersOf green pathsAnd sweetened watersOf light and windEmpowered mindsGathered and spreadBetween river and seaOf silicon and woodForests draped upon hillsOf liquid flightOn gleaming railsThrough the wildernessOf telepaths and readersSpinning holographic visionsUnder the endless starsOf warm firesKept burning through the digital nightGlowing circuits … Read more
Floating in crisis and chaosFeeling in my depthsThe chasm between this moment and the nextSacred scraps of burned scrollsSurround me, a dark haloJust out of reachThe letters, still alight,Ascend ever upwardsNo longer trappedIn the grave’s tomeBut freedFor the next chapter === They clutch at my country, my cause, my religion – Should I hand overMy … Read more
tl;dr Vote your conscience, vote your brain, vote for a party that is actually building a future for our children instead of rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. === “Only the right-wing can keep us safe!” And they can’t even do that right? “You have to vote for a party that will definitely cross … Read more
The joy of knowing you – When the honeymoon is overWhen the storms have swallowed usAnd passedWhen we’ve faced each otherAnd ourselvesAnd lived – Is the joy that grows with the grassAnd shines with the sunBlows with the windThat brings clouds, and sends themOn their way The joy of drawing from the wellOf human tears … Read more
🤦🤦🤦 The more I think about it, the more it seems like people who insist that separation into two bordering states* is an effective solution for two warring populations, but have convinced themselves that ending the war and integrating the populations into one shared state is a pipedream doomed to fail, are either delusional or … Read more
An armed gang surrounds a family home, drunk on power and violence. The police and the army stand by, waiting for orders from a man who made his career organizing and supporting armed gangs, and was welcomed into the government by a man who made his career inciting people against each other. This, too, is … Read more
This is your daily reminder that treating human workers like expendable machine parts is exploitative. Unionize, my friends.
“It’s just a stochastic parrot” Yeah and the whole entire world wide web is just 1s, 0s, and logic gates… Chill out people