In a recent interview, Yara El-Ghadban (Palestinian-Canadian novelist, with a PhD in anthropology) made an interesting answer to this recurring question: by asking her "do you condemn Hamas?", the interviewer was questioning her humanity, and she didn't have to prove or justify her humanity.
I find this point of view interesting, because it turns the question on its head. Since the answer is obvious, what does it mean to ask this question, and why is it only asked of certain people?
I'm sorry to read that. I've seen in other posts you're jew, and living in Israel. I can't imagine how hard is it. I hope things will calm down and you'll find peace.
I don't know what's worse: never having eaten plum pie, or knowing it's going to take a year to eat some again.
There are fancy recipes, but I cook as my grandma teached my mom: a rustic pie with shortcrust and plums.
The secret is to prevent the juice to soak the dough. So you slightly precook the shortcrust, and you put the half plums with the skin on the bottom (so the skin acts as a little cup for the juice).
When the pie is ready, you can sprinkle the pie with powdered sugar if you like.
Indeed, but maybe it's a chance to be exemplary, by spreading moderate and compassionate words (for all victims, on both sides).
My only concern is the mental health of the fellow beeples who chose this instance because they needed a bubble of kindness, far for the cruel real world.
This is a loophole that the Minister of the Interior has been discovering and exploiting for months: he does something whose legality is highly questionable (like banning a demonstration), and by the time his decision is legally challenged and overturned, he's got what he wanted and there are no legal consequences for him.
You're right, the situation has deteriorated over the last 30 years.
But what I don't agree with is the idea that it's impossible to establish lasting peace in the region.
Otherwise, we have to accept that their only conceivable future is permanent conflict until genocide arrives. That's morally unacceptable to me; we can't settle for horror.
In the 90's, the Oslo Accords was a step forward between Israel (Yitzhak Rabin, and his opponent Shimon Peres) and Palestine Liberation Organization (Yasser Arafat) to find a way to live peacefully together.
They shared the Nobel Peace Prize for that. And it cost Yitzhak Rabin his life, as he was murdered by a far-right terrorist who wanted to stop the peace process.
The world is insane. A friend of mine died of cancer. And I've had some kind of flu/cold for a week.
On the bright side, I finished my Becky Chambers' books, fixed the extruder on my 3D printer and made the last plum pie of the season.
I so wish this was the kind of daily life all human beings enjoy.
Unions don't work the same way in all european countries.
In France, the union I belong to is organized by local company and public service, with a spawling system of dual cascading federations by geographic sector and economic sector.
And there are several competing national union organizations which overlap. I don't know exactly how the other ones are organized
I'm pretty sure that if we, as a specie, stopped wasting money to kill each other, we could give food, shelter, healthcare and education to each of us.
And there would still be enough money left to found this kind of scientific projetcs.
Because they don't need to, as long as we keep believing their nice promises without looking if their old promises have been kept.