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Hekate

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4. Tom Friedman is a very observant man....
Mon May 17, 2021, 02:29 PM
May 2021

My husband and I were talking about this yesterday, only from the standpoint of “who the hell does this profit?” because we could see the shape of the nasty back and forth, but without benefit of Friedman’s depth of knowledge.

DH is in some anguish about these events: as he says, Israel as a modern nation was born the year after we were, and we are watching an arc that could bring about its self-destruction in our own lifetimes.

And for what? As in the US, for the meanest of reasons.

Here’s hoping





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