My friend lives in Gaza City. Her dad waa killed during the first few days of the “ceasefire.” Her little brother is ten and he doesnt speak anymore. He is the sweetest little boy.

We were in almost-daily communication but she and her family had to move to a new apartment in an area that suffered a lot more damage so there is no internet. Her house and her mom’s chicken farm was destroyed and no one can work (my friend is a lawyer) or go to school (she has two brothers in college, two in high school, and one in elementary).

She told me there are still a lot of attacks and there is no real ceasefire. Gaza isn’t really in the news here in America anymore, which is discouraging to me.

My friend’s people are being exterminated and their homeland (they have no nation) has been obliterated.

Israel is a fascist ethnostate. It’s surreal. To be clear, I am not citicizing Jews writ large or Israelis for BEING Jewish. This is about their actions and their own statements.

I know it’s nothing compared to what the Palestinians are actually going through, but it’s been hard to deal with. I don’t know anyone else with friends there so it isn’t very helpful to talk to people I know about it. They all just get uncomfortable; I don’t blame them but it’s just not comforting.

Yeah that’s wild 😆

“All of us vital businesspeople are gonna leave and then you’ll be sorry!” just sounds better than “Those of us who make more than two million dollars don’t want a two-percent income tax increase!” It was obvious hyperbole but it does make me chuckle now 😄

How is it going lately? I am in the same boat RE relying on muscle memory. I want to get a teacher - do you have one? I wonder what a piano teacher would say…