"Are you okay?" - Yes. "Do you feel safe?" - Yes. "Has anything changed?" Well, our tomato plants are massive! But that has nothing to do with what you probably think is the elephant in the room...or in this case our blog. Seeing as we write about most of the interesting things in our life it probably seems crazy to you all that we haven't written about the news here which is consuming the headlines around the world. But that is because - apart from work life this has had almost no effect on us!
What are we hearing about it? We are hearing pretty much the same stuff you are because we read the NYTimes which had a good article here. But, we are also exposed to the other side which you may not have heard in the Israeli news here. I'm not endorsing either - just showing you what we see.
What do you think? From an academic perspective there were many mistakes made by all parties involved and a lot that can be learned. And while this may seem obvious to us that the situation is complex and no party is fully innocent, the reaction of many here is "No, please tell me what Israel did wrong?!? We give them tons of aid!" or from the other side "Israel doesn't let anything into Gaza!" and "They attacked peace activists!"
Are things different there now? Not really. We still went to the market last week and bought veggies from a Jewish Israeli and bread from his Arab Israeli neighbor. The horrible Israeli drivers still cut me off on the way to work and the park was still flooded with families. The cat left footprints all over my car, our garden is growing, it is hot and we miss you all! (Work is a little more hectic, but that is it.)
Hm..So how is the weather? - No, there is no elephant in the room. All is well in Tel Aviv! You should come visit us!!!
No comments:
Post a Comment