time-turner

In easy memory, the only way to get your news was to read the newspaper, listen to the radio, go to the Ritz Theatre and watch the newsreels. This morning the news can be read and watched anywhere in the world real time as it happens, rocket by rocket, on one’s choice of sources with a magic marvel on one's lap. At the moment, The Jerusalem Post.



Most Americans probably have affinity for Jews and the Jewish people, though not necessarily thinking Israel is always right. The brutality goes both ways in Palestine and seems beyond settling except temporarily by unending ceasefires in response to endless flareups, and why can’t everybody just be nice doesn’t cool deep-seated hatreds. 

With inexcusable history an unchangeable error but fact of life, Israel needs to roll cross the border into Gaza, take down Hamas, destroy all fortresses and remove all weapons. 



In a Harry Potter world a time-turner might turn history back to April 1945, then as war reparations and Holocaust justice, deport the German population for dispersion throughout the world, resettle Germany as Israel, and leave the Palestinians alone. Anyone who is not Biblically illiterate knows that such would have been a scriptural settlement of post-WWII issues.

Absent a time-turner, endless blood.

C1 and C2 are taken with my time-turner that Amy brought me during my time before +Time. They can’t have it, because it’s my own treasure and charm and its place is hanging on the wall beside my bed. But this week they will come over from Tallahassee for our annual Thanksgiving Saturday, and can hold and play with it. Who knows.

T+ thankfully in +Time