Tuesday

 

Breakfast on this first morning of Passover: duck eggs scrambled with extra sharp cheddar cheese, and a matzah and charoset sandwich. OMG. Linda had her charoset on raisin bread. A raisin bagel might be just right with it. Mug of hot & black.

Picture, Israeli soldiers walk past a house destroyed in the October 7 attack on kibbutz Beeri, Israel, near the border with Gaza: anamnesis, I am not forgetting that, for all its unspeakable horrors, this is what the war in Gaza is all about. Yes, rage phases into merciless searing vengeance that will ensure the cycle goes on for untold more generations to come, but this is what it's about.

For all the pro-Palestinian riots that are supposed to pass for demonstrations, and arrests at Yale and elsewhere, and unconscionable rise of antisemitism, October 7 is what it's all about. Israel is doing what outraged humans do in wartime: either the enemy will surrender or the enemy will be destroyed beyond ability to regroup.

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For those who've not been there with rage and vengeance, there was a favorite song that we sang as part of our daily morning devotions at Cove School in the early 1940s,

Let's remember Pearl Harbor
As we go to meet the foe.
Let's remember Pearl Harbor
As we did the Alamo.
We will always remember how they died for Liberty.
Let's remember Pearl Harbor
And go on to victory.

Our remembrance culminated in August 1945 

with our exultation in total victory. Like Israel now, everyone was doing what humans do in wartime: mercilessly destroying the enemy. We have been there. We are all human,

but, oh my, the cries of the self-righteous.

Protesting is a human right, but how their protest is enhanced by jeering at to antagonize the police is beyond me.

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Yesterday on a different computer that I took to the blood lab to write while sitting in the reception area waiting for Linda, I did a reflection, commentary, Bible study on the gospel for this coming Sunday, Easter 5B. In his Farewell Discourse at John 15:1-8, Jesus tells his disciples, "I AM the vine." It was decent, but Linda came out before I got to Publish, and from there we went to Lowe's to search the garden shop for gardenias, so it's lost somewhere in the vapors of another day.

Tuesday, 23 Apr 2024 and not holding,

RSF&PTL

T88&c