“What do I think of Israel?”

Last night as we’re walking, Mike beat up Volvo stops by us walking, he lowers his window and ask us: “What about Israel?” I’m taken aback. 

My Scottish neighbor looks and sounds upset an he goes “...my two daughters are Jewish and so is their Mum and what Hamas caused on October 7 is terrible…” 

I don’t know what to say, knowing darn well that Hamas and Hezbollah are the direct consequences of Israel subjugation and humiliation of the Palestinian people. So the interaction goes nowhere. 

I’m unprepared to have one and as a result there is no discussion where Mike wouldn’t say I’m just antisemitic. 

Tomorrow, we’ll talk about the danger and the fallacies of exceptionalism Israel and many others fall into…