Happy Holidays

 Today is Xmas Day - so merry Xmas to everyone.  Tonight is the first candle of Hanukah - so Hanukah Sameach to everyone.  This is the time of miracles - please dear God - may we all be blessed with the miracle of inner light and understanding.

Tomorrow I leave for the airport at 2.15 am.  I have a 6.00 a.m. flight to Brussels.  2.30 am is about the same time the Houthis have been sending missiles - waking everyone well before dawn to go to the shelters.  I PRAY there isn't an alarm on the way to the airport. I pray there won't be any alarms. No alarms, no missiles, no shrapnel.......

I am meeting a dear dear friend from Texas (of all places) and we will spend a week in Bruges.  I return on January 1st 2025, and my blog will continue then.

Love to everyone, and please all be well, and safe,   🥰. and kind to one another.

The Sky Above Israel Today

 The heavens are waiting for the hostages to be returned.

Did Bibi see the sky today?

Please come home. 

(These were actually trails created by Israeli Pilots)

Warm and Dry

Well, we had about 4 days of winter.  That seems to be it for winter and rain, unless January and February bring much needed rain.

And the hostages remain in the tunnels of Gaza.  And Bibi has begun his circus in the courts.  And the Justice Minister wants to revive the Judicial Coup. And Ben Gvir and Smotrich don't want the hostages back so that they can carry out their ethnic cleansing and settle in Gaza. And Bashar Assad is gone, and Israel is obliterating Syria's stockpile of weapons, and Erdogan has set his sights on Syria. 

And the hostages remain in the tunnels of Gaza.

And hundreds of thousands continue to protest in Tel Aviv, in Jerusalem, in Caesarea, in Beer Sheva, in Raanana, in Cfar Saba, at junctions and bridges all over the country.  No one listens, no one cares.

And new laws are being proposed - against freedom of speech, of arrests without trial - South Africa revisited. Wild settler rampage and pillage properties and villages in the West Bank. Some people have returned to the destroyed north, others wont go back yet. 

And drones fly and hit buildings and aren't detected.

And prices everywhere continue to reach staggering heights. More increases are coming in January - mortgages, insurance, water, electricity. 

And the hostages remain in the tunnels of Gaza.

And soldiers continue to get killed. And no one knows what is going to happen.