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IN HEBREW THERE’S AN EXPRESSION: כל הכבוד. Kol hakavod. Literally it means “all the honor.” It’s like saying “Good job!” People say it when you’ve done something good, something positive, something meaningful, and it’s gone well.
This morning as I read the news about Israel’s latest airstrike on Gaza, which hit the European Hospital in Khan Younis and killed 20+ people, including journalists, all I could think was: אין כבוד. Ain kavod. There is no honor, nothing positive, about this latest devastating attack.
This is the opposite of meaningful. This is nothing to celebrate. It’s something to be ashamed of.
As my grandmother would have said, it’s a shanda. Nothing is gained and much is lost in these airstrikes, these killings. I worry about the souls of the young men and women who are ordered to carry them out. I worry about the souls of the rest of us who watch it happening.
Enough genocide. Enough.
There are no more words.
When this is over, what will remain of the Diaspora? (This is my question, and I'm not asking for an answer.). How will we choose between Israeli values, and Enlightenment values? Is it time for a schism?
Sure there are words: "Free Palestine from Hamas and Islamism."