WE'VE SEEN THIS SHOW BEFORE

How about some boring repetition? There's a barrage of rather ineffective rockets from Gaza (over 600 fired so far) which succeeded in killing three people in Israel. The IDF, in guided retaliatory bombing, takes out several Hamas targets, with 15 fatalities. Everybody on Facebook you know wails angrily why this isn't major news, why must people (photos of residents cowering in airwells) live like this, why isn't the media covering it?

"Why is this outrage NOT on the frontpage?!?"

Yeah, well, it's boring. Unless you have kin over there, you are already heartily sick and tired of it. As well as uninterested.


I sincerely hope that Jonathan, Yossi, and several other friends get through this unscathed. Susan in Jerusalem, having shown herself a Trumpite and a racist, can go hang herself, though.


For the rest, I already know what's going to happen. Rocket. rocket, rocket. Bomb, bomb, bomb. Two to ten times as many Pally dead and wounded as Israelis. Turkey screams about crimes against humanity, the United States says Israel has every right to blah blah blah, Jeremy Corbyn and the European Left wring their pathetic little hands about what those horrid Jews are doing, the United Nations issues some angry pointless resolutions for the feelies of it all, and Benyamin Netanyahu makes several boastful and gloating comments that are altogether in bad taste. Racism and bigotry from the expected corners. Plus flat-out lies and heart-rending pictures.
Ilhan Omar, Rashida T'Laib say stupid things. So does AOC.
Flagwaving by the usual idiots.

After this is all over, we can go back to endlessly arguing over hummus, cherry tomatoes, and amba.
All of which are quite explicably more popular than ful mudammas and molokhia.


So, again to clarify: explosions, which I hope Jonathan and Yossi and others survive, but if dingus Susan in Jerusalem walks in front of something that goes 'boom', that is perfectly all right.
Then, chickpeas.




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