On this grey and steamy summer morning, with dark rain-filled clouds obscuring the horizon, months after the last of our daffodils died leaving thin and shrivelled stems, the bulbs waiting to be dug up and stored away until we put them back into the earth next autumn, I wonder whether Wordsworth thought himself to be, in the words of Percy Bysshe Shelley, his fellow Romantic poet, `
Thank you. I don’t think we’ve met but my wife Ruth Sput was a good friend of Rita.
We live in Israel now. The whole country is traumatized. Not only Jews but Israeli Druze, Bedouins, Arabs....
I watch the international news. I am shocked that when I watch the news from Gaza I shout ‘Hamas, you did this, why does no one else understand this’ I watch on Australian television Jews demanding a ceasefire when this means that Israel would no longer be able to defend itself on the future. My friends, their children, their grandchildren, are in Gaza fighting. I know they don’t want to kill the innocent civilians but Hamas has made it a near impossible war to fight.
Michael, I’m sorry, I had to get this out. Thank you for reminding me of my beloved lake poets.
Australian Jews support Israel. We are continuing voicing our unwavering support for Israel and are just as traumatised as you by the moral fog that has enveloped the political and mainstream media narrative when framing the current Israel- Hamas war. I must say that nothing hurts me more than listening to those diaspora Jews who are assisting in the spread of mendacious misinformation about Israel's plight like Anthony Loewenstein, Louise Adler and many others who discredit Israel's voice in its struggle for survival. It's disheartening and ugly ...
Thank you. I don’t think we’ve met but my wife Ruth Sput was a good friend of Rita.
We live in Israel now. The whole country is traumatized. Not only Jews but Israeli Druze, Bedouins, Arabs....
I watch the international news. I am shocked that when I watch the news from Gaza I shout ‘Hamas, you did this, why does no one else understand this’ I watch on Australian television Jews demanding a ceasefire when this means that Israel would no longer be able to defend itself on the future. My friends, their children, their grandchildren, are in Gaza fighting. I know they don’t want to kill the innocent civilians but Hamas has made it a near impossible war to fight.
Michael, I’m sorry, I had to get this out. Thank you for reminding me of my beloved lake poets.
Australian Jews support Israel. We are continuing voicing our unwavering support for Israel and are just as traumatised as you by the moral fog that has enveloped the political and mainstream media narrative when framing the current Israel- Hamas war. I must say that nothing hurts me more than listening to those diaspora Jews who are assisting in the spread of mendacious misinformation about Israel's plight like Anthony Loewenstein, Louise Adler and many others who discredit Israel's voice in its struggle for survival. It's disheartening and ugly ...
One is minded of the useful idiots of the soviet era.
Brilliant and heartbreaking ..
Beautiful 🥹❤️