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The Weight of Seeing

JL;DR SUMMARY A Jerusalem mother reflects on the complexities of living amid tension, caught between the relative safety of her own life and the harrowing realities faced by civilians in Gaza. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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JerusalemGazaHostagesSafetyFearIron DomeConflictChildrenPrivilegeVulnerability

Places mentioned

Jerusalem, Israel
"In the gathering dusk of a Jerusalem evening, I walk home with my daughters from gymnastics, their small hands trading turns with mine, their bodies still humming with the evenings exertions."
Jerusalem, Israel
"Stephanie Pell (J.D., M.P.H.) lives in Jerusalem with her spouse and three children."
Gaza, Palestinian Territories
"Israelianxiety into justification for unbounded violence, that collapse all nuance into a simple story of good versus evil? How to hold our real vulnerability alongside our real complicity? The narrative of perpetual victimhood, seamlessly stitching October 7th into a tapestry of historical trauma, serves those who would use it to justify the unjustifiable the bombs falling on Gaza, the children buried in pajamas under rubble, the starving of a nation, the slow strangling of hope for any future that might hold us all."

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