JL;DR SUMMARY After the death of Saadia Dery, a soldier in the reserves and aide to the author's son who was killed in Gaza, there was a gathering at the Dery home in the West Bank where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials paid their respects. 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'.