Israelis and Palestinians Killing and Dying

First thoughts on the first two days

Events are moving faster than I can process them but I want to share some initial thoughts before I start facing what’s happened today. Two related posts are ready that I might schedule for tomorrow morning and evening. Last night I made a long recording trying to untangle some complications of history and of moral evaluation that I might put into a new recording or new essay but are offered at the bottom of this post in more ragged form. And these were my initial reactions the morning and afternoon of October 7th:

1) Fear for Israeli civilians and Israeli revenge

2) I won’t see the sun set

3) Going global

Here is last night’s attempt at untangling and evaluating the long history of the present conflagration [was removed since it really botched 1948 which is really important.]