Today's Monday Media Review is a rough one.
In it, we discuss a recent incident at an Israeli school, and a recent documentary about a settler youth cult in the West Bank.
It should be much easier to talk about how young people have been victimized by this war, but because propaganda has trained people to rationalize the deaths of "enemy" children, it's harder than ever to talk about how this war poisons everyone involved.
And yet, that's precisely what we need to do.
https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/what-we-have-done-to-our-children
@MLClark This is superb. I have extended family in the very area that you are writing about. Most people have no clue what is going on.
Oh, I hope your extended family is safe.
There are *so* many folks who have been underserved by local laws restricting media access and discourse, and who are just trying to raise their families as best they can.
It must be so frightening to catch hate from others for things you don't even know are happening around you.
We all need *so* much more empathy with one another, if we're to get through this with our humanity intact.
Best wishes to you all in the fray. 🫂
What an anxiety you must be living with, while waiting to see them safely landed!
May everything go as smoothly as possible with those flight plans - and may there be just the most wonderful of reunions, once everyone's close at hand.
Take good care of your heart while waiting for that moment - and thank you for sharing the stress you're moving through right now.
You and yours deserve a better world.
@MLClark Unfortunately, after flight cancellations, airline changes, and delays, their flights were cancelled. Thanks again for your excellent article. The death toll in Gaza yesterday is not getting much coverage with the debate, Lebanon, Iran, and the aftermath of Helene.
Oh, what a heartbreak for you and yours.
This next week is going to be filled with memorial news that could go either way when it comes to recognizing the ongoing nightmare in Gaza. Chances are, many folks are going to use this time to tune out all other suffering, because our world is very bad at holding trauma in tension.
I hope you and yours have the resources to endure the coming days.
I wish you all the reunion soon that you deserve, & great strength in the interim.
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@MLClark We are hoping their flights here aren't cancelled this week. With the escalations we are seeing we are extremely concerned.