No Ceasefire Yet

I spent the weekend quietly with Sue. We went for a walk around Mt. Tabor Park, a dormant volcano (now little more than a hill) named, by early white settlers in Oregon, for the Biblical mountain in what is now Israel. 

I’m sure the local indigenous people had a name for the place before the genocidal campaigns of the early settlers who felt entitled to re-name it. I wish we could bottle up some peace and safety to send to the people of Palestine and Israel. 

The nightmare at Al-Shifa hospital continues. If those newborns survive, they will be deeply scarred by this trauma.