Today I got up fairly early and ran round the village. It was quite cool but not as cold as yesterday. The wind had dropped. A friend I ran into told me there had been frost earlier. I wasn’t up and about to see that.
Later I went to have lunch with an old friend. This was a second try as last week she double-booked herself and forgot to turn up for lunch to celebrate her own birthday. We set the world to rights … well, our bit of the world.
Later still, as the sun was shining and it was by now quite warm, Phil and I went out to walk the bluebell woods. At last they were quite magnificent. Well worth a walk.
Sorry. Still no photo!
Skimming the news later I read that an 87-year-old holocaust survivor, Stephen Kapos, has been called to a police station to be interviewed under caution of protesting the Gaza genocide.
According to Jewish Voice for Labour:
“As a small boy in Hungary in 1944, Kapos remembers his mother and aunts cutting out yellow stars and sewing them onto his clothes. He remembers hiding from the Arrow Cross fascist movement, which rounded up Jews, shot them and dumped them into the Danube.
He remembers the clandestine shuffle between safe houses in Buda, when Jewish boys were spirited from one place to another to avoid detection from the local SS officers as the advancing Russian army approached and fighting engulfed them.
He remembers the panic of his aunt, who was in charge of a group of boys pretending to be war orphans, and had been invited to sit down for a mournful Christmas meal with Wehrmacht officers.”
No comment.
Meanwhile I read that the far-right Israeli finance minister has been speaking at a conference in the occupied West Bank settlement of Ofra. He told them “Gaza will be entirely destroyed, civilians will be sent to … the south to a humanitarian zone without Hamas or terrorism, and from there they will start to leave in great numbers to third countries.
He recently said that Israel will not withdraw from Gaza even if there is another hostage deal.
On the other hand, a senior Hamas official has said that they are not interested in further talks on a new Gaza ceasefire while Israel continues what he called its “starvation war”,
Israel cut off all humanitarian aid from entering Gaza nine weeks ago and later resumed its military offensive, saying it was putting pressure on Hamas to release hostages.
But Bassem Naim said there was "no point in any negotiations" while the blockade remained in place.
That sounds like a stalemate.
Life goes on. Stay safe and well, everyone!
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