💥Long story short, Netanyahu's Minister of Culture & Sport (😂) Miki Zohar says Israel should flout international humanitarian law because Hamas does.

I talked to מעוז معوز Maoz soon after his parents were killed to offer my condolences.

I was amazed with his response; “I am crying for my parents & for people killed in Gaza. I don’t want a war of revenge”.

Since October, I lost some friends to nationalism & hatred. But with

💥Libby Polin-Goldberg, sister of Hersh, a video of whom Hamas released yesterday, protesting by military headquarters in Tel Aviv on the 202nd day of her brother's captivity.
(Nevet Kahana)

💥Joe Biden surrounded by the Idan family children including little Abigail, 4, the freed & orphaned hostage now embracing Biden from tiptoes atop the Resolute Desk.
💥Sara Netanyahu, 65, photoshopped to look like a 25-year-old Kardashian + smirking hubby with montage of hostages

💥Families of Israeli hostages block Begin Street outside military headquarters in Tel Aviv.
(Gilad Furst)

💥One year ago today, Hamas' military wing released a video of the organization's naval commando fighters on an operational mission near [Israel's] Zikim Beach.

💥Grandpa Joe Biden meets released hostage Abigail Idan. Grandpa Bibi (yes, despite all appearances he's a grandpa) has yet to invite the little girl.

💥Gershon Baskin on Israel's Marx Brothers government.

💥'Go back to Belarus! Go back to Poland!' yells a 'pro-Palestinian' protester at Jewish students leaving Columbia University last night.

💥Biden leads letter cosigned by 18 leaders (Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Thailand, UK) demanding release of citizens held by Hamas. No, not Netanyahu. timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry…

💥Hamas political official Khalil al-Hayya tells the Associated Press the Islamist milita would agree to a 5-year (or longer) truce and would lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established along pre-1967 borders.

🍸My heart pitter-pattered as I got to the end of Gary Shteyngart's log of Manhattan martinis and discovered that in addition to Le Rock's clean, crisp & cold martinis he also loved the inexplicably delicious leaks vinaigrette en papillote, 'circumcised tableside.' (Smoked mussels

In 1977, Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most influential 20th c. Spanish-language writers, told William F. Buckley (whose first language was Spanish) his reasons for feeling, age 78, that English was 'far finer' than his native tongue. Right or wrong, I love his savor for language

💥Tel Aviv streets blocked

💥Police in Jerusalem shoot skunk water indiscriminately, contrary to police standing orders and risking the health and even lives of those targeted.

💥In 1939 Jews had no state to protect them. Netanyahu, the head of such a sovereign state, loves nothing more than telling Israelis they are victims of a new Holocaust. He seems unaware it is a certificate of his own failure. Now he says American college campuses are

💥In front of the defense ministry in Tel Aviv right now

💥NSA Jake Sullivan says President Biden just met with Abigail Idan, 4-year-old Israeli-American whose parents were murdered on October 7 and was released from Hamas captivity in November.

💥CNN reports the White House saw this video two days before Hamas released it.