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Mar 7, 2024

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The Freedom of Truth - 3/7/24

by Janet Hammer

Free our girls.  Free our women. Free our boys. Free our men. Free our babies! Free them from the filthy bonds that tie them in the darkest tunnels of Gaza. 

 
 
Free us and the rest of the world. Free us all. Free us from the reptilian lies our enemies promulgate against us. Free u…

Mar 6, 2024

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The Neville Chamberlin Prize in Appeasement - 3/6/24

by Janet Hammer

DOES ANYONE EVEN WANT TO READ THIS ?!?!?!!
 
This is what I screamed this morning at my home audience ….Sam. 
 
I am totally frustrated. 
 
 
I’m frustrated that the media frames the news as it is time to move onto the next cycle and call this war a “Wrap.”
 
Reall…

Mar 5, 2024

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TRUTH or: The days you hate yourself - 3/5/24

by Janet Hammer

The days you hate yourself. Yes. There are those days.
 
You are guilty. You are marked.
 
Sam worked with a Jewish woman who escaped Warsaw in 1939 just before it fell to the Nazis. These were her words. She said that in the 1930s you couldn’t escape these thoughts however insane th…

Mar 4, 2024

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The kids are tired - 3/4/24

by Janet Hammer

The children are tired
 
The parents are tired
 
Is everyone tired?
 
Sam’s weekly zoom meetings teaching English to young teens in our sister region of Israel (Hadera-eiron) is a lot of fun. 
 
Part of the fun is the unpredictableness of it all. Where will the conversation go…

Mar 3, 2024

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You be the judge or: When Darkness Declares You As Its Enemy - 3/3/24

by Janet Hammer

Dear readers,
 
After days and seeming weeks of paralysis in early October Sam and I grew more certain of our role in this horrific extended moment of Hamas terror and its consequences. 
 
We came to realize what is perhaps obvious. There’s nothing we can do about the world situatio…