Thanks to my beloved brother, Will Hudson (pedagogue/poet/photographer) for pointing out this thought provoking first-hand account from someone who lives in Haifaz. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us here in the Ether.

…The conversations I’ve had about these issues since returning to Haifa have been emotional, to say the least. Often, talking about life in Gaza is incorrectly interpreted as a denial that Israel has a right to self-defense. Friends whose political beliefs I respect are blindly re-posting political cartoons that are racist, de-humanizing oversimplifications of a tragic and deeply complex issue.  It is appallingly stupid to suggest that Jews in Kiryat Malachi died because they are Zionist occupiers, or that the four children of the al Dalou family died because their parents didn’t love them enough to move them away from Hamas militants…

Read the whole post @ Okay, so I noticed the conflict… | circles in the sky.