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Comments on: Not one to comment https://www.didyoulearnanything.net/blog/2010/12/16/not-one-to-comment/ An archived blog about education, language, peace, and other fine things Mon, 26 Jun 2023 19:09:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 By: Chava Gal-Or https://www.didyoulearnanything.net/blog/2010/12/16/not-one-to-comment/#comment-117 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 23:38:03 +0000 http://sappir.net/?p=699#comment-117 In reply to Michael Sappir.

Michael,

Many years ago I wrote a chant that has 2 words. Shema Koli (Hear My Voice). The three parts are about:
1. My responsibility to hear my own voice.
2. My relationship with those I know. . .I want each person to hear my voice and I want to hear their voice. The key is the relationship.
3. My desire to have my voice heard as part of bigger picture. Sometimes it is about my spiritual connections, but more often it includes my desire to be part of the larger world through my writing, my activism, and simply my essence.

I am not certain if this makes sense; I hope it does.

In any case, I love how you reflect your thoughts within your writing, but also how you listen to your voice.

Shemati,
Chava Gal-Or

PS-Eudice Ben-Or recommended your blog to me over this past summer. Thank you for writing and sharing your thoughts as you do.

]]> By: Michael Sappir https://www.didyoulearnanything.net/blog/2010/12/16/not-one-to-comment/#comment-116 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:46:53 +0000 http://sappir.net/?p=699#comment-116 In reply to Shoshana London Sappir.

I fully agree. But as I’ve said before and mentioned at the end of section I, right now I think that if I were to move back, the struggle for civil rights and that to end the conflict would consume me. What I mean by this is that these struggles would eclipse my other interests; at the same time I would be confronted with the masses of people who violently reject the basic ideals of human dignity for all and a just and equal country. Arguments online are bad enough, right now the idea of having to argue politics in Israel on a daily basis seems like something really bad for me, and I think couldn’t avoid it if I moved back.

Maybe I’ll change and reach the point where I feel I can deal with that. Right now I don’t think I can.

I know it’s a little selfish, but I’m no use for improving anything if I’m a collapsing ball of ideology and rage. I know there’s no comparing, but for now my way of joining the struggle is sharing links and discussing things online, and occasionally writing.

]]> By: Shoshana London Sappir https://www.didyoulearnanything.net/blog/2010/12/16/not-one-to-comment/#comment-115 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:24:07 +0000 http://sappir.net/?p=699#comment-115 Michael,I appreciate your candor as always. You make a very good point in section IV that decisions made in the heat of emotion are bad ones, and it has even been demonstrated to be true in studies of just this question. But the big flaw in your argument about whether or not you could come back to Israel is expressed in this phrase: “to really enjoy it to the fullest…” Israel is not there for the diversion of its people. It is not an amusement park. Building a better society is hard work, a collective job that needs the combined and sustained efforts of many people. If you care about Israel’s future, you shouldn’t be waiting for it to get better but joining the struggle to make it that way.

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