Rain tonight?

Rain clouds over the
Old City

The sky was cloudy and gray today. Rain clouds from the west (Mediterranean Sea) have been blowing across the country all day, bringing in a lot of humidity. The temperature has also dropped. Forecast was for rain but we got nothing. People are saying it will tonight. Well let's hope so.  The drought is killing us here.

Notwithstanding the subluxed shoulder that's healing, there was a lot of heavy lifting of books, cabinets, shelves, tables and files the whole day.  We're renovating the library office and lots of accumulated stuff of the past 20 years needed to be cleared off. The dark and crammed office is now bright and clean ... well almost. There's still a lot of work to do and I'm practically doing it myself. Magdulin our cleaner helps to clean up while I organise everything else.

News has leaked of a group of soldiers in Hebron beating a Palestinian. This is very common but almost never reported or filmed. This time it was filmed. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4858196,00.html  Soldiers have also been filmed setting fire to arab storage in the northern city of Nablus. There seems to be a lot of military violence against arabs ... probably as a revenge for the stabbings of last week. http://www.jerusalemonline.com/news/politics-and-military/military/idf-soldiers-set-storage-unit-on-fire-in-nablus-23803

Office renovation

Meantime some justice is being seen to be served: 5 jewish youths were arrested for assaulting and harassing an arab boy. However as we all know ... nothing will come out of it. They will be released because "there is not enough evidence". http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4858234,00.html

And once again another chutzpah event: the Israeli Culture Minister walked out of a films award ceremony because an arab poem was recited. Now if an arab walked out when a jewish poem were recited, it would be branded anti-semitism. http://www.jerusalemonline.com/news/politics-and-military/politics/culture-minister-leaves-film-awards-venue-over-palestinian-poem-23807

But I'll end off today's blog with something from the Pope. He called fear-mongering and gossip in journalism as a type of terrorism. The spread of exaggerations and lies causes fear and suspicion, dividing communities and creating hatred. That is terrorism at its roots.  It's terrorism that the common folk in the streets engage.  http://www.reuters.com/article/us-pope-media-idUSKCN11S26D?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_content=57e45c9604d30161488db9c9&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook