Am Yisrael Chai!

Credit to i24 News for the screen shot.

Noa Argamani recounts : “There was a knock on the door. A voice said, ‘It’s the IDF. We’ve come to take you home.’”

Chief Inspector Arnon Zamora, an officer of the elite Yamam counter-terrorism unit, was mortally wounded in the hostage rescue operation in the central Gaza Strip. A hero of Israel and the Jewish people. May his memory be for a blessing.

There are still 120 hostages. BRING THEM HOME NOW!!!

4 days later… A clarification. Apparently “good condition” is a very relative term. In this case it seems to indicate that the hostages had all their limbs, no obvious external marks from torture, and Noa was not pregnant. That’s a pretty low bar. 😦

“The abductees were regularly beaten by their “innocent” captors.
“It was a harsh, harsh experience, with a lot of abuse, almost every day. Every hour, both physical, mental and other types, and that is something that is beyond comprehension”.
“They had no protein, so their muscles are extremely wasted, there is damage to some other systems because of that”.
“There have been periods where they got almost no food whatsoever”
“As time passes, hope of being released kind of decreases and you start wondering if this would ever end… losing that faith is where you get to the breaking point”.

Hostages held by “innocent” civilians. You can’t justify this. That doesn’t mean there aren’t real Gazan grievances. But this has NO justification.

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There's not much to say about me. I discovered SecondLife by accident, wandered in, and decided I wanted to stay. This blog was a chronicle of my adventures and misadventures in SL. It also includes stray thoughts that occur to me as a result of my time in SL. Both I and my avatar are female. We both love water and the beach and gardening and parties and hanging out with friends. Updating this after quite some time. I haven't appeared in SL in many many months (probably over a year by now) but SL has remained in my thoughts. I do miss my SL, but at least I still have contact with some of my friends from there. In the meantime.... this blog has evolved to be about my RL adventures. :) Nowhere near as risque as my SL but I do keep busy. I still like all the things listed above. I didn't have any cats in SL (only ducks and a panda) so my cats feel that they should play starring roles in my posts. :) I didn't do much eating IN SL although certainly food and drink accompanied me in RL while I roamed inworld. Cooking and baking have become more fun and interesting once I redid my kitchen. That renovation took longer and cost more than if I'd done it virtually, but I'm thrilled to have a tangible new kitchen! I hope you like food and drink as well! February 2024 Update: It’s been a very long time since I was in SL. I dropped in back in 2020 when covid took over most everything. In 2022 we ripped out the second floor of our house, so that was MORE renovation. At this rate we’ll have rebuilt our entire house from the inside out! :) I retired from corporate life in 2023. It occurs to me, long after the appropriate time, that I could have started a new page, or blog, since I’m writing about RL, not SL. :). But SL changed me for the better and it’s definitely part of who I am. So I continue posting! Thanks for reading!

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