Of ocurse I am going to take the opportunity to talk about the Hamas attack on Israel. First, I'd like to talk about my background, or baggage, regarding the country. I have lived in Israel, some years ago. This was not for religious reasons; I spent several months there working on a movie. During pre-production, weeks of location scouting and shooting the movie, I was all over the country, and spent a fair amount of time in the West Bank, where we also shot. This included a lot of places that normal tourists would not see, including predominantly Arab areas such as East Jerusalem, the Arab quarter of the old city, Ramla and the southern part of Jaffa, which is predominantly Arab. It also included heavily Orthodox areas like Mea Shearim. I dealt with Israeli Arabs, Palestinians and Bedouins. Here are a few things I believe I learned there: First of all, the Palestinians I knew were perfectly normal people with the same interest in living a safe, secure
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It should be hitting around now, time of writing, at morning peak hour. If people weren’t locked into corporate dutifulness the sensible thing would be to stay home, but they won’t. They’ll grit their teeth and push through the wind and rain. Some people will bed down in the office.
We’ll just hope for the best - because there is nothing else you can do. It will take decades to decommission and clean up that piece of radioactive corporate appeasement and in that time there will be any number of unusually strong taiphoons and many major quakes.