We had the first day in two weeks with no rocket fire. I only wish I’d have known that we’d have a quiet night in advance, because then I could have actually slept properly for a change. As it was I kept waking up and imagining sirens. The south and north of Israel didn’t have such a peaceful day, with the south being pummelled by rockets throughout the day, and the Iranian backed Hizballah working with Hamas to do everything possible to drag us into another war in Lebanon.

Two hostages were thankfully freed and are back safely in Israel. I’m both happy about that and well aware that there are 200 more hostages in Hamas’s hands, and they won’t be freed so easily. Our disgraceful PM had the temerity to take credit over something that clearly had nothing to with — if anyone can take credit here it’s likely President Biden. It boggles my mind that Bibi and his pack of grossly incompetent cronies are still “in charge” and haven’t resigned.

What also boggles the mind is calls for a ceasefire at this stage from various clueless celebrities. I am a leftist, and I wouldn’t dream of a ceasefire with Hamas. They have hundreds of hostages, they performed multiple war crimes, and they have shown themselves to be 100% untrustworthy. This isn’t “just another round of fighting in the Middle East”. This is about restoring basic, basic, basic safety to the citizens of Israel (and yes, that includes Christians and Muslims, which were also deliberate victims of this war). Iran is doing everything it can to push an all out war in the area, just so the Saudi’s don’t get a foothold here. Hamas planned this attack well in advance, knew exactly what the repercussions would be, and is now trying to play the poor innocent victim card, and say “but what about the Palestinian people”? What about them, indeed? Since when did Hamas ever care about the people of Gaza except as potential recruits, cannon fodder and human shields? Go check their track record as rulers of the Gaza strip and then talk about how much they care for the Palestinian people. There are some choice samples of their treatment of Palestinian journalists if you can stomach the footage.

Two weeks after 9/11 nobody would have dreamt of telling the American people to sign a ceasefire with Al-Qaeda and Bin Laden. It just boggles my mind that celebrities feel justified in making that call now.