my skin tone is very white, but i tan very deeply in the summer, if i'm out in the sun for any length of time. the result is that i may be easily mistaken as having olive or even brown skin, but it's not true. my ease of tanning is probably genetic and probably inherited from the indigenous ancestors on my father's side, but that's a guess.

in recent years, i have been outside a lot on the bicycle trying to maximize my vitamin d. it has made me look browner than normal, and i have found myself needing until february or march until i return to a white complexion.

this year, i've been inside since june, and i have whitened up very quickly. i currently have no tan line at all, which hasn't been the case in several years.

They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-jewish sentiment or "anti-colonial" sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

the truth is that the palestinian people, who are overwhelmingly ethnically hebrew, are simply failing to adapt.

they need to change.

the reality is that all credible evidence indicates that hamas is actually using these hospitals as human shields, which is actually a war crime. that's right, it's a war crime for a militant to hide in a hospital.

the stated purpose of the operation is to annihilate hamas, and that is justified. if hamas is hiding in a hospital, and that is a war crime, is it then justified to target the hospital?

you have to escape from logic a little bit here. the idf should clearly be trying to tone it down as much as it can. ultimately, however, yes; if hamas is hiding in the hospital, you blow up the hospital.

this is consequently not the time to call for a ceasefire, and the reality of the situation needs to be clarified, which is something the media is failing at: you can't hide in a hospital, that's against the rules of war, and that's exactly what hamas is doing.