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shadowkatSnow storm was a bit underwhelming in my neck of the woods. I don't think we got an inch - regardless of what the news states. It's pretty out now. Sun-streaked sky, with a hit of orange or pink across robin's egg blue. The rooftops just creasted with melting snow. As the branches are feathered against it.
I like the view outside my living room windows. It's calming. Watching the snow-storm today was equally calming.
Sleep Apnea and the CPAP Device
Community Surgical Supply called to arrange for my CPAP mask to be delivered and fitted this Saturday. I'm dreading it. I can't sleep with a tooth guard. And watches bother me. Also it will take up space on my nightstand. Plus, you apparently have to clean the thing. This sounds like high maintenance. And it requires being put on and off. And I get up in the night to pee. Frequently. The rep told me that once you get past the learning curve, it works like a charm. There's no copayment. If I don't think its working or can't use it - I can return it in a month. Just call and they'll pick it up.
There's apparently two options:
1. They deliver it to my home, show me how to put it on and take it off, quickly answer questions.
or
2. I travel to a class, that is one hour, and they show me everything, and I take it home.
The class is in South Brooklyn and difficult to get to. It's on Coney Island Avenue and Ave U and V. That's not in walking distance or really accessible by subway. I passed on the class.
We'll see how or if this works.
At least it doesn't cost me anything. There's no co-pay.
Ugee Digital Art Device
So, I found out from Gabe awhile back that the digital art device I got for my birthday works with specific software - it's the hardware for the software. The software it works best with appears to be Adobe Photoshop. So I bought a $25 a month subscription to Adobe Photoshop. (I miss the days in which we just bought software, one time fee, that was it. I swear - software engineers and their organizations make too much money, and scam us into buying crappy software that has to be constantly upgraded for their job security. I say this knowing full well that I have not one but several software engineers in my extended family - damn them. At least one of them kindly refurbishes old computers for the needy and disadvantaged. My family is either artists or engineers, guess which side I ended up on? Hint - it wasn't the engineers.)
Anyhow, I'm going to figure out my new toy over the four day weekend, along with doing taxes, hopefully taking long walks, and getting chores and errands done. Plus maybe going to church services. I'm considering giving up chocolate for lent. Which would help greatly with the diabetes.
Diet & Exercise
Speaking of diet. I had eggs and sausage for breakfast. Turkey Chili and liverwurst on guiona crackers for lunch, with some cheese. A Hagen Daz Chocolate Ice Cream Bar for dessert. And...some chocolate. Also two gluten-free thin chocolate chip cookies with cinnamon black tea.
Not too bad. I can do better. Don't know what I'll have for dinner. Have to make it and tomorrow's lunch.
Did exercises - several arm lifts with ten pound weights, they may be five pound weights, not certain. Squats. Plank. Wall pushups. Counter lifts. Shoulder rolls. Stretches. About thirty to forty minutes worth. I get bored quickly.
I'm looking for boxing and rock climbing courses in the area - considering trying that. Or something fun? Not finding anything. But who knows?
Writing
I'm thinking of giving up on my romance novel and starting something else.
Maybe a book about my grandmother, who wanted to become a nun and became a mother of eleven kids instead?
I keep second-guessing myself. There's this pseudo-psychology out there, which Streisand keeps talking about in her book - but I've heard it a lot before. Actually one my therapists (the reflexologist/actress/shaman) was really into it. Actors tend to be. All the actor bios go off on this. Actually it's the focus of Julie Cameron's The Artist's Way, and a lot of the lectures at my church. The theory is - "if you fully commit to your dream or what you wish to do - then everything will open up for you, and all of these opportunities will come your way." I feel like I haven't?
That maybe if I just did my writing full time and did nothing but send off query letters, and do art, and writing groups - this would happen?
OTOH - I'd starve, be homeless, have no healthcare, and...well...be unable to write. Also, I might just not be good enough?
At any rate - it's shutting me down creatively. This second-guessing and introspection. Maybe I should just stop thinking or worrying about it and write?
Work
I'm kind of glad I didn't go to work today. I didn't want to deal with people. I think I'm burned out? I feel like it doesn't matter what I do - my workplace won't care. I'm basically irrelevant. Or been rendered irrelevant, and because I'm in a union - they want to push me out. And there's nothing I can do. And I don't dare leave the union - or I will be pushed out.
It's depressing. My workplace is depressing me. So too is February.
International Politics
* It's not Taylor Swift's fault that the media is obsessed with her. I think the media just wants to focus on something pretty and positive for a change?
* The Seemingly Endless Israel/Palestine War. (If there was an area of the globe begging for a massive earthquake or natural disaster to get these nitwits heads in the right place - it was this one.) This thing has been going on forever. It was the main topic in the book "The People of Forever Are Not Afraid" - which I read somewhere between 2005-2012. And the book took place in the early 00s.
Per this Timeline this goes back to the 1800s.
APRIL 1948: Deir Yassin massacre: Zionist paramilitary groups kill hundreds of Palestinian Arabs in Deir Yassin, a village near Jerusalem.
MAY 1948: Great Britain terminates the Mandate over Palestine and Israel declares independence on 15 May. First large-scale displacement of Palestine refugees; 15 May becomes an official day to mark the Palestinian Nakba (“catastrophe”).
The first Arab-Israeli War broke out when five Arab nations – Egypt, Transjordan (Jordan), Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon – invaded firstly the areas in southern and eastern Palestine not apportioned to the Jewish State by the UN partition of Palestine, and later, East Jerusalem.
Count Folke Bernadotte appointed UN Mediator in Palestine by the UN General Assembly. He is assassinated four months later by a Zionist militant group.
Security Council establishes a group of military observers to supervise truce, which later became UNTSO.
NOVEMBER 1948: UN establishes UNRPR special fund to provide relief to over 500,000 Palestine refugees.
DECEMBER 1948: UN General Assembly passes resolution 194 calling for refugees to be allowed to return, Jerusalem to be under international regime, UN Conciliation Commission for Palestine (UNCCP) replaces UN mediator.
FEBRUARY-JULY 1949: Israel signs armistice agreements with Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
APRIL 1949: UN Conciliation Commission convenes Lausanne Conference to reconcile the parties.
MAY 1949: UNGA adopts Resolution 273 (III) admitting Israel as UN member.
DECEMBER 1949: UN establishes UNRWA to replace UNRPR (GA Resolution 302 (IV)).
1950: Israel moves its capital from Tel Aviv to the western part of Jerusalem, in defiance of UN resolutions, and the West Bank is brought formally under Jordanian control.
1964: Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is founded in Cairo.
1967: Six-day war: Israel occupies West Bank, including East Jerusalem, Gaza, Golan Heights, and Sinai Peninsula.
In November, the UN Security Council unanimously adopts Resolution 242 (Land for peace).
1968: Establishment of UN Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories.
1973: Following the Middle East war of October, the UN Security Council passes resolution 338 calling for ceasefire, implementation of res. 242, negotiations between parties.
1974: The UN General Assembly and the Arab League recognize the PLO as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.
General Assembly reaffirms inalienable rights of Palestinian people to self-determination, independence and sovereignty, and refugee return (resolution 3236).
1975: In 1975 the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) is founded by Resolution 3376 of the UNGA.
1976: The CEIRPP submits its programme to the Security Council and General Assembly to enable Palestinians to exercise their inalienable rights.
1977: Pursuant to UNGA Resolution 32/40 B, International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People is celebrated annually on 29 November.
1978: Following two weeks of secret negotiations at Camp David (USA), the Egyptian President and the Israeli Prime Minister agree on a Framework for Peace in the Middle East.
1979: The UNGA re-designates the Special Unit on Palestinian Rights as the Division for Palestinian Rights (Resolution 34/65 D).
1980: Israeli Knesset enacts the so-called ‘Basic Law’ on Jerusalem, proclaiming that “Jerusalem, whole and united” is the capital of Israel; the Security Council and GA resolution 35/169 E censure this law.
1981: UNESCO adds the Old City of Jerusalem to the UNESCO World Heritage Site list.
UN Security Council adopts resolution 497, calling on Israel to rescind action to annex the Golan Heights.
1982: Israel invades Lebanon with the intention of eliminating the PLO. After a ceasefire, PLO forces withdraw to neighboring countries. Despite guarantees of safety for Palestine refugees left behind, there are massacres at Sabra and Shatila camps.
1987: First “Intifada” begins in the Jabaliya Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip.
1988: In July, Jordan renounces claims to the West Bank and recognizes PLO as “the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.”
In November, in Algiers, the Palestinian National Council adopts declaration of independence of the State of Palestine.
In December, PLO Chair Yasser Arafat addresses UN in Geneva; says Palestine National Council accepts UNSC Resolutions 242 and 338.
1991: Middle East peace conference in Madrid brings together all the parties to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
1993: Israel and the PLO sign the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements, also known the Oslo accords. Several “permanent status” issues are deferred for future negotiations.
1994: The Office of the UN Special Coordinator in the Occupied Territories (UNSCO) is established, and Mr. Terje Roed-Larsen of Norway is appointed as the first UN Special Coordinator.
1995: Israel and the PLO sign the Palestinian-Israeli Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (“Oslo II)”.
1996: Palestinian general elections are held.
1997: Israel and the PLO sign the Hebron Protocol.
1998: Israel and the PLO sign the Wye River Memorandum, which consists of steps to facilitate implementation of previous agreements.
2000: In July, the US President Clinton convenes a Middle East Peace Summit at Camp David which concludes without agreement.
Ariel Sharon’s al-Haram al-Sharif visit in September 2000 triggers the Second Palestinian Intifada.
2001: Outgoing US President Clinton proposes the Clinton Parameters for a permanent status agreement to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
Shortly afterwards, the Taba Summit is held between Israel and the Palestinian Authority but fails to resolve the “permanent status” issues.
2002: The UN Security Council passes resolution 1397 affirming vision of a two-State solution to the conflict. The Quartet, consisting of the UN, the EU, the US, and Russia is established with a mandate to help mediate Israeli-Palestinian conflict and support Palestinian economic development and institution-building.
During a summit in Beirut, the League of Arab States adopts the Arab Peace Initiative.
2003: Roadmap for Peace is published by the Quartet and is endorsed by the Security Council in resolution 1515.
2004: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) issues Advisory Opinion on the legality of construction of a wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
2006: In January, Hamas wins Palestinian Legislative Elections; forms Palestinian Authority government. The Quartet responds with Quartet Principles.
In July, Israel goes to war with Hezbollah in Lebanon.
2007: Israel imposes a blockade on the Gaza Strip after an armed takeover of Gaza by Hamas.
In November, the Annapolis Conference ends with parties issuing a joint statement committing to immediately implement their respective obligations under the Roadmap and working towards a peace treaty by the end of 2008.
2008: Israel broadens its sanctions and completely seals off the Gaza Strip.
Later in the year, Israel launches “Operation Cast Lead”, a massive 22-day military assault on the Gaza Strip.
2009: Security Council passes resolution 1860 calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. HRC creates the UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza conflict to investigate violations of international humanitarian and human rights law. Their findings are issued in the “Goldstone Report”.
2012: In November, Israel launches ‘Pillar of Defense’ an 8-day military operation against the Gaza Strip.
Later that month, the General Assembly adopts resolution 67/19 granting Palestine the status of non-member observer State in the UN.
2013: Direct negotiations between Israel and Palestine are held following an initiative by US Secretary of State John Kerry to restart the peace process.
2014: Israel launches a large scale military operation codenamed “Protective Edge” on the Gaza Strip.
2016: UN Security Council adopts resolution 2334, stating that Israel’s settlement activity constitutes a “flagrant violation” of international law and has “no legal validity”.
2017: US President Donald Trump announces that the United States would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
2018: United States moves its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
2020: US President Trump helps mediate Abraham Accords to normalize Israel’s relations with some Arab States and proposes a Peace Plan.
2022: General Assembly requests ICJ Advisory Opinion on the legal implications of the prolonged Israeli occupation.
2022: General Assembly adopts resolution A/RES/77/23 of 30 November 2022 requesting the Committee to Commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Nakba for the first time in the history of the UN.
2023: Israel launches “Operation Swords of Iron” against Gaza following Hamas attack.
This is why I don't care any longer. That part of the world is just begging for a natural disaster - although nature may have given up on it too.
Also, in case you think this is the ONLY place in the world that this is happening or happened? Think again.
List of Genocides
Depressed? So am I.
I like the view outside my living room windows. It's calming. Watching the snow-storm today was equally calming.
Sleep Apnea and the CPAP Device
Community Surgical Supply called to arrange for my CPAP mask to be delivered and fitted this Saturday. I'm dreading it. I can't sleep with a tooth guard. And watches bother me. Also it will take up space on my nightstand. Plus, you apparently have to clean the thing. This sounds like high maintenance. And it requires being put on and off. And I get up in the night to pee. Frequently. The rep told me that once you get past the learning curve, it works like a charm. There's no copayment. If I don't think its working or can't use it - I can return it in a month. Just call and they'll pick it up.
There's apparently two options:
1. They deliver it to my home, show me how to put it on and take it off, quickly answer questions.
or
2. I travel to a class, that is one hour, and they show me everything, and I take it home.
The class is in South Brooklyn and difficult to get to. It's on Coney Island Avenue and Ave U and V. That's not in walking distance or really accessible by subway. I passed on the class.
We'll see how or if this works.
At least it doesn't cost me anything. There's no co-pay.
Ugee Digital Art Device
So, I found out from Gabe awhile back that the digital art device I got for my birthday works with specific software - it's the hardware for the software. The software it works best with appears to be Adobe Photoshop. So I bought a $25 a month subscription to Adobe Photoshop. (I miss the days in which we just bought software, one time fee, that was it. I swear - software engineers and their organizations make too much money, and scam us into buying crappy software that has to be constantly upgraded for their job security. I say this knowing full well that I have not one but several software engineers in my extended family - damn them. At least one of them kindly refurbishes old computers for the needy and disadvantaged. My family is either artists or engineers, guess which side I ended up on? Hint - it wasn't the engineers.)
Anyhow, I'm going to figure out my new toy over the four day weekend, along with doing taxes, hopefully taking long walks, and getting chores and errands done. Plus maybe going to church services. I'm considering giving up chocolate for lent. Which would help greatly with the diabetes.
Diet & Exercise
Speaking of diet. I had eggs and sausage for breakfast. Turkey Chili and liverwurst on guiona crackers for lunch, with some cheese. A Hagen Daz Chocolate Ice Cream Bar for dessert. And...some chocolate. Also two gluten-free thin chocolate chip cookies with cinnamon black tea.
Not too bad. I can do better. Don't know what I'll have for dinner. Have to make it and tomorrow's lunch.
Did exercises - several arm lifts with ten pound weights, they may be five pound weights, not certain. Squats. Plank. Wall pushups. Counter lifts. Shoulder rolls. Stretches. About thirty to forty minutes worth. I get bored quickly.
I'm looking for boxing and rock climbing courses in the area - considering trying that. Or something fun? Not finding anything. But who knows?
Writing
I'm thinking of giving up on my romance novel and starting something else.
Maybe a book about my grandmother, who wanted to become a nun and became a mother of eleven kids instead?
I keep second-guessing myself. There's this pseudo-psychology out there, which Streisand keeps talking about in her book - but I've heard it a lot before. Actually one my therapists (the reflexologist/actress/shaman) was really into it. Actors tend to be. All the actor bios go off on this. Actually it's the focus of Julie Cameron's The Artist's Way, and a lot of the lectures at my church. The theory is - "if you fully commit to your dream or what you wish to do - then everything will open up for you, and all of these opportunities will come your way." I feel like I haven't?
That maybe if I just did my writing full time and did nothing but send off query letters, and do art, and writing groups - this would happen?
OTOH - I'd starve, be homeless, have no healthcare, and...well...be unable to write. Also, I might just not be good enough?
At any rate - it's shutting me down creatively. This second-guessing and introspection. Maybe I should just stop thinking or worrying about it and write?
Work
I'm kind of glad I didn't go to work today. I didn't want to deal with people. I think I'm burned out? I feel like it doesn't matter what I do - my workplace won't care. I'm basically irrelevant. Or been rendered irrelevant, and because I'm in a union - they want to push me out. And there's nothing I can do. And I don't dare leave the union - or I will be pushed out.
It's depressing. My workplace is depressing me. So too is February.
International Politics
* It's not Taylor Swift's fault that the media is obsessed with her. I think the media just wants to focus on something pretty and positive for a change?
* The Seemingly Endless Israel/Palestine War. (If there was an area of the globe begging for a massive earthquake or natural disaster to get these nitwits heads in the right place - it was this one.) This thing has been going on forever. It was the main topic in the book "The People of Forever Are Not Afraid" - which I read somewhere between 2005-2012. And the book took place in the early 00s.
Per this Timeline this goes back to the 1800s.
APRIL 1948: Deir Yassin massacre: Zionist paramilitary groups kill hundreds of Palestinian Arabs in Deir Yassin, a village near Jerusalem.
MAY 1948: Great Britain terminates the Mandate over Palestine and Israel declares independence on 15 May. First large-scale displacement of Palestine refugees; 15 May becomes an official day to mark the Palestinian Nakba (“catastrophe”).
The first Arab-Israeli War broke out when five Arab nations – Egypt, Transjordan (Jordan), Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon – invaded firstly the areas in southern and eastern Palestine not apportioned to the Jewish State by the UN partition of Palestine, and later, East Jerusalem.
Count Folke Bernadotte appointed UN Mediator in Palestine by the UN General Assembly. He is assassinated four months later by a Zionist militant group.
Security Council establishes a group of military observers to supervise truce, which later became UNTSO.
NOVEMBER 1948: UN establishes UNRPR special fund to provide relief to over 500,000 Palestine refugees.
DECEMBER 1948: UN General Assembly passes resolution 194 calling for refugees to be allowed to return, Jerusalem to be under international regime, UN Conciliation Commission for Palestine (UNCCP) replaces UN mediator.
FEBRUARY-JULY 1949: Israel signs armistice agreements with Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
APRIL 1949: UN Conciliation Commission convenes Lausanne Conference to reconcile the parties.
MAY 1949: UNGA adopts Resolution 273 (III) admitting Israel as UN member.
DECEMBER 1949: UN establishes UNRWA to replace UNRPR (GA Resolution 302 (IV)).
1950: Israel moves its capital from Tel Aviv to the western part of Jerusalem, in defiance of UN resolutions, and the West Bank is brought formally under Jordanian control.
1964: Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is founded in Cairo.
1967: Six-day war: Israel occupies West Bank, including East Jerusalem, Gaza, Golan Heights, and Sinai Peninsula.
In November, the UN Security Council unanimously adopts Resolution 242 (Land for peace).
1968: Establishment of UN Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories.
1973: Following the Middle East war of October, the UN Security Council passes resolution 338 calling for ceasefire, implementation of res. 242, negotiations between parties.
1974: The UN General Assembly and the Arab League recognize the PLO as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.
General Assembly reaffirms inalienable rights of Palestinian people to self-determination, independence and sovereignty, and refugee return (resolution 3236).
1975: In 1975 the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) is founded by Resolution 3376 of the UNGA.
1976: The CEIRPP submits its programme to the Security Council and General Assembly to enable Palestinians to exercise their inalienable rights.
1977: Pursuant to UNGA Resolution 32/40 B, International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People is celebrated annually on 29 November.
1978: Following two weeks of secret negotiations at Camp David (USA), the Egyptian President and the Israeli Prime Minister agree on a Framework for Peace in the Middle East.
1979: The UNGA re-designates the Special Unit on Palestinian Rights as the Division for Palestinian Rights (Resolution 34/65 D).
1980: Israeli Knesset enacts the so-called ‘Basic Law’ on Jerusalem, proclaiming that “Jerusalem, whole and united” is the capital of Israel; the Security Council and GA resolution 35/169 E censure this law.
1981: UNESCO adds the Old City of Jerusalem to the UNESCO World Heritage Site list.
UN Security Council adopts resolution 497, calling on Israel to rescind action to annex the Golan Heights.
1982: Israel invades Lebanon with the intention of eliminating the PLO. After a ceasefire, PLO forces withdraw to neighboring countries. Despite guarantees of safety for Palestine refugees left behind, there are massacres at Sabra and Shatila camps.
1987: First “Intifada” begins in the Jabaliya Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip.
1988: In July, Jordan renounces claims to the West Bank and recognizes PLO as “the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.”
In November, in Algiers, the Palestinian National Council adopts declaration of independence of the State of Palestine.
In December, PLO Chair Yasser Arafat addresses UN in Geneva; says Palestine National Council accepts UNSC Resolutions 242 and 338.
1991: Middle East peace conference in Madrid brings together all the parties to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
1993: Israel and the PLO sign the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements, also known the Oslo accords. Several “permanent status” issues are deferred for future negotiations.
1994: The Office of the UN Special Coordinator in the Occupied Territories (UNSCO) is established, and Mr. Terje Roed-Larsen of Norway is appointed as the first UN Special Coordinator.
1995: Israel and the PLO sign the Palestinian-Israeli Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (“Oslo II)”.
1996: Palestinian general elections are held.
1997: Israel and the PLO sign the Hebron Protocol.
1998: Israel and the PLO sign the Wye River Memorandum, which consists of steps to facilitate implementation of previous agreements.
2000: In July, the US President Clinton convenes a Middle East Peace Summit at Camp David which concludes without agreement.
Ariel Sharon’s al-Haram al-Sharif visit in September 2000 triggers the Second Palestinian Intifada.
2001: Outgoing US President Clinton proposes the Clinton Parameters for a permanent status agreement to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
Shortly afterwards, the Taba Summit is held between Israel and the Palestinian Authority but fails to resolve the “permanent status” issues.
2002: The UN Security Council passes resolution 1397 affirming vision of a two-State solution to the conflict. The Quartet, consisting of the UN, the EU, the US, and Russia is established with a mandate to help mediate Israeli-Palestinian conflict and support Palestinian economic development and institution-building.
During a summit in Beirut, the League of Arab States adopts the Arab Peace Initiative.
2003: Roadmap for Peace is published by the Quartet and is endorsed by the Security Council in resolution 1515.
2004: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) issues Advisory Opinion on the legality of construction of a wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
2006: In January, Hamas wins Palestinian Legislative Elections; forms Palestinian Authority government. The Quartet responds with Quartet Principles.
In July, Israel goes to war with Hezbollah in Lebanon.
2007: Israel imposes a blockade on the Gaza Strip after an armed takeover of Gaza by Hamas.
In November, the Annapolis Conference ends with parties issuing a joint statement committing to immediately implement their respective obligations under the Roadmap and working towards a peace treaty by the end of 2008.
2008: Israel broadens its sanctions and completely seals off the Gaza Strip.
Later in the year, Israel launches “Operation Cast Lead”, a massive 22-day military assault on the Gaza Strip.
2009: Security Council passes resolution 1860 calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. HRC creates the UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza conflict to investigate violations of international humanitarian and human rights law. Their findings are issued in the “Goldstone Report”.
2012: In November, Israel launches ‘Pillar of Defense’ an 8-day military operation against the Gaza Strip.
Later that month, the General Assembly adopts resolution 67/19 granting Palestine the status of non-member observer State in the UN.
2013: Direct negotiations between Israel and Palestine are held following an initiative by US Secretary of State John Kerry to restart the peace process.
2014: Israel launches a large scale military operation codenamed “Protective Edge” on the Gaza Strip.
2016: UN Security Council adopts resolution 2334, stating that Israel’s settlement activity constitutes a “flagrant violation” of international law and has “no legal validity”.
2017: US President Donald Trump announces that the United States would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
2018: United States moves its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
2020: US President Trump helps mediate Abraham Accords to normalize Israel’s relations with some Arab States and proposes a Peace Plan.
2022: General Assembly requests ICJ Advisory Opinion on the legal implications of the prolonged Israeli occupation.
2022: General Assembly adopts resolution A/RES/77/23 of 30 November 2022 requesting the Committee to Commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Nakba for the first time in the history of the UN.
2023: Israel launches “Operation Swords of Iron” against Gaza following Hamas attack.
This is why I don't care any longer. That part of the world is just begging for a natural disaster - although nature may have given up on it too.
Also, in case you think this is the ONLY place in the world that this is happening or happened? Think again.
List of Genocides
Depressed? So am I.