Awake in the night

And thinking of Gaza

Destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, Francesco Havez, 1867, Accademia, Venice

I have bronchitis and am not sleeping. So last night I was despairing instead and these days social media is available to despair on.

Somewhere in the small hours I found myself in discussion with someone - one of many - who was demanding that we go back to the “root causes”…