It's the High Holy Days. It's supposed to be a time for joy and celebration. I feel none of that.

[Beastly Boy]

2. It was the year that normalized antisemitism worldwide.

This is what disturbs me the most. I see so many comments, and not just on DU, that are overtly antisemitic, and the authors of these comments don't see them as such, most of them being sincere in their conviction that they are not being antisemitic.

This disturbs me the most.

I was going to post a long commentary on the abomination Hamas inflicted on both Israelis and Gazans, and the ensuing shameful universal apologia that followed, but I just can't get myself to dwell on this monumental atrocity for an extended period of time. Not today.