Nothing I can say on this day can seem important in the face of the tragedy that is revealed to be more and more earthshattering as the years pass. The incremental sense of tragedy is caused not only by the terrible effects on society, politics, economy, but by the awareness that worse events can and will take place.
And yet, there is something so idyllic about life in this land. Even Sayyed Kashua’s complaints of discrimination in today’s Ha’aretz are suggestive of Eden. Like living in Kubla Khan’s pleasure dome knowing that it’s only this place at this moment because “ancestral voices prophesy war.”
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