Everyone is talking about “Pictures of Victory”.
That’s mine — accompanying this piece.
Taken not very long ago in the town of Lod, the epicentre of our beloved country’s current catastrophe. The town of Lod, Israel’s back-yard; ten minutes drive and seventy years distant from Ben-Gurion international airport.
It is a photo of Jewish and Arab-Palestinian-Israelis, secular and orthodox, black and white, immigrants and veterans. An image of Israelis of all sexual orientations who get about and get by as best we can.
It really is a photograph of “good people on all sides”.
But not in the populist, corrupted, morally equivalent, and too-popular sense of “good” Jews and Arabs, of “good others”. Rather in the meaningful and just sense of people of all backgrounds who recognize each other’s humanity and choose to build a better shared future for all our children grounded on a shared commitment to an ever fairer and hence ever more successful shared future.