On Wednesday evening, when Israel’s 78th Independence Day came to a close, the relief felt like a metabolic change. Anxiety from the end of the 40-Day War with Iran through Holocaust Memorial Day came with a lull at the end of the latter, and renewed anxiety anticipating Memorial Day, anticipating it would subside after Independence Day. It did. Realizing this, unable to temper it.

Sorrow. “Never again” resonating. Israel an answer. Yet pain, loss, conflict – the price. Victims. Inevitable. National struggles. This national struggle. Distinction. Identity. Identifying. Context. New players at center stage. Tiptoeing in the margins. Observing. Not understanding. Reframing. Reorganizing. Stepping back. Disenfranchised.

With the relief, I........

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