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“Can you let me out of here?” The little blue light kept blinking and he took a break from badgering the rectangular fixture. Looking to the middle of the room, he kept talking. “I wish I was hungry so that I could tell you what I wanted to eat. Imagine the endless ideas that would come up in my head. But if I were hungry then I’d have to stop talking to eat it once you gave me whatever I wanted, so I’m also glad I’m not hungry. I actually figured this problem out already… I thought I was a tragic figure condemned to falling asleep because sometimes I’m mute in my dreams. I don’t think you know how to dream and I hardly think you know how to talk. All you have is a ‘yes’ this, strangely enough never a no.” After each morning’s customary requests, he rambled on for hours. The only color in the white cushioned room—besides his flamboyant wardrobe—was the steadily blinking blue light. The space was usually small with just enough room for some sort of comical priso...

Israel’s crashed moon landing could not be more fitting in conjunction with a limp culmination to a much-publicized Knesset election.   Likud and Netanyahu were by all accounts facing an existential challenge to their explicitly racist and genocidal governance. From one side Netanyahu is facing a hearing for corruption charges and from the other side the insurgent Blue and White party. While the name itself hints to the dismal state of Israeli politics, further inspection into the preferred candidate of all sane liberals confirms it. Blue and White leader Benny Gantz has publicly refused to enter into coalition with Arab parties and committed to “strengthen settlement” in the West Bank. A man of his word, Gantz is facing war crime accusations as he presided as chief of staff of the IDF during Operation Protective Edge, which killed thousands of occupied Palestinians as another piece in the process of ethnic cleansing. As Netanyahu is positioned to continue his pa...