Don't Dance on Graves

Even if they deserve it

Don’t Do This

Just something quick I wanted to reflect on with all of you.

My Rabbi’s Yom Kippur sermon was about the importance of not having hate in your heart under any circumstances. Even if someone is coming to hurt you and your family, and you need to shoot them to protect your loved ones, you still can not hate them.

I don’t know what sort of superhuman Jew he was talking about, but it certainly isn’t me. Maybe this is the Ubermensch Nietzsche wrote about?

This leads me to the glorious, magnificent, splendiferous killing of Yahya Sinwar this week (see, I’m really trying).

My first instinct was that Israel should string his body up in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv and let the families of those killed on Oct. 7 and the hostage families make a macabre pinata out of him (ok, maybe I’m not really trying). And I guess that at least some of you shared something approximating my sentiment.

But then I read this tweet from Amjad Taha on X and realized how misguided I was.

Don’t I feel like a jerk?

The point is that we got what we wanted. Israel dealt out well-deserved justice to one of the most evil people on Earth, and the world is a better, safer place today than it was just a few hours ago. That’s enough. The point is made.

We should all remember that…most of all me.

-Jay