You may be wondering why little Jewish lefty girl has not discussed what's going on in the Middle East.

I can't talk about it with...well, pretty much anyone I know without someone getting upset.  So I just don't talk about it.

I'm entirely anti-war, most people in my life know that.  I don't think guns and bombs can be considered part of natural selection.  I think war is always wrong.  Once violence has begun, it is sometimes unavoidable, but that doesn't make it right.  Or good for the world.  And don't get me started on imperialism.

But little Jewish lefty girl can't make statements about Israel, or anything Israel is involved in, without upsetting someone close to her, or many someones, so she'll just refrain.

And remember that in Marge Piercy's He, She and It, which of course is a dystopic feminist sci-fi novel written by a Jewish lefty woman but one that seems like it could happen, the Middle East is a black square on the map, uninhabitable, and near-forgotten.