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\"Ride<\/a><\/h2>\n

On Hope and Despair<\/h2>\n

It was a peculiar week indeed. Imprisoned on a teeter totter, I found myself flying up and diving down, distraught and ecstatic, down and up, up and down, somewhere between hope and despair.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not an easy task translating my posts into English. There are many words which just don\u2019t have an English equivalent and it\u2019s so much more than the lack of a suitable word. Often there is a lack of parallel cultural experience. Take the common expression \u201chit and run\u201d for example: a driver fleeing the scene of an accident without tending to the injured or reporting to the police. The picture our mind congers up is of a scared individual fleeing the site of an accident: an accident called as such because it happened by accident. Here in Israel we have an equivalent expression \u201cpga v\u2019brach\u201d which has the exact literal translation. Since the late 1980\u2019s, however, we have coined another expression \u201cpigua drissa\u201d. This is used to identify terror attacks caused by lone attackers and their vehicles. Sadly these \u201chit and ram-over\u201d attacks have become all too familiar in our hot political climate.<\/p>\n

I awoke to yet another report of a \u201chit and ram-over\u201d terror attack. For a change it wasn\u2019t Israel in the news or even the Middle East for that matter. I cannot say that it hurt any less. Terror is terror is terror.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pain.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u200eJe suis Nice\u200e.<\/h3>\n

Eighty four stories were cut short\u00a0in their tracks. We shall never know the ending to their love stories, children and grandchildren will remain forever nameless.<\/p>\n

As I charted and fumbled my blog post\u2019s way, I heard new reports of an attacker opening fire elsewhere, this time at a shopping center in Germany.<\/p>\n

The world has gone mad.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Rumor has it that the Turkish coup attempt was staged by President Erdo\u011fan, in an attempt to further his own interests. Donald Trump rocking to the tune of \u201cWe Are the Champions\u201d made his flamboyant entrance into the Republican National Convention. To the utter dismay of many he was quickly crowned the presidential nominee. The key notes of the \u201cTrumpant\u201d nominee were a haunting melody of darkness, hate, fear and cries of war.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Disturbed – The Sound Of Silence [Official Music Video]<\/a><\/h4>\n

Download or stream the song now: https:\/\/wbr.ec\/immortalized Directed by Matt Mahurin http:\/\/www.mattmahurin.com New Album "Immortalized" Out Now!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n