This Blogger has a friend, who is an actor. He played the lead in a Los Angeles production of STEAMBATH. STEAMBATH is one of those plays not produced nearly enough on America’s stages( MARAT/SADE, NO EXIT,SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR and THE BALCONY being others). STEAMBATH is set in an afterlife, in which that afterlife is set in a steam bath;  God is there, as the  Puerto Rican attendant. It is an absurdist play; but, since all of us are living through these absurdist times, it resonates. As the Israeli/HAMAS devolves into absolute absurdity, perhaps God indeed is a Puerto Rican steam bath attendant. The people of Gaza are starving; they need food. Israel, at war with HAMAS, the terrorist overlords of Gaza,  has restricted food supplies; in an effort, this Blogger assumes, to get the emaciated people of Gaza to turn against HAMAS. To alleviate the starvation, a consortium of nations: America, Jordan and Egypt have begun to parachute pallets of food supplies into beleaguere

  As this Blog is being written, the Israel/HAMAS War has been placed on PAUSE; so selected Israel hostages, taken in the HAMAS October 7 th    Murder Raid can be exchanged for Palestinian prisoners, held in Israeli jails. Since the October 7 th  HAMAS Murder Raid, the world has learned a few things about HAMAS. First, it is the most ruthless terrorist organization, since the Khmer Rouge and that includes the Taliban and ISIS. Secondly, it is the cleverest, canniest terrorist organization since the heyday of the Irish Republican Army. In geopolitical, geostrategic terms and in public opinion, HAMAS may have already won the war. It has galvanized worldwide opinion against Israel; even though HAMAS slaughtered Israeli elders,  raped Israeli women, butchered Israeli men and mothers and  beheaded Israeli babies in its Murder Raid. In response, all across the globe, masses of protestors want Israel to accept violation, forcing the world to lament the deaths of  Gazan civilians but not the d

  In college, this Blogger was invited to a seminar overseen by Hans J. Morgenthau. At the end of the seminar, Mr. Morgenthau engaged this Blogger in a private conversation; he informed this Blogger that he had a unique set of viewpoints; and asked: where did this Blogger get them? This Blogger answered: “  My Father raised me on Classical American Westerns .” Then Mr. Morgenthau informed this Blogger that he was: either well equipped or ill equipped for this modern world. This Blogger recalled that conversation as he watched British television explore, in granular detail, the Israeli Vendetta in Gaza. Israelis are so incensed by the massacre inflicted on their citizens, by the Gaza based, Palestinian terrorist organization, HAMAS, that    they are bantering about using their supposedly nonexistent nuclear bomb on Gaza. “Israel’s Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu was suspended indefinitely after he said in an interview that dropping a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip was “one of the poss