Two Tips and Then Gaza December 12, 2023December 12, 2023 OK, I give up. Use the damn dishwasher. Turns out, doing so can save water and energy. And try running your washing machine on “cold.” Likewise. Plus a few other appliance-related tips as well. From Fast Company: The best Apple product you aren’t using costs just 99 cents. “Apple’s Hide My Email service protects your inbox from spam and shields your personal data from hackers. Here’s how to start using it now.” Palestinians and Israelis have a common enemy: Hamas. “We’re condemned to suffer because of this stupid organization,” says one. This was posted back in January by the Center for Peace Communications: . . . The gulf in living standards between Hamas leaders and ordinary Gazans has grown increasingly conspicuous in recent years. In 2019, Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh moved to Qatar with his family, while the group’s deputy leader Khalil al-Hayya relocated to Turkey soon after. Since then he has visited Gaza only twice. Fat’hi Hamad, another senior Hamas official, now also resides in Istanbul, often flying to Beirut for meetings in luxury hotels. More than a dozen other high-ranking Hamas officials have followed suit. This exodus has not gone unnoticed. According to Azmi Keshawi, Gaza analyst at the International Crisis Group, “Ordinary Palestinians see that Hamas… [is] living in these comfortable zones where they are no longer suffering and seem far from the Palestinian cause and issues.” This was posted last week: What Ordinary Gazans Think About Hamas. Worth the watch. (Starts 1:20 in, after the ad.)