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The Bad Optics of Fighting for Your Life
The Bad Optics of Fighting for Your Life
Israel's Iron Dome aerial defense system intercepts rockets launched from the Gaza Strip on May 11, 2021. (Jack Guez / AFP)
When it comes to Israel, memes have replaced morality.
By Bari Weiss
05.13.21 — International
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I am writing to you from the waiting room of my fertility clinic. Getting pregnant when you are gay is not so romantic, so we try to do little things to make it nice. Last night I took a bath. We watched “Mare of Easttown.” Nellie opened a bottle of red. Then she grabbed my stomach and gave me a shot to trigger ovulation.

I planned to take the morning of…

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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