Mayim Bialik: It’s hard to stay focused with Israel on my mind (Amy Farrah-Fowler/Blossom)

Besides the fact that I am recovering from major hand surgery, I am finding it difficult to write these days. I am using a dictation program as well as utilizing Fancy Assistant Brandon’s typing skills, so it’s not that I have no way to communicate with the outside world.

The problem is with Israel. It’s on my mind pretty much all of the time. When the three teenagers were kidnapped a month ago, it was on my mind. When they were found murdered and left in an open field, it was on my mind. When Jewish extremists burned a Palestinian teenager alive in retribution, it was on my mind.

What is also on my mind is the plight of the Palestinian people; the innocent people caught in the crossfire of Hamas, a military and political entity which calls for the explicit destruction of the state of Israel as part of their official charter. What is also on my mind are the hundreds of thousands of Jews and Arabs in Israel being shelled with rockets from every border. What is also on my mind is my family and my friends and their children and their grandchildren being ushered into bomb shelters when sirens blare.

What is on my mind is the very real war in Gaza and Israel and also the public relations war that is raging in the Middle East. Israel is losing this war because of bureaucracy and fear and denial. I wish all of the Israel haters would learn more about Israel. And I wish all of the Arab haters would stop hating in the name of religion.

I wish no one cared what celebrities think about the situation in Israel. I wish people would stop posting things on social media about what a horrible person I am because I am a Jew. And about how all Israel supporters are Nazis and hate Palestinian children and want them dead. Because that’s just wrong and ridiculous.

I watched “Braveheart” a few nights ago for the first time. I instantly fell in love with it, even as so many people in my life express varying shades of shock and dismay that I would support a Mel Gibson movie, you know, “because he’s a raging anti-Semite.”

Even watching “Braveheart” brings me back to Israel. Is Mel Gibson really an anti-Semite? Are the people who hate me for being Jewish because I support the right of Israel to exist anti-Semitic? Is the freedom that William Wallace fought and died for 1000 years ago in Scotland the same freedom that the Palestinian people fight for? And is that freedom the same as the freedom for Israeli citizens to live without rockets falling on you and without your neighbors rallying actively for you to be pushed into the sea simply because you exist as a Jew?

I will try to turn my frown upside down for next week. I will try and tell you some of the fun and funny things that have gone on as I am recovering from surgery. My hairless cat is endlessly amusing. My sons are complicated and delightful and delicious. There is so much goodness and there is so much joy in this world. But this week, I am having trouble putting that into words.

I have been listening to David Broza’s “Yi’hiyeh Tov” a lot right now. I can’t help it. Here is the song and here is the translation:

I look out of the window and it makes me very sad Spring has left who knows when it will return The clown has become a king the prophet has become a clown and I have forgotten the way but I am still here

And all will be good Yes, all will be good though I sometimes break down But this night oh, this night I will stay with you

Children wear wings and fly off to the army And after two years they return without an answer People live under stress looking for a reason to breathe and between hatred and murder they talk about peace

Yes up there in the sky clouds are learning how to fly and I look up and see a hijacked airplane A government of generals divide the land to whats theirs and ours and when will we see the end?

Here comes the prince of Egypt oh how I rejoiced for him there are pyramids in our eyes and peace in his pipe And we said let’s complete it and we’ll live as brothers and he then said let’s advance going out from the shtachim

We will yet learn to live together between the groves of olive trees Children will live without fear without borders, without bomb-shelters On graves grass will grow for peace and love One hundred years of war but we have not lost hope

Every week, the Sabbath provides us an opportunity to hit our reset button. Let us hope for an end to the war in the Middle East for the Israeli Jews and the Israeli Arabs and the Palestinians and the larger Arab world that seeks peace and coexistence. Let us hope to start new next week. And may this Shabbat truly be a Shabbat Shalom: a Sabbath of peace.

If worse came to worse, Israel could turn the entire Middle East into a bowl of glass and MOST of the Arab nations KNOW THAT. That is why Saudi Arabia, Jordan and even the new nuts in Egypt are quietly hoping Israel can calm the Hamas idiots and take out the Iranian nuke sights into the bargain. They would like nothing better than to hate on Israel at the U.N. while simultaneously giving them High Fives in private.

She was very sly how she wrote it, asking hard hitting questions with a velvet glove that the low info types can understand.

That's the way I saw it too. It seems to me that Bialik wanted to deliver a strong pro-Israel message without appearing to be partisan.

Very smart, very funny and quite a bit nutty. But NOT a self-hating Jew. I really like her.

She is great on big bang theory, they were geniuses to add her.

She had a scene with Sheldon, where he was obsessing about something and not even listening to her as she asked him to “please pass the salt”. So she feigned total interest in what he was talking about it. She was absorbed, hung on his every word. And then when, finally, she had HIS complete attention she said “PLEASE PASS THE SALT!”

I’m sure I haven’t conveyed it well, and it was just a little bit of nothing, really.

But she made it work so well, I laughed so hard I was crying!

Her dissertation was an investigation of hypothalamic activity in patients with Prader–Willi syndrome, titled, Hypothalamic regulation in relation to maladaptive, obsessive-compulsive, affiliative, and satiety behaviors in Prader-Willi syndrome

No wonder she’s hot for Sheldon.

The Norwegians have already done this. She was ripping them off just like Leonard does regularly.....

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.