A Very Narrow Bridge
Masks, Ceasefire, Trip, Jew Hatred, Flights, Metro: The Weekly Conquest Week of 10.19.25 – 10.25.25
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Week of October 19, 2025
For my creative arts core requirement in college, I’m taking a class called “Movement for the Stage.” This week, we experimented with masks. Before we covered our faces, the professor gave an ominous warning that it is natural for people to feel more violent when covering their faces, and she would yell “stop” if anyone lost control. She may be on to something… maybe even a solution for Hamas’ violence in Gaza.
Sunday 10.19
After Hamas killed two Israeli soldiers last week, the ceasefire was temporarily broken. Israel announced its resumption of the deal. [1]
Monday 10.20
Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, Trump’s architects of the ceasefire deal, landed in Israel to protect its progress and work towards the next stage. [2]
Tuesday 10.21
The leading democratic candidate for Senate in Maine had a nazi tattoo, and the republican nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel said he was on a “Nazi streak.” While the tattoo was since covered and the nomination rescinded, such instances of Jew hatred are frightfully on the rise. [3]
Wednesday 10.22
Over 800 rabbis signed a letter calling democratic candidate for New York City Mayor, Zohran Mamdani, a threat against the “safety and dignity of Jews in every city.” Still, polling shows that 43% of Jewish New York City voters support him. [4][5]
Thursday 10.23
Trump’s appointment for ambassador to Kuwait has so many controversies in his past, it is difficult to summarize them in this blurb. I think Senator Jacky Rosen put it best when she told him:
You liked a Facebook comment comparing Jews to monkeys. You characterize leaders you don’t like as ‘becoming Jewish.’ As mayor, you failed to comment after one of your political appointees suggested the Holocaust was ‘advance punishment’ for the war in Gaza, and you denied the Hamas used sexual violence as a weapon of war on Oct. 7… You can disagree with the Israeli government, but peddling antisemitism in such a public manner, as an elected official, as a community leader, is beyond the pale. [6]
Friday 10.24
American Airlines became the last of the major U.S. carriers to resume flights to Israel. [7]
Saturday 10.25
The war might be over, but Hamas’ metro system is still better than most, because 60% of the tunnels remain intact. [8]