{"id":1736,"date":"2025-10-06T09:41:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T08:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2026-07-21T08:27:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:27:38","slug":"remembering-october-7th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/2025\/10\/06\/remembering-october-7th\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering October 7th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday (Oct 5th 2025) I went with a friend to the October 7th Memorial gathering in Trafalgar Square.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event was about an hour and a half. Completely Jewish, so as a Christian one did feel a little out of place.   There was a lot of prayer and some songs in Hebrew. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Much of the time was taken up with people who were survivors of October 7th or family of people who had been killed or taken hostage. On top of that was the presence of folk from Manchester. Watch prayers for Manchester &#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1124759854\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1124759854<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several Jewish dignatories and even one lady who was a Holocaust survivor. All extremely moving and quite sombre.  How anyone intelligent person can pretend that October 7th never happened is beyond me. Watch a Nova Festival survivor ..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nova Festival Survivor\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1124760817?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What was lovely though was the absence of anger, just sorrow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At one point we sang the National Anthem. These are people who are profoundly integrated into British society. After all their God is our God. It is a good time to be praying that they discover their Messiah!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2025-10-05 15.10.03\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1124759080?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"478\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/10\/2025-10-05-13.58.38-478x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1738\" srcset=\"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/10\/2025-10-05-13.58.38-478x1024.jpg 478w, http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/10\/2025-10-05-13.58.38-140x300.jpg 140w, http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/10\/2025-10-05-13.58.38-768x1645.jpg 768w, http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/10\/2025-10-05-13.58.38-717x1536.jpg 717w, http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/10\/2025-10-05-13.58.38-956x2048.jpg 956w, http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/10\/2025-10-05-13.58.38-scaled.jpg 1196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (Oct 5th 2025) I went with a friend to the October 7th Memorial gathering in Trafalgar Square. The event was about an hour and a half. Completely Jewish, so as a Christian one did feel a little out of place. There was a lot of prayer and some songs in Hebrew. Much of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/2025\/10\/06\/remembering-october-7th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Remembering October 7th&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1761,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions\/1761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}