Warrior Pose | Mary Turfah

BREATHE IN. Notice your chest rise. Notice a photo showing several people inside a poorly lit space with arms reaching for the sky. Foam mats separate their bare feet from uneven concrete. They gather in what appears to be the fourth level of a parking garage in, according to the caption, central Israel. Exhale. Note that these people are underground, where they “practice yoga as the Iranian regime continues to fire ballistic missiles at Israel.” The ballistic missiles from the Islamic Republic did for some time “continue,” but there were several intervening months between the Twelve-Day War—the U.S.-Israeli assault on Iran last year—and March 18 of this year, when these scenes were captured. What happened? According to StandWithUs, the U.S.-based nonprofit behind the photo caption, the answer is Arab (and Arab-adjacent, we’re all approximately the same) violence, definitionally illogical and aggressive. For us, what happened is that the United States and Israel resumed their war of ag

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