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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone arriving in Israel will be quarantined for two weeks. [/quote]

OP here. That’s the only reason it’s off. It was “on” (as far as they knew) as off this morning. Grandparents played it better (in retrospect) than I did by delaying telling the family they were cancelling. I don’t blame this. Drama sucks [/quote]

I'm having a hard time following your story
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Is the event cancelled now? [/quote]

OP here. Sorry, I’m not the best writer.
Sister is not speaking to me, so i didn’t receive an “official” notice of cancellation. Both sets of grandparents were busy cancelling behind the scenes, so, when the announcement came out this afternoon about Israel effectively closing off the borders to tourists, they jumped straight to communicating how much they were “regretting” the event was cancelled. I’m only hearing about these conversations through my mom. I’m sure they are, as an I, sad for sisters family and for nephew that the event is off. But everyone but me gets to pretend they were all completely on board with going until forced, by Israeli policy, to cancel. So, because I was honest earlier and sister was completely unreasonable about this from the beginning, I’m being painted as the bad guy. I do feel badly for my mom who is in the middle and honestly just didn’t want to upset her kid.[/quote]

Your sister sounds selfish but you sound exhausting.  What the heck are you prattling on about?[/quote]

PP's comment is ignorant and unhelpful. People who post that others are "exhausting" are people who are too lazy to read. OP made the situation clear enough.

OP, does your sister make a habit of being this self-centered? Has she pulled this silent treatment on you or others before this? I'm betting yes. She sounds like a person who's used to getting her way (or who complains that she "never" gets her way and this trip was going to be the exception and now she still can't have her way....). Consider whether this is just part of her usual pattern. That might make her mean-spirited behavior easier to ignore. She's being a jerk to you and, it seems, only you. I'd speak to HER face to face if she's local and tell her you love and value your nephew and would like to be there for his rescheduled bar mitzvah to support him. If she's snitty about it, stay sweet and say you're so sorry she is cutting you out of being there to support her son.

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