I am sure you're getting news of what's happening here in Israel. It could have been a lot easier if we'd reacted earlier, if we hadn't kept putting off fighting. But that's what happens… you get pushed and pushed harder and humiliated till you have no choice but to fight. And now Israel has no choice but to fight, and half the population is frightened as the missiles fly overhead, and they have to run to the shelters every hour, and sometimes they don't get away in time, and a lot of people are injured, and a few are killed. Some people have to leave their homes. They can't bear the situation, or they don't have a bomb shelter, and they go south to friends or family till it'll be over with. Friends move in, and willingly squeeze a little; friends sleep on the floor; sometimes four or five in a bed where once one or two slept… but that's the good part. It is good to be close to friends. It is bad to be scared. It is bad to be eaten up by worry for your friends and your brothers and you children as they go off to war. Someone doesn't answer the telephone, and you go crazy with fear. It is very bad. It is bad to watch a building that looked like a rock collapse and fall into rubble. To see all the treasures you have collected over the years turn into rubble. To see all the treasures someone else has collected turn into garbage. It is hard and miserable to witness the pain of others, the sense of loss of others, to watch them as they lose their cool. It is hard to watch someone who's always dressed to perfection running down the street in his pajamas and confused, and looking for parts of his family. Or to see a kid looking for his dog when you've already seen the bloody dead dog in a corner where it's waiting to be buried. You know, there are movies; they say they are just like the real thing… I've read books that they say are just like the real thing… unfortunately, I've seen a few wars too… and only they are the real thing.
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