Take a Deep Breath

August 14, 2006 - 10:44 AM by

Columnist Yair Lapid is advising his countrymen to calm down already.

Despite it all, he says, there is no need to be hysterical. Times like these are simply part of life in the Middle East.

That is the way this region is. Once every few years something happens. Sometimes it’s horrible, sometimes just bad but this is our version of hurricanes. You never know when they are going to begin fermenting in the middle of the ocean or how they will attack.

You don’t ask who wins when a hurricane hits. You don’t argue that the hurricanes have to be destroyed. You don’t deal with the question of what the hurricane talks about with his friends the tsunamis.

When the smoke settles there will still be on one side of the border a country with a GNP larger than Portugal, a culture more vibrant than Greece and with better restaurants than London. On the other side of the border will still be a terror organization of a few thousand poor people, disenfranchised and forgotten who will celebrate on the ruins of their destroyed country. This is the only real victory, all the rest are emotional disorders.

“What are the objectives?” our learned commentators ask repeatedly. What are the objectives all the time? That as few of us as possible will die, that we’ll gain a few years of quiet, that we’ll continue to be aligned with the correct side of the globe.

Israel’s wars were never fought to resolve conflict. There is no resolution. The best one can hope for is to improve one’s position before the next outbreak of violence begins.

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  1. Ballan Bhira on Wed, Aug 16th 2006 11:38 AM

    2. Life in Israel is like life in the heavens. Do not bother about small intruptions in your life. you are the chosen people of God and his chidren. But at times the father is annoyed. You have to find out the reason. Do not annoy him again otherwise some punishment in the form of some other Hizbullah might come again.

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