The Bubble Has Officially Burst

August 14, 2006 - 12:25 AM by

Harry writes:

The detachment I was having from the war a few weeks back has completely vanished. With friends from the north staying in shelters and/or leaving their abodes for missile-free zones and a growing group of friends and acquaintances now currently defending our homeland from those intent on destroying us, that not so much of a surprise, is it? I know I’m not alone. All these articles about Tel Aviv detachment and living in a bubble. Bullshit I say. There is no one who isn’t affected somehow by this war. We all know someone who is currently fighting up north. And we all feel pain when we read the obits of all the soldiers who are killed defending our country.

I don’t know. The tipping point for me was two-fold. The first was getting a frantic call from a friend who was just a hundred meters away from the ketyusha missile that killed 13 soldier’s last week. The second was receiving a chilling sms a few days ago from a dear friend in the reserves right now that read Anachnu Olim L’Gvul. We are heading to the border.

And with every unnamed soldiers death I read, I know that my friends are unreachable and the only way I’ll know if they are ok is when the names of the killed are published.

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2 Comments on The Bubble Has Officially Burst

  1. Colin Dale, London on Mon, Aug 14th 2006 1:13 AM

    2. Harry, if I lived in Israel instead of the Diaspora, I would think and feel exactly as you do. If I had family and friends in Israel, I would without doubt think and feel as you do. If my future was in Israel and I had a home and assets there, I would think as you do. But I don’t and as a non-Israeli Jew, I feel vehemently that successive Israeli governments, albeit acting with a mandate from their electorates, have in some part brought this tragedy upon them selves. The confining of the inhabitants of Gaza into a virtual cage with all air, sea and road access controlled by Israel is a recipe for disaster, a position that should have been obvious to all but apparently was and is not. The treatment of Palestinian Arabs by parts of the Israeli electorate as an inferior race, is a very outdated and ridiculous perception. Palestinians are no less intelligent than Israelis and have equal integrity. They also want to live free in their own homeland not controlled by Israel. If Israelis cannot or will not comprehend this, then the future is bleak. For the first time since the establishment of Medinat Yisrael nearly sixty years ago, Jews are reluctantly acknowledging that the very existence of the Jewish state may now be in real jeopardy. This has never ever been articulated before.

  2. Daphne on Mon, Aug 14th 2006 5:26 AM

    3. You and I and millions of others have been dealing with the same problem for as long as this war has been raging. The struggle between wanting to live as normal a life as possible (because there aren’t any rockets whistling at us) and the primal need to continually check the news and blogs and try to keep tabs on those who are in danger. It’s hard enough right now, where news can be spread nearly instantly. I can’t imagine how people dealt with it 50 years ago, when news was much slower.

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