Not the End of the World As We Know It

August 22, 2006 - 4:07 PM by

Michael Totten isn’t an Israeli blogger, but he’s in Israel right now, guest-blogging at Time’s Daily Dish, and he reports that Israelis in general are not freaking out over the doom-y August 22 predictions (I would agree.)

Civilians in Israel aren’t taking August 22 seriously…..

Noah Pollak, Assistant Editor at Azure Magazine in Jerusalem, said “I haven’t heard anyone talking about it. In Israel, you get numb to rumors of terrorist attacks — if you actually keep track of the minutiae of anti-terror activity here, you’ll find that around a dozen suicide bombings are prevented per month. Even the Israeli press doesn’t report on such things very often.” Noah lives in Jerusalem, but he is not an Israeli. He’s American. He has been here long enough, though, to absorb the unflappable Israeli attitude. Instead of planning a road trip out of town tomorrow, he invited me to go on a walking tour of Jerusalem’s Old City with him.

Lee Smith is an American journalist who moved from Beirut to Jerusalem during the Lebanon war. He likewise invited me on a walking tour of the Old City on the ill-fated date. Americans may be the only ones in the world taking this seriously. But that’s only true of Americans far from the scene. In Israel, August 22 is Tuesday, not Doomsday.

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  1. Yoel Ben-Avraham on Tue, Aug 22nd 2006 8:12 PM

    2. If I remember correctly, the religious of America made a monster issue over the year 2,000 (Second Millenium). Another ballon full of hot air and no substance.

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