Israel’s message to neighbors: Get over it

May 16, 2011 - 12:08 PM by

Israel's first electric car is set to go on sale.

On the day when all of Israel’s borders were either infiltrated – or threatened with infiltration – Israelis went about their business as usual. Except for the unlucky poor soul in Tel Aviv who was crushed by a truck driver, who evidently, like those who bombarded our borders with rocks, is incensed that Israel exists.

Unless you were in the truck driver’s deadly route which killed one and injured 17, or one of the soldiers who had to faced the onslaught of Palestinian protesters who breached Israeli sovereignty in misplaced anger over the misguided decisions their leaders’ made over 60 years ago, then yesterday’s Nakba ‘Disaster’ festivities didn’t have much impact.

It’s certainly disheartening that after 63 years, Israel is still an island amid a sea of hostility. On Sunday, the IDF dealt with four simultaneous fronts – Syria, Lebanon, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. And as Defense Minister Ehud Barak pointed out, the soldiers acted with unnatural restraint in the face of belligerent foreign nationals attempting to violently infiltrate the border.

“We used protest dispersal methods, but the number of people involved made this difficult. There comes a moment when there’s no choice but to fire at their legs and it is very good that forces acted with restraint and judgment and we did not have here a ruinous bloodbath,” he said, in response to the unprecedented assault on Israel.

The Hirya garbage dump has been transformed into an enormous environmentally sound 'paradise'

Still, the headlines focused on a Syrian being killed and dozens being wounded, as well as casualties on the Lebanon border, although it’s unclear still if they were the result of the IDF shooting or due to the Lebanese Army trying to keep the protesters away.

While our neighbors evidently continue to live in the past and prefer to wallow in anger and self pity, Israel is… well, moving on. On the same day as the protests, the announcement came that the first Israeli electric car is going on sale next week, and the opening of the environmentally friendly Ariel Sharon Park, on the site of the notorious Hirya garbage dump, is opening on Wednesday.

Just because we live in a bad neighborhood, it doesn’t mean our day is going to be ruined.

Tags: • Category: A New Reality, coexistence, Environment, General, Israeliness, Life, News, Technology, War 

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2 Comments on Israel’s message to neighbors: Get over it

  1. idit on Mon, May 16th 2011 1:34 PM

    2. Spot on

  2. Renee Kuker on Tue, May 17th 2011 5:32 AM

    3. Israel has a right to exist if … if Syria has a right to exist … if Iran has a right to exist… if Lebanon has a right to exist … if ANY country on earth has a right to exist … China … Japan …. etc… It’s a self-evident truth. Israel wants peace. Self-evident. Israel has the same values as the U.S.A.: respect for the individual, for freedom, for life. Unfortunately there are countries that worship death, not life. Those are the countries that are humanity’s enemies.

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