DIALOG.......................
I am not the least afraid to go any place, by bus or to a mall. I
didn't change or stop doing ANYthing I used to do before this mess
began! People tend to forget that twice the number of casualties from
terror here in Israel get killed on the roads! More people still die
from heart attack, cancer, and other things; they just don't show them
on TV.
Don't misunderstand me, there is a war going on, it's not pleasant,
but lets face it.. WE HAVE NEVER BEEN BETTER!!!! It's only TV and media
that make people think it's the end of the world coming.
Only 60 years ago!! They were leading Jews to their death like
sheep to the slaughter!
No country, no army. 55 years ago!! Seven Arab countries declared
war on the small Jewish State, only a few hours old!! We were then
650,000 Jews!
Against the rest of the Arab world! No IDF, no mighty air force,
just tough people with nowhere to go (Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan,
Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, attacked all at once).
The country the U.N. "gave us" was 65 % desert. The country started
from scratch!
35 years ago!! We fought the three strongest armies in the Middle
East, and wiped them out in six days. We fought against different
coalitions of Arab countries, with modern armies, and masses of Russian
soviet weapons, and still won!!!
We have today a country, and an army, and a strong air force, and
hi-tech economy, exporting millions, Intel-Microsoft-IBM develop their
stuff here, our doctors win world prizes for medical developments, we
made the desert flourish, selling oranges and vegetables to the world.
Israel has sent its own satellite!! In space (three satellites all
together!!), we sit proudly with the U.S. (250 million people), Russia
(200 million people)! China (1.1 billion), the Europeans
--France-England-Germany (350 million), as tthe only countries in the
world to shoot something into space!!
Israel is today in the world nuclear power family with U.S, Russia,
China, India, France, and England. (We don't admit it, but every one
knows...) To think that only 60 years ago, we were led, shameful, with
no hope, to our death!!
We crawled out of the burning ashes of Europe, we won our wars here
with less than nothing in our hands, we built an "empire" out of
nothing. Who the hell is Mr. Arafat to make me scared? Terrified? You
make me laugh! Passover was last month, let's not forget what the story
is all about. We overcame
Pharaoh, we overcame the Greeks, the Romans, the inquisition in
Spain, we overcame the pogroms in Russia, we overcame Hitler, the
Germans, the Holocaust, we overcame seven other Arab countries at once,
we overcame Saddam. Take it easy, folks, we will overcome these ones
too.
No matter at what part of human history you try! To think of, for
us, the Jewish people, our situation has never been better!!! So let's
lift our heads high, and remember: any nation or culture that tried to
mess around with us was destroyed to the ground -- while we kept
going!!! Egypt? Anyone know where their empire disappeared to? The
Greeks? Alexander of Macedonia?
The Romans? Anyone today speak Latin? The Third Reich? Anyone heard
any news about it lately?
And look at us, the nation from the Bible, from slavery in Egypt we
are still here, speaking the same language!! Right here, right now. The
Arabs don't know it yet, but they will learn there is one God. As long
as we keep our identity, we are eternal.
So, sorry for not worrying, bitching, crying, or being scared,
things are going O.K. here. They surely can go better, but still, don't
fall for the media junk, they won't tell you that there are festivals
going on,
people keep on living, going out, seeing friends. Yes, our morale
is low, so what?
It's only because we weep for our dead while they enjoy the blood
(and this is the same reason why, we will win, after all).
See you "next year in Jerusalem".
Dave Markowitz