Read on
and smile!
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 casualties from terror get killed on the roads! More people still die from heart attack, cancer and other things; they just don't show them on TV.
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 statred from scratch! 35 years ago!! We fough the three strongerst 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, Hi-Tech economy, exporting billions, Intel-Microsoft-IBM develop their products 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 (six satallites all together), we sit proudly with the U.S (250 million people), Russia (200 million people), China (1.1 billion) and Europeans - France-England-Germany (350 million) as the only countries in the world to shoot something into space!!!.
Israel is today in the world neclear power family with the US, 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 overcome Pharoah, we overcome the Greeks, the Romans, the inquisition in Spain, we overcome the pogroms in Russia, we overcome Hitler, the Germans, the Holocaust, we overcome seven other Arab countries at once, we overcome Saddam Hussien, Take it easy, folkswe will overcome these ones too.
No matter at what part of human hisotry 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 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 becasue we keep weep for our dead while they enjoy the blood ( And this the same reason why, we will win, after all)
You can forward this page (if you choose) to the whole Jewish community and the world. They are part of our strength and it might help some of them to keep their head up high; Tell them there is nothing to worry about. Tell them to think the BIG and see the whole picture.
"See you next year in Jerusalem"
" There is more to life than
merely increasing its speed"
- Gandhi.