OK, I have to admit that now that it hit home, something’s changed. The siren, office evacuation, frantic running-down-the-stairs-to-reach-the-bomb-shelter and hearing a big explosion not so far away while still on the way to the shelter, gave me a new realization about what the people of Sderot and the rest of the Southern District in Israel are going through for the past 12 years.
Leaving politics aside, and taking the current military operation as a given, I’m amazed by the enormous effort taken by the Israel Defense Forces to surgically attack missile launchers deeply embedded inside civilian population.
The absurdity of it all, having thousands upon thousands of Syrians slaughtered for months – just a few kilometers to the north – while the world stands still; having terrorists hiding behind women and children in Gaza, launching rockets targeted at women and children in Israel; having both sides post Twitter statuses, and even @replying to each other… reminds me again and again what a genius Einstein was:
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
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