"Give my regards to..."

"You're from Shiloh, so give my regards to..."

"How do you know her?"

"Our sons were murdered together."

"Oh..."

Then I quickly knew next to whom I was sitting. Unfortunately there have been so many terror attacks and so many victims nobody could be expected to remember them all, but davka this one I did. We spoke a lot more. It ended up that we have lots of mutual friends.

I'm not in the "club," Baruch Hashem--bli eyin haraa, but so many of my neighbors are, and I was lightly injured in a terror attack. We talked about how everyone reacts differently, and she told me about some of their memorial projects.

This could be considered one of those "only in Israel" posts, but it's not a cutesy, sweet, feel good one. It's just real life.

Taking On Caroline Glick!

What's the feminine version of -- David vs Goliath?

Being that I'm just a blogger, repected, maybe, but no competition for a well-known newspaper writer, editor and
Israel has a choice. It doesn't have to be a victim. Israeli leaders have chosen victimhood.
now book-writer, Caroline Glick, I wonder how much influence my opinion will have.  Even before hearing about her book, Hadassa De Young's comment to Shiloh Musings reminding me that Glick is a big Bibi Netanyau supporter took some of the shine off of her reputation.  I didn't have to read much to be totally dishenchanted.

"Shackled"?

I don't like the term the esteemed and respected Caroline Glick used to describe Israel in her book, Shackled Warrior: Israel and the Global Jihad.

"Shackled" is passive, meaning that someone did it to someone else. That means that Israel is some sort of victim. I don't think it's so simple.

Israel has a choice. It doesn't have to be a victim. Israeli leaders have chosen victimhood. That's the rationale behind using the Holocaust to excuse our having a state. The Jewish Nation existed long before the German one and long before Nazism. Even Zionism predates all that. We did not need to lose Six Million precious Jewish souls to "deserve" a state.

Our Zionist "leaders" have shackled ourselves. Just like Dorothy always had to power in herself to return to Kansas, we have the power to brake the shackles and be a free and independent nation-- if we really desire it!

The Unthinkable

Maybe I'm just old, but decades ago when I used to proudly dance down Fifth Avenue at the Salute to Israel Parade, I had no doubt that your typical Israeli was an unabashed patriot.

And they were.

That was before the peace parasite took hold of the kishkes here like a tapeworm, or maybe more like the
The Arabs don't want peace... that's why they're bombing Ashkelon, the Negev and Sderot, all pre-1967 Israel
seductive snake in the Garden of Eden.  Most of the population has been seduced by images of easy peace, "just give up a little unnecesary territory," listen to the claps and cheers of world leaders...

After the Six Days War, the world was in awe. 

• We could have, we should have annexed every inch, every centimeter of Land. 
• We could have, we should have built massive new modern Jewish cities in Judea, Samaria, Gaza.  Nobody protested the establishment of Yamit, nor the agricultural communities in that area.
• We could have, we should have banished all the resident Arabs who wouldn't pledge to recognize our sovereinty and obey our laws.

If we had just done that, acted like proud victors and celebrated Victory Day, rather than Jerusalem Day...

But instead we apologized for winning.  And we waited for the "call."  Someone had this fantasy that the defeated Arab countries would be sorry that they had attacked and lost and would offer us "peace" in exchange for the land we had won.  There's a major mistake in this theory.  The Arabs don't want peace, not at any price.  They want us dead and gone.  And that's why they're bombing Ashkelon, the Negev and Sderot, all pre-1967 Israel.  Just a few years ago, that would be unthinkable, and it would have been more unthinkable that we're sitting on our hands, passively waiting.  Waiting for what?  Good question.

Considering that barely two years ago, major Israeli cities in the north were attacked and we made no attempt to destroy the enemy, just "reduce" the violence.  Unthinkable...