My parents were refugees, and so was I – and even though my situation was nowhere nearly as difficult as the situation facing the people in Gaza who remember their expulsion from Israel – I would urge them to do everything possible to move temporarily to the south.  It isn’t going to go well.  

Here I am giving advice and even though my own family is urging us to take a break and go abroad for a while, I barely leave the house.  How we cling to our home, as if it would save us.