It is a very slow process, the healing, the incorporation of the facts of what happened to us, what it means, what its implications are, and how it will be possible to achieve a normal life after.  For me, it is not that bad – I’ve been through wars before and not that much happened to me any of the times.  I’ve never been shot at directly, although sometimes I felt like I had a target on my shirt when I felt the rockets getting closer and closer.  I’ve never been in the situation the people in Gaza are in now.  

And I’m trying to get to the point that I can actually feel their humanity.  Vivian Silver, whose body was found last week, used to meet cancer patients at the Gaza border and take them to the hospital in Israel for treatment.  She was a friend of my friends and she really believed in peace.