Every day I get another letter criticizing Israel.  Today it was a letter and a phone call.  The letter was about how Israel is so selfish it won’t share the iron dome with Ukraine.  The thing is that Israel is a very small country, and could fit into a pocket of Ukraine.  And if the Hamas and Hizballah were using rockets the size of Russia’s,  we would disappear in a minute.  Many of the buildings in Ukraine are still standing, albeit in skeleton form, but there would be nothing left of our house if one of those bombs fell in our neighborhood.

The phone call was from a friend in New York who left Israel years ago in protest over the occupation.  She came to the understanding suddenly that we aren’t the worst country in the world.   It is very hard to be good and moral in a world in which everyone else is not following your rules. Or any rules for that matter.