We were sitting in a cafe in the shopping center talking about poetry when suddenly there was a big boom.  Everyone looked around, just a bit startled. and we went back to our poems.  It’s Tel Aviv, after all, and most of us aren’t even aware of the shower of rockets down south last night that sent all the people to the shelters within seconds, many for the entire night.  

It’s not surprising, then, that you don’t know about it.  It’s one of the things we don’t talk much about, the targeting of civilians in rocket attacks and/or terrorist incidents.  A stabbing here, a car-ramming there, a barrage of rockets – we on the left usually blame ourselves.  But it was the people on the right who elected a more aggressive government, and who expected results.  Me, I see times when our relationships improve, and it is worth working toward those times.