Actually, I don’t have that much to say.  I don’t believe it, I guess.  Already my friend from Metula says they are  seeing threatening figures on the other side of the border.  The army here fired some warning shots over their heads  and they left, but it’s clear no one really understands the terms of the ceasefire.  If only if only it leads to the release of the hostages in Gaza…. 

Every night on TV there is an interview with a different former hostage.  I can watch a minute or two and then switch to something less terrifying – like Lebanon.  War is something I can understand, but the physical and mental torture is impossible to conceive.  Elyakim Rubinstein, former head of the high court, said that each of us should conceive of himself as if he/she is one of the hostages, or a family of a hostage.  I think most of us do exactly that.

So the most important thing about the ceasefire on my mind is just that – will it further the hostage return…

And in my head is the video that David Azoulay, the mayor of Metula, sent my friend of the damages in her home.  It’s a big mess and will take much renewal – but the piece of shrapnel she saved from the Gulf War is still sitting on a doily in her cupboard – a grisly reminder of the previous damages in an earlier war.