Some of my friends living in foreign countries tried to comfort some of our Israeli friends by noting that every where in the world is dangerous, but come on.  Gaza is dangerous.  Levanon is dangerous.  Israel is dangerous.  Iran is dangerous.  Russia is dangerous.  Ukraine is dangerous.  Australia is not.  Canada is not….

to quote Tom Lehrer – together we go sliding down the razor blade of life.

and yet we’ve been laughing more than ever – because it is perhaps the last laugh.