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As it happens - 2.10.24

No, I’m not going to tell you about what happens as it happens, but I will tell you how it feels.  

Yes, we’ve been busy avoiding rockets.  It takes great concentration to be ready at any given moment to run for shelter.  You have to know where every shelter is wherever you are, and be dressed for it.  We sleep in our clothes because the shelter is 2 stories down and full of people nowadays.  We open the door of our building to make sure that passersby come in, and usually there is someone we don’t know with us.  The rockets last night were particularly loud and shook the building so much that my neighbour said – “well, we won’t have to argue about remodelling any more.  But even though there were many of them, we weren’t hit at all, and went upstairs to our dinners when it was over as if nothing had happened.  The neighbour’s salmon burnt, but not too badly.

The area not far from us, though, had holes 30 feet deep.

I believe the Iranians thought they were targeting military bases, and we were just collateral damage.  But the weapons they were using were so powerful there was bound to be serious civilian damage.  And I don’t think they cared.

Yes, I know we hurt people in Lebanon and Gaza and Yemen as well, and it doesn’t matter to the victims that it was on purpose or not, but I am sure we haven’t thought about how the lives of every one – injured or not – has been radically altered in every way.

And I have started using a timer on my stove so the food doesn’t get burnt if I have to run off.  Highly advised.

 

 

 

 

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all's well. over. 2.10.24

We spent the morning checking on relatives and friends.  So far all’s well, but considering the fact that civilian targets all over the country were attacked in two very violent waves.  Down in our shelter we heard the booms with great noise and trembling.  Some of our younger neighbors were paralyzed with fear, but the old people who managed to get down to the shelter were almost blase’ – following the news with whatever internet access they could achieve…

I need to add that about half of the people in the shelter were Arab. 

 

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181 ballistic missiles - 1.10.24

Our evening was spent with our neighbors in the shelter, listening to the dreadful booms.  When I think of how my parents went through the Blitz, how my mother had to run to the hospital to give birth in the middle of the rocket fall, I feel I have nothing to complain about. 

I’d love to stay and chat but there are people who need to be informed that we’re still here….

 

  

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We've Been Busy - 1.10.24

700 tunnels from the northern border have been uncovered and destroyed.  Had they been used on Oct 7,  Sinyuar and Nasrallah could have met in Tel Aviv for coffee.  The fact that these sites have been destroyed doesn’t mean we’re safe from attack by any means, but it does mean we’ve avoided this particular bomb.  Now we have to be ready for the bombs from Iran tonight.

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what new hell is this - 30.9.24

The holidays begin in 2 days.  For the first time since I can remember, many people are not celebrating it.  There will be 4 days – from Wednesday evening until Saturday night – when the stores are closed and there is nothing to do but pray, entertain family, and see friends.  I have always enjoyed these days, but now  I will be mourning the disappearing hostages, the possible war ahead, and fearing and hoping for the new direction we were taking.    The tension is palpable.

I don’t even know if I will be seeing my kids in the next days…

Tonight we said good-bye to the season of our evenings on the beach.  It’s just beginning to get cool when the sun goes down and the restaurant we frequent closes for lack of clients in the evening.  Maybe there really is a possibility for new starts.

 

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Roller Coaster - 29.9.24

we had it all figured out this morning.  All the politics.  The security.  The finances.  

By the afternoon, the situation had changed – we were bombing Yemen. (we felt just a bit more secure)

tonight – hizballah is bombing haifa

(Get dressed again – don’t expect to sleep)

and this is just in the space of a few hours.

 

 

 

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