We had one day of celebration about the 4 hostages we rescued.  Then we started worrying about the propaganda they might have heard.  And we’re beginning to pay attention to the fact that we’ve emptied out the North of people from October 7, and the damage of the incessant bombing and the human neglect is irrevocable.

My friend from Metula sits in her room in a hotel in Tiberias – her Parkinson’s isn’t improved by the fact that she doesn’t have the heart to do her exercises after hearing the daily news.  Every day the mayor tells the residents what the damage is, whose house has been bombed, what farms have been destroyed.  I have to go up there to see her but Ezi had a mole taken out of his shoulder today and can’t drive and I’m a little scared of driving myself. 

This sounds silly but not doing this one little act makes me feel like I’ve screwed up the one little task I can fulfill to alleviate a situation that is affecting hundreds of thousands of people. 

It got me thinking about Mark Twain.  He wasn’t talking about the Jews, but it suits the situation:

“Behold, the fool saith, “Put not all thine eggs in the one basket” – which is but a matter of saying, “Scatter your money and your attention”; but the wise man saith, “Pull all your eggs in the one basket and – WATCH THAT BASKET.”  

We should be watching that basket….