You ask an Israeli on the street how he is and she will probably say “Well, considering the situation.”  We’re at war, people here are dying every day, the world hates us, and we’re “well.”  In a way it has something to do with the past, and how absolutely terrible the Holocaust was for everyone.  Even here, when we waited for the British to run away and leave us to the Nazis to slaughter us all.  Or after the war when we in the US sent packages of food and used clothes to Israel.  Or during the Yom Kippur war when we had no communication with our relatives who were soldiers for months (I have no doubt that war ruined my marriage and many more.)    So the fact that we’re still functioning, even though some of us are being hidden in pitch-black tunnels, and more are fighting down south and up north against pretty brutal enemies, is not the worst that can happen to us.