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Liba's avatar

I was here for all of it, but was busy with family and trying to make a livelihood. I didn’t really understand what was happening. Just the feeling of fortifying ourselves in our houses (during the early 2000’s), and my small children not understanding why I was balling my eyes out on the day after Tisha B’Av, while they removed Jews and Jewish gravestones from the beautiful Gush Katif (Gaza). You have explained it well, and of course the mechanisms behind it all. So here we are.

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Joe Keysor's avatar

A profound and insightful analysis. But the religious dimension needs to be discussed at some point. Is it not because of secularism that so many Israelis have the dream of an Israel that is essentially no different from Holland or Belgium?

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