Letter from Israel

"I wish I could calm you and that I had good news .. . but things are awful here .. . just awful.  Seriously, there is this heavy atmosphere, less people go out, nobody is smiling. ..  when I walk down the streets in Tel Aviv, all I hear through open windows are TV's and radios that people are listening to in order to hear about the latest threat and the latest death toll in the north.  I can't read the newspapers without starting to cry  . ..  listening to news updates every hour there is another name read of someone else who has been killed by a rocket attack.. .  it is actually getting a bit scary with all the talk of what if ...  what if Syria, what if Iran, what if the entire area .. . where will the rest of the world be .. .  the katusha rockets are awful and they have ones that can reach Tel Aviv.  In fact, Tel Aviv has just been raised to a higher alert level by the Homefront Command and I just got an email from my work in order to inform us where the bomb shelters are in our building. Many of my friends are up north in the army and I two of my friends' friends' have already been killed. More so, many of my friends are in the army up north and I can't focus at work worrying for their safety and future. The strike on the navy ship is becoming a national tragedy.. .  we feel like we underestimated our enemy and that we weren't ready . . . that we don't have the intelligence that we need.  Iran and Syria seem to be trying to drag us into a war. To be honest, the scariest thing is not, what if a missile attack hits Tel Aviv, its the meaning of it.  If or when a missile hits Tel Aviv, it will be all out warfare in the middle east and we, not only us Israelis, but the entire Jewish population will be fighting for our existence.  These are countries that want us (Jews, Israelis and Westerners) dead and wiped off the map . ..  and it seems as if they have the capabilities to do so.  What is even scarier, is that other countries are saying that we are acting disproportionately . . . hearing those statements makes it easier to understand how the world stood by as the Nazis murdered 6,000,000 Jews. I am telling you this for one reason, so that you will not feel so far away from what is happening here. The fact of the matter is, that this does affect you. Iran has not only said that he wants to destroy Israel, but that it wants to create Europe into a Pan-Islamic state and destroy the U.S. Don't be foolish, don't think it can't happen . ..  and don't think that the U.S. is untouchable and invisible.  There are Hezbollah factions in the U.S., they have been arrested. . . watch where you are going and what you are doing .. .  because it would not be surprising if Hezbollah decided to wake up sleeper terrorist cells abroad.  Do NOT underestimate them .. . the biggest mistake is to not respect the power of Hezbollah, Syria and Iran. I do not mean to scare you, but to move you to action. Write to your senators, write to the news media ...  force the U.S., the U.N. the G8, etc .. .  to support Israel .. .  force news media to accurately and unbiasedly cover the war .. . and to correctly verbalize the threat upon Israel, its people and its very existence. Force news agencies to show the Golan Heights accurately as part of Israel and NOT Syria . ..  Please, just do something!"

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