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Zeev Shemer is a writer and full-time teacher who works with B'Ahavat Yisrael, a charitable organization that helps Jews worldwide
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By Zeev Shemer
January 8, 2008
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At 4am we heard a loud booming sound. It was raining so I assumed it was a real loud thunder. My wife knew right away it had to have been a rocket explosion, so her immediate assumption was that our military was conducting more exercises.
Our youngest daughter stormed into our bedroom. "It's only thunder" I told her. "Aba, it reminds me of last year's war" she said. Little did I know that two Katyusha rockets hit our neighboring town of Shlomi.
"It angers me" was my wife's reaction. "I won't let Arabs scare me out of my home or out of my country". This I wasn't expecting. For a while my wife had been complaining about Israelis' lack of manners and how nice customer service was in America; At times I though she was longing to return. But not under their terms, that she made clear.
Our oldest kids, 16 and 17 went with their friends to Yerushalayim to "welcome" Bush. They had signs of "Don't give money to the Palestinians", "Don't divide Jerusalem", and of course, "Let Jonathan Pollard come home".
Rockets hitting our area last night angered me too. But more than that, I felt like our brothers and sisters when they were forcibly expelled from their homes in Gush Katif and northern Shomron, I felt useless! Where is our army? Where are our leaders? Who will send a clear message to those Arab barbarians in Lebanon and in Gaza, that launching rockets against Israeli towns is a BIG mistake? What can I do? Do I pick up my gun and jump over the fence? Where are my brothers and sisters? Where are the Israelis that used to care?
It is my duty to protect my children. It is our military's duty to protect our towns. This new general, Ashkenazi, where is he? Is he busy cleaning his stocks and investments like Halutz did last year? Then I had a dream: this Ashkenazi fellow stormed the Knesset and established a temporary military government. He took Olmert, Peres and Barak into custody, and then he unleashed the Israeli army onto Gaza and Lebanon. The destruction to them was so great that the UN overflowed with condemnations, but believe you me, after that, no one ever dreamed again of messing with the Jewish state. Then I woke up.
Reality is much different. Many Israelis just don't care enough. Many want to leave, and some are simply sick leftist liberals that have their brains putrefied with "intellectual" drivel from morons like Beilin, Finkelstein, Landau, and others. Where are our true Jewish leaders? Is there anyone out there? "God, save! May the King answer us on the day we call".
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