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I'm scared. It's coming in waves. It's been a few weeks or more, and every headline is even scarier. We're like puppets on a string, dependent on the decisions of people whose minds no one understands.
It could happen tonight, or any of the following nights, maybe we'll die, maybe we'll live, maybe our house will just be destroyed, maybe we'll just get injured, maybe we'll just sit scared in our supposedly safe places. Maybe nothing will happen.
It's impossible to describe to someone who hasn't experienced it what it's really like.
In the meantime, I cooked meatballs in a sauce with onions, garlic, red pepper, and green olives. I added a spoonful of chicken broth and black pepper, and it turned out very tasty.
I also made Persian rice with lots of fried onions. I don't eat that kind of thing, but it was a wonderful distraction and there will be someone here who will eat it. My son, the one who will eat this food, asked this morning if we shouldn't move to Cyprus, for example. For a moment it was very tempting, but I don't think I will move, despite everything, unless I too become like those old Ukrainians I see in the Facebook videos, who people come to rescue from their rural homes that were once the center of their world.
There are a few Israelis who own houses on the island or nearby. It's a huge decision and so hard to make. You have family to consider and it's your homeland, your home.
ReplyDeleteWill any of your children consider moving?
I hope you will have peace and peace of mind
I don't think any of us will really leave. This is our place for better or worse.
DeleteAre you safe in the concrete bunkers under the houses or at least nearby? Putting away food and blankets under a house is a horrid way of living, but much better than not having a plan.
ReplyDeleteBe very safe!!! The whole family!
Our shelter is in the neighborhood, about thirty meters from my house, underground and I hope it is safe enough. There are no supplies there for a long stay and I hope it will be okay.
DeleteThose people far away making all these decisions should be made to live through what everyone is experiencing. They won't care, though.
ReplyDeleteWe have become a US protectorate, we no longer have the ability to influence anything.
DeleteYou're right, only if you've lived it can you know what it's like. I hope fervently for your safety.
ReplyDeleteThank you. From moment to moment the information changes, no one here knows anything, we hope for the best.
ReplyDeleteIt must be unbearable to live in this constant state of fear. I hope there will be a solution.
ReplyDeleteI too hope for quiet days, time will tell.
ReplyDeleteIt was shoah remembrance day this week and I watched some documentaries on tv about the time immediately after the war when the Jewish people were out of the concentration camps but had nowhere to go. It has showed me again that the state Israel has to be protected by all decent people and states. This is your country, and you have every right in the world to live there in peace and safety. There is a sentence from a drama of a German poet, Friedrich Schiller: "The best can not live in peace if the bad neighbour doesn´t like it." Sadly, this is so true.
ReplyDeleteStay safe, I pray for you every day.
Hilde in Germany
The Iranians are responsible for so much trouble around the world. They are mass murderers. I do hope that their leader ends up hanging from a crane in a public square. He deserves it.
DeleteHilde,Thank you for your support all this time. Today is quiet here, the sky is blue and the sun is shining, as if nothing happened, and I hope it stays that way.
DeleteCro,It is strange that there is such a separation and difference between the Iranian people and their rulers. The Iranian people suffer greatly, and the world is silent.
ReplyDeleteThey are too busy defending Hamas, and as Iran sponsors Hamas, they dare not say anything against them.
DeleteCro, I see this as the greatest hypocrisy in the world. If it's not somehow related to us, no one is addressing it.
DeleteAs always, it is a relief to hear from you and sobering to know how scary your daily life is and it's heartening that you share what is beautiful in your life, too. Sending love to you and your beloveds.
ReplyDeleteam, Thanks for the kind words as always. It really helps here. For now, the war is only in my head, it was a beautiful day here today, and there are many days like that. I try to see that mostly.
DeleteI'm glad to see a post from you but sorry to hear of the danger always surrounding you. I'm always hoping for peace, Yael.
ReplyDeleteEllen, Right now I'm trying to live from day to day, today was a good day and hopefully tomorrow will be too. Thank you for your concern.
DeleteI'm sure it's tempting to consider moving elsewhere, but it would be hard to leave home no matter the circumstances. Maybe you could go for a holiday, until things calm down? (Assuming they do.)
ReplyDeleteSteve, I really thought about it a lot, but of course I won't leave my family here, we all have European citizenship and could live in other places, something ties us here and it seems we won't leave.
ReplyDeleteLate , but sending you my love and support
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteSeeing the news this morning in the UK am thinking of you in the firing line. I do hope that this conflict will end quickly and that it will liberate Iran and free Israel.
ReplyDeleteThank you. The situation here is not easy, this too shall pass.
ReplyDeleteYael, just want to let you know I'm thinking of you and I care.
ReplyDeleteI hope you are safe, Yael.
ReplyDeleteHello, Yael. Sending love and prayers for the well being and safety of you and your family. It is difficult to even imagine what you are going through. I sometimes don’t remember your blog address so I go look it up on Cro’s blog. When I get to your blog I go back to the time that I last read it to catch up. I think of you often.
ReplyDeleteBonnie, Eellen and Audrey, Thank you for your support, I'm sorry I don't respond to everyone personally, but every word of yours is encouraging and helpful. Thank you.
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