I started this blog in 2002 because I was so upset about the lies being told about Israel all the time. Lies being told and being believed.

I don’t care any more. It doesn’t matter.

My mother-in-law often tells about life in Tel Aviv during the 1948 war. Many would like to portray that war as the wicked Jewish intruders coming and pushing out the locals. But I hear from my mother-in-law, who was born in Tel Aviv, about how her father went out to get her medicine in the night and was shot at by Arab snipers while crossing Balfour Street. Now if you know where Balfour Street is, you’ll know how very dangerous life in the center of Tel Aviv was in those days.

And she also tells of Bish’s father, who was once walking in Allenby Street, just by Mugrabi Cinema. He was walking with a friend, pushing his bike so they could talk, just two teenagers walking along and chatting. After a while, he discovered he was walking on his own, talking to himself. Arab snipers from Jaffa had shot his friend dead. Again, if you know Allenby Street and the Mugrabi Cinema at all, you will know how incredible this is, how hard to grasp.

And I grew up in Haifa with the stories of street battles between Hadar and the lower city.

That war was a fight to survive. A terrible terrible war, killing one percent of the Jewish population and many newcomers, Holocaust survivors fresh off the boats. It was touch and go. Us or them.

Never since has Israel’s home front been so targetted. Not even when we sat in air shelters here in Tel Aviv during the Gulf War of 1991. Not even near.

Never, until now.

This is still a fight to survive. And anyone who thinks differently is deluded.

Still we’re the bad guys.

Brave kids are fighting for us in Lebanon, getting wounded, getting killed. Whole families have been sitting underground for weeks, many others are refugees. People are being killed and wounded in their homes, thousands of homes have been destroyed. By an organization described by some foreign media as a ‘resistance movement’. Resistance against what exactly?

Against Israel’s existence. They are quite clear about that.

The situation is that Lebanon has to burn right now if Israel is to survive. I’m sorry for the people on the other side, but that is the way it is. Us or them. In that respect we are not doing nearly enough for the enemy to get the picture. No, for the enemy to cease to be.

So I’m supposed to be bothered about the usual lies being told about us by our enemies, those who wish us to cease to be? Excuse me if I don’t give a $%^&!