Letter from Israel

How are You?
Thanks, I am fine!

No, I am not the least afraid to go any place,

 by bus or to a mall.

I didn't change or stop doing anything I used to do before this last mess began!

People tend to forget that twice the casualties of terror get killed on the roads!

(Actually it is about ten times now, that is, there are much less terror casualties since the Fence or Wall is there...)
More people still die from heart attack, cancer, and other things. They just don't show on TV.

Don't misunderstand me, there is a war going on. It's not easy, but, lets face it:

WE HAVE NEVER BEEN BETTER OFF!!!!

It's only TV

and the media that make people think that the end of the world is coming.

Only 60 years ago, they were leading Jews to their death like sheep to the slaughter! No Country, No Army.
Only 55 years ago:

Seven Arab countries declared war on the small Jewish State

 

, only a few hours old!!

We were then 650,000 Jews! Against the whole Arab world!
No IDF [Israel Defense Force]. No mighty Air Force , just tough people with nowhere to go.
Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, attacked all at once. The country the UN "gave us" was 65% desert.

The country started from scratch!
35 years ago!! We fought the three strongest armies  in the Middle East, and wiped them out in six days.
We fought against different coalitions of Arab countries, With modern armies, and masses of Soviet Russian weapons, and we still won!!!

We have today A country, An army, A strong Air Force.

A Hi-Tech Economy, exporting billions. Intel - Microsoft - IBM develop their stuff here.
 
Our doctors win world prizes for medical developments. A fresh Nobel-prize in science.
We made the desert flourish, selling oranges and vegetables to the world. We taught our methods free in dozens of countries in Africa and Asia.

Israel has sent its own satellite into Space!! Three satellites all together.
We sit proudly in the Satellite Club; with the US with 250 million people, with Russia with 200 million people, with China with 1.1 billion people, with the European Union -- France, England, Germany - with 350 million people. The only countries in the world to shoot something into space!!
No, not this; this one is shot by somebody else in the Middle East.

Israel is today in the world nuclear power family. With the US, Russia, China, India, France, and England. [We don't admit it, but everyone knows...]

We crawled out of the burning ashes of Europe, We won our wars here with less than nothing in our hands, We built a great country out of nothing.

Now who the hell is this? Arafat?
Who the hell is Mr. Arafat to make me scared? You make me laugh!
Passover was celebrated; Let's not forget what the story is all about.
We overcame Pharaoh, We overcame the Greeks, We overcame the Romans, We overcame the Inquisition in Spain, We overcame the Pogroms in Russia, We overcame Hitler, We overcame the Holocaust, We overcame the armies of the seven Arab countries,
We overcame Saddam. Take it easy, folks, We shall overcome the present enemies too.
No matter Which part of human history you try!
Think of it, for us, for the Jewish  people our situation has never been better!!!
So, Let's Lift our Heads High, Let's Remember:

Any nation or culture that tried to mess around with us was destroyed - while we kept going!!!

Egypt? Anyone know where their empire disappeared to? The Greeks? Alexander the Great? The Romans? Does anyone today speak Latin?
The Third Reich? Anyone heard any news about it lately?

And look at us, The Nation from the Bible, from slavery in Egypt, we are still here, speaking the same language!! Right here, right now.
 
The Arabs don't know it yet, but, they will learn that there is one G-d.
As long as we keep our identity, we are eternal. So, sorry for not worrying, not bitching, not crying, not being scared.

Things are O.K. here.
They surely can be better, but still: Don't fall for the media junk. They won't tell you that there are Festivals going on, That people keep on living, That people are going out, That people are seeing friends.
Yes, our morale is sometimes low, so what? It's only because we weep for our dead while they enjoy the blood.
This is the same reason why, we shall win, after all.
So there is nothing to worry about. Think BIG, and see the whole picture. And come to see us:
 

"See You Next Year in Jerusalem."

 

 

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