We’re watching television. The list on the right is from the Homefront Command, letting everyone know in real time which communities in Northern Israel are currently experiencing rocket and missile alarms (one of the towns on this list is the home base for the amazing gap year leadership program for young men from at-risk situations that our organization runs), thanks to Hezbollah.
This is a daily occurrence, and often happens several times a day. Sometimes the list is longer, and on occasion, it flashes so quickly that I can’t actually read the names because there are too many to fit on the side of the screen. This has been our reality for nearly a year. Homes and communities have been destroyed, large tracts of land have been burned, innocent civilians have been injured and killed. Tens of thousands of Israelis are still internally displaced from the north, while others are living under fire on the front lines. We don’t even know the full scope of the destruction because it’s too dangerous to investigate.
Would you want to live like this? Would you want your friends and loved ones to live like this?
If you couldn’t be bothered to voice your condemnation of Hezbollah even once for indiscriminately firing more than 8,500 rockets across the border during the past year, but you’re angry that Israel chose to go after those same terrorists via a targeted surgical strike (with an unfortunate yet very small number of civilian deaths), it doesn’t make you moral or ethical – it makes you anti-Israel (and possibly antisemitic).
