I’m standing in line to buy a radio. I already bought flashlights, batteries, a generator, and whatever else my wife wrote on our “war shopping list.” But if Israel goes to war with Iran, and the internet gets cut off, then I must have a radio to stay connected with the outside world.
The line in the store is long and somber. Everyone wears their fear and anxiety on their faces. We look like extras in one of those apocalyptic movies about the end of the world.
“Israel is fighting for its very existence — otherwise there will be a new Holocaust.” This is the sentiment I hear in the conversations taking place around me in the line. If there is one thing my therapist taught me, it is to try to understand people’s fear without judgment. But their existential dread belies the fact that Israel maintains one of the strongest militaries in the world. And whereas on the eve of the Holocaust, the United States turned away the MS St. Louis, full of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, today the United States arms Israel to the teeth. ….more