And On & On & On
Kate Deutsch
Dear Readers,
I hope that so far you have all enjoyed reading my articles. These articles are only to let people everywhere know what life here is like, in as many aspects as I can bring across.
I want to start this article off a little differently, maybe even (if possible) more personally.
September first I started my National Service at Meir Hospital. I work in the Women's Ultra Sound Unit, as an assistant and front desk receptionist. For one of the first times in my life, I am confronted with Arabs and Jews, working side by side right in a main institution, in the middle of the city, the city of Kfar Saba.
The first two weeks of work went fine on all aspects concerned, far from the continual tension in Jerusalem. I enjoyed a sense of peace and I would even say ignorance.
Then in a mere second we were back to the same routine, a suicide bomber on a bus in Tel Aviv, just 20 minutes away.
At this point the circle of death drew smaller and closer. Jonathan Jensen, the 19-year-old, one of the six murdered, was a friend of a girl named Nirit who works with me. I did not write anything after this attack as I was more focused on trying to see what effect it would have in the work relations here in the hospital. But, as far as I could see, all took the attack with pain and horror. How can you hate those who are obviously hurting with you?
Yesterday, a man died. He was not really even a man yet, just 22, a beloved friend to all, a second death to my friend Nirit. Ari Weiss, was her boyfriend's brother. And so the circle of death closes in upon us, and the thoughts become yet grimmer.
This life we are born to, doesn't prepare us for so much grimness, so much pain.
There is so much that we learn, from living here. I wish I could say this is something that will pass, something that becomes better, but it doesn't, we grow weary.
When I watch reports from around the world, I can't understand, how the world is so quick to judge and condemn us.
Have they already forgotten the slaughter in Ramallah a year ago?
Have they forgotten the babies and innocents from Sbarro attack?
I can't say that there are no innocents killed on the other side. But, I am not here to put blame, I only wish, for more tolerance, why be so quick to judge?
What choice did we have but to take the power from the man who oversees suicide bombers, snipers, roadside bomber, and so on??
Should we let him continue harboring murderers?
I watch the news quite often, does the world not hear when they say that fanatic Muslims shot, bombed, murdered, slaughtered so forth and so on innocents around the world, daily? How can they ignore this "little" detail?
I assure you, that its not Jews who are killing people over not believing in our G-d.
So as always, I end in a promise. We will not give up, we will not bow down, and we will fight and defend our right to live, in peace, with no fear.
For the right to go out, for the right to take trips, to live life.
When ever I hear about a bomb or a terror attack, I feel a clenching pain in my chest, this is one of my people, even if I don't know them personally, I know them as a Jew as an Israeli and as a person.
Sincerely, Kate
(18, female, born and raised in Jerusalem, Israel)
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