Living Between Sirens and Headlines
Those who live here learn one important thing: life doesn’t wait for silence, it happens as it happens.
And the question is not whether it will be calm… the question is how you live when everything is noisy.
Those who live here learn one important thing: life doesn’t wait for silence, it happens as it happens.
And the question is not whether it will be calm… the question is how you live when everything is noisy.
As long as there are people here who continue to believe – not in the theory of binationality, but in the historical right of one small and troublesome people to return home – hope is not lost.
And deep down we still have a little bit of Jewish audacity, a little faith, and a little healthy cynicism – it will not disappear either.
If in the 20th century Germany tried to impose its policies through force, in the 21st century it is testing its weakness through morality.
What have we learned? Forgetting is forbidden, trusting is forbidden, losing is impossible
Two years after 10/7, the clear lesson is that the Jewish people must not be confused: not to believe in any promise of “world peace”, not to forget the price of complacency, and not to assume that the Western world will protect us.
The continent that once stood up to empires, crossed oceans and brought Western culture — stands up to nothing today. Not even itself. It chose to give up: identity, borders, national pride, intellectual freedom.
Israel is the opposite of Europe: a young, lively, stressed, cynical, armed, and quite self-confident people. And even if we sometimes think we are crazy — at least we are not committing suicide in the name of tolerance.