Extended family in Israel

[Ovidio]

I had my flight to Tel Aviv canceled Monday. Obviously...
Had to go to Sderot and Be'Ersheva to see customers with my agent and friend.
Close to my customer, the kids at the music festival have been butchered. In Sderot and in many kibbutzes in the area, those inhuman massacres have taken place.
I'm really heartbroken.
My friend is ok, as is his family, but I've been traveling the Middle East for 27 years now. I know every country there.
Deal with them a lot. I know exactly on which side I am.

In July, I went to see the same people I wanted to see these days, and took my son Alessandro (20) with me.
He loved Israel immediately. He told me, he felt like in some kind of very young and dynamic Europe.
When I went in the Negev, he took the train from Rehovot and got a look at Tel Aviv.
In the evening, when we met and went for dinner, he told me what he saw, the people, the girls (he said that those in uniform and with the rifle had a terrifying appeal on him).
The last day, we went to Jerusalem, and met with customers. He came with us (me and my agent). He could see how Israeli, Jews and Palestinians can work together. Like anywhere else.
Some of the Palestinians also told him that they don't vote for the islamic parties, because they know what would come with them and prefer freedom and democracy.

All in all... it is the first time in my life that I can't go somewhere because there is a carnage going on.

I don't feel good about it at all...

I pray for my friends over there, and also for all the innocents being slain.
Not for the murderers. I wish them hell!