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!
Today my friend told me that they are feeling some fatigue, but they know they are safe in central Israel. But everybody is worried and scared for those who live in the South. For them it’s not war. It is genocide. They will not be prisoners…
I think that is such a horrible thing. How can so many people here in the Western Countries relativize…
How can they hate the free world in which they thrive?
I hope your friends are safe Ovidio this is surely a worrying time sadly there is not much one can do except pray they stay safe along with being able to get out of that area to safety.
Sometimes I feel that there will never ever be peace on this rock as from the dawn of time till now there is always a conflict going on somewhere whilst along with poverty these two things will seem to haunt us for the milenia of time.
I can't help but think that Hamas wants to draw Israel into a ground offensive in Gaza either because they are better equipped than Israel realises or Israel's other enemies plan to attack at the same time or both. A very difficult situation to know how to resolve either peacefully or militarily.
If Hamas was to stop firing thousands of rockets into Israel and release all the hostages that it holds in Gaza it would greatly help the situation.
I don't know why some are so quick to believe what Hamas say like we have seen recently at the hospital incident in Gaza.
PM
Originally Posted by Ovidio
