Israel's Quiet Nightmare
Words are Worth a Thousand Pictures

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
January 6, 2009

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/400/israel-quiet-nightmare

Excerpt:

Try to imagine sitting in a bomb shelter, shaking with terror, day after day, year after year. No, try to imagine having to run to get to that shelter; once the siren screams, you'll have only one minute before the rocket will strike. Imagine that you're elderly or disabled, imagine that you're diabetic but have forgotten your insulin, imagine that your children are freaking out or that you can't find them.

Imagine that you're faced with a version of (the very fictional) Sophie's Choice: Do you seek shelter yourself or do you keep looking for your children? Do you give up your job, keep your children at home and out of school? Do you scatter them among your relatives elsewhere in the country? How does a person resign herself to not being in control of ordinary life "for the duration?"

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