My heart is with you back in Israel now!

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Those are not easy days now in Israel, with the withdrawal from Gaza and the removal of the settlers. It’s on the news here all the time. I don’t watch TV so much, but I read the Israeli websites, something I didn’t do much since I was travelling.
Everybody knows what’s going on. Whenever I say I am from Israel I get sympathetic comments. Of course in the Jewish museum I met some religious people that support the settlers and were mad at Sharon, saying “he sent them there”. I told them sometime people make mistakes and they have to correct them. I don’t think I convinced them though.
Most people that I meet think we’re doing the right thing, but they sympathise with the agony of the people that need to leave their homes. Sometimes I have to explain the situation because people can't understand who's fighting against who.
It’s good to be in the news not for bombs and suicide terrorists, for a change, but I am still longing for the day that we’ll be in the news here just to tell about some great invention or an Israeli Nobel prize winner, for literature or medicine.

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