WAR! (ba-bump) HA! (ba-bump) HUUHH!

WAR! (ba-bump) HA! (ba-bump) HUUH! ...
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If you're like me, you don't really pay attention to the news. So if you haven't heard, Israel is having a bit of a tiff with Lebanon at the moment. Our good friends in the Hezbollah decided that things were getting a little too quiet up north, and so they fired some rockets, blew up some jeeps, killed and kidnapped some soldiers. Israel responded by blowing the shit out of numerous military targets (at night, making sure to minimize civillian casualties). Same old routine.

Unfortunately (besides the obvious misfortune of it happening at all) the Hezbollah's attacks seem to indicate extensive planning. Also, Israel's "aggression" -- or as France and some other similarly spineless country likes to call it, "excessive response", or as I like to call it, "not even close to the bare minimum of justice" -- probably won't sit to well with the various hypocrites in power around the world. So, we may be in for a tough time here.

I've noticed it's different how people react here -- it's a very personal thing. Asides from the fact that it occurred (at most) hours away, practically everyone knows someone who serves or has served in the area that was attacked. It's not like in America where you hear of gang violence and shrug your shoulders, because you only feel bad about it in an abstract way. Maybe the feeling people had after 9/11 comes close, but that was an isolated incident, whereas in Israel people are faced with it practically every couple months.

Everyone I've seen seems a little depressed, and nobody wants to do anything besides sit and watch the news. Aside from preventing me from going to a jazz festival with Limor's family (since they don't feel like it right now, which I definitely understand), I don't know how this will affect me personally. Hopefully it won't get any worse than that, so let's keep our fingers crossed.

Seriously, what IS it good for?