Back in high school I was all radical and politically minded. I loved rallies and demonstrations. I wrote letters newspapers. I wanted to be a journalist. I even started a 1 person anti-Model UN club to protest religious Jewish schools legitimizing the organization that time and time again condemns Israel.
I have mellowed with age. These days I just want to live my life and not listen to all the shenanigans that go on around me. It isn't that I don't care about what happens in the world, I have just become jaded. I don't think I have the power to do much of anything.
Recently it has become really hard. With what is going on in Israel all of these anti-Israel posts have started to pop-up in my facebook feed. I mean I am all for diversity and difference of opinion but it is so hard to be friends with people who think of my people as a bunch of blood thirsty killers! I can't stay silent anymore, so I don't. I argue with people who will never see it my way and probably think I am a pro-war psychopath.
I just have trouble thinking of myself as friends with these people now. Which is sad because if it weren't for some of them my university experience would have been a complete misery. I mean some of these people are just casual friends but others are people I am legitimately friends with. The most upsetting part is that they really aren't even anti-Israel. They rightly so think the situation in Gaza is horrible- they are just placing the blame on the wrong party. No matter who has more casualties Israel is the victim. They just don't and never will see that.
I need to get out here. I need to surround myself with like minded people. I know hiding isn't the solution. I know it is the easy way out. But living in Chutz La'Artez surrounded by bleeding heart liberals isn't the solution either.
Honestly, I would just love to get to Israel and re-brand the government and Tzahal and pump up their PR and allow the world to see us for what we really are.
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