Updating Life

So it been a while since I posted, not really had much to write about. Obviously Israel is in news for attacking Gaza... well at least that's what the press is saying. In fact Israel is defending itself against Hamas who since April has been protesting at the border... it’s a totally 'peaceful' protest. This “Peaceful protest” lead to the death of some of them who should not have been there and the death of many Hamas terrorists. When you live in fear of your leaders and they say 'Take your sick child to the border and if Israel retaliate we can blame them!' of course it happens. Never mind that the baby that died was sick and never inhaled tear gas, meaning she had passed of her congenital heart defect and not the tear gas. Unfortunately the media outside of Israel hears one side of the story, doesn't listen for the whole story and only reports that big, bad Israel has been up to no good again. As it stands currently there are fires raging in the south due to kite bombs being sent over from Gaza, these are destroying land, property, schools, homes and livestock. The rest of the world is not crying out with outrage at these acts of terror. Or the homemade bombs attached to balloons being found by children in their back yards that no one is reporting on. Hamas has been launching rockets at the south and yet the headlines are 'Israel strikes Gaza'... doesn't take a genius to see that people will see only that and think the worst of Israel.

I don't know what the answer is, Israel has the right to defend itself, sadly the media doesn't want to hear all the facts and tell a balanced story. One day maybe.

Anyway onto me, nothing major to report. Work is going okay, I in fact had my first Yom Kef or Fun Day with work last month. In all the time and places I've worked here in Israel and the UK, I've never had a company say we're going out for the day to have fun and not work. There was food, drinks, activities, jeep rides... I lost my hat.... got it back though...and it was nice to get away from the office do something really different.

Meanwhile I'm actually off today as my company is closed for Tisha B Av the saddest day in the Jewish calendar and yes it’s nice to have a 3 day weekend, but in some ways it’s not fun since everyone else is at work. Apart from one friend who I managed to hang out with for a couple of hours, I'm pretty much trying to find things to do to entertain myself. I think I will sit in the park and read, always nice to do that. Also its now less than 3 weeks to my birthday...oh dear I'm going to be 41....