Jews Hiding in Fear

The years pass, father time marches on, but one thing always remains the same:  Jews in hiding from murderous scumbags. 

The Sheriff of Sderot - Rebecca Anna Stoil
Uri Bar-Lev, the commander of the Israel Police's Southern District, has temporarily relocated the district headquarters to Sderot and is cruising around town when the emergency siren sounds. He notices a young woman who has stopped her car and is paralyzed with fear, unable to turn off the engine or leave the vehicle. As the first rocket falls in the distance, Bar-Lev coaxes the woman, a Sderot resident who has witnessed one too many barrages in recent days, to leave the vehicle and take cover. A second later, a rocket shrieks overhead, plunging into a nearby house. Arriving first on the scene where the Palestinian rocket has barreled through the house's wall, Bar-Lev crouches down next to the house's owner, who is holding his ears and rocking back and forth in shock.
    Bar-Lev muses: "Against terror, the deciding factor is not the army....The deciding factor is the fortitude of the people. Not just to stay because of economic motives, but also on an ideological level. The most important answer to terror is that statement: 'Nobody is going to force me out of here. Another 1,000 rockets might fall, but I will stay here because it is my home.'"  (Jerusalem Post)

I can't stand to read about it anymore. It really bothers me. When does it end?  When does the Jewish world get to live in peace? When do Jews get to catch their breath and be a calm and safe religious community, free from controversy, free from violence, free from being the target of hatred?

Israel was born into such idealism. After the Holocaust it was such a beautiful thing to behold.  It is so very painful to watch what is being done to it.