5 victims laid to rest
Just learnt she is pregnant
The above links are to the articles about victims of Wednesday's terrorist attack in Bulgaria targeted at Israeli tourists. Yesterday I have flew in from Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv. I was there when the plain from Burgas carrying wounded and survivors was expected. It was to land at 11.55, than at 1.55, finally it landed around 2.30 pm. I have seen Megan David Adom volunteers and workers waiting for its arrival, stern-faced, tense....
In front of the airport a row of ambulances were parked - one with the description "mobile emergency life saving unit". Waiting patiently for those to come. There were reporters (as would have been anywhere) but all members of supporting and medical services were so obviously affected! Nobody complained about this long wait, nobady relaxed, gave way to boredom or impatiency. They were waiting for their near and dear ones even if unknown to them personally.
What kind of world is this that holding the passport of given country makes you potential victim? That no matter what you believe, think or do you are percieved by some as enemy - in this case (and it is a notable one for various reasons) - because you are Jewish or Israeli. 2 millenia of persecution, Holocaust, more than 100 years of Arab terror and still so many don't see, don't care...
Imagine that it was your wife who after years of trials became finally pregnant and you lost her to the terror attack practically a day after receiving these exciting news! Imagine it was your daughter/ son, brother or sister leaving for vacation, carefree, happy, saying "see you" not to be ever seen again...
Those things happen everywhere - we have accidents, fires, earthquakes, criminals and so on - no place is completly "safe" (whatever that means) - but it is different if you know that you are a pray because of your ethnic background, or religion or - as in this case - citizenship. For Israeli Jews it is ALL of the above. And quite often you will even be said you deserved it as the speaker doesn't like your country's policy (or doesn't know it but thinks he doesn't like it). It is horrible!
Think about victims, their families, pray for them. I feel deeply compassionate and emphatic and very, very sad about it being the world - yes, my world too - where these kind of things happen and are not even unanimously condemned!
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