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Israeli Resilience: Dodging Missiles on Sunday, Dancing in the Streets on Thursday
(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - Last Sunday, hundreds of rockets pounded Ashdod and Ashkelon and Sderot and Nir Am. Four of our countrymen were killed by indiscriminate rocket fire. Last Sunday, residents of communities around Gaza were worried about whether they would be able to shepherd their children into bomb shelters in under 20 seconds. Three days later on Independence day, the country's mood was light and carefree. The ability to shift from a near war footing one day to a country that feels softly at ease the next is one of the secrets of Israel's success. It is the ability to move on and not be paralyzed by fear or grief or pain or a sense of victimhood. It's called resilience. Thursday's picnics in the forests, the parties on the beaches, the thanksgiving prayers in the synagogues and the visits to army installations, all those routine acts we perform on Independence Day, took on a bit more meaning this year, coming - as they did - just days after the most recent attempt by our enemies to shut down the Zionist enterprise.