The Land of Guns and Slaughter

[eumelia]

This country is in the shits.
With a President (a.k.a useless figure head), sexually harassing women his office.
Not one, not two, but three kidnapped soldiers (one in Gaza and two in Lebanon) and the army trying to be humane and not really succeeding.
With the "International Community" on Israel's back and Israel either needing to take drastic measures I'd rather not think about or basically giving in...

I must say that on a purely selfish way it's kinda nice to feel alive again, except that with that feeling comes the anxiety of having to live a normal life in a place where I'm constantly bombarded with the violence of our daily lives.

So I've returned from a country where I was basically numb, to a county I don't know whether to mourn, rage or sympathize with.

While the occupation we have over the Palestinians is the root of the conflict and apartheid in Israel (it is also the cause the total inequality we have in all facets of life here), I can't see anything righteous about kidnapping soldiers and using them as political hostages.
I don't want to hate another nation, especially a nation so closely related to mine, I don't even want to think in those terms.

I hope all this is resolved with as little death as possible, but living in this militaristic society, violence is inevitable.
Bloodshed on both sides is inevitable.

I guess it's not much the Land of Milk and Honey and more the Land of of Guns and Slaughter.
Damn it.
Gotta learn not to cry all the time, bad for my efforts to not take things so hard.