in the passenger seat of a refrigerator van enroute to upstate New York
where i was catering a wedding in a tent, i noted that the pleasant weather had turned cold and rainy and lamented the fact that i had, just yesterday, come down with the flu..
sadly, i don't exactly have the kind of job you can call in sick for..
"um i'm so sorry i won't be there to cater your wedding...you see i have the flu.."
nope i've gone to work after surgery, with the flu, with every imaginable kind of ailment....not showing up is just not an option..
i even have a plan set forth where my chef and maitre d can carry on without me, should anything happen to me
when you're a wedding caterer, expecially in New York City
the name of the game is the show must go on..
so i sat there for the two hour drive into the mountains..
listening to the news on the radio..
and the announcer came on to tell me about the suicide bombing in israel
19 dead, 4 children, 55 people injured..
they were all enjoying a saturday afternoon meal in a restaurant owned and operated by israeli arabs..
just families..breaking the sabbath...in a non Jewish owned eatery..
having fun..enjoying the pleasant weather..
blown up by a suicide bomber
that it was a woman..somehow bothered me even more..
i don't know why, but there's this voice in my head that always think women should have more sense then men, not be so ruled by their egos and genitalia..
or is that the same thing..
but not this girl..no she was fully brainwashed by the Islamic Jihad and sent out to be a human bomb..
Oh the Islamic pricks took full responsibility fast enough..
sure they're proud...of this one..
a great score.. so many dead civilians and woo hooo children tooo
families blown up and blown apart, maimed destroyed
thats a real victory..
so now that what seemed to be a seriously strong peace effort
a path to really creating two nations
has been so severely crippled it may be permanently curtailed
i ask you
who is to blame?
the israelis who went to the peace table
time and time again
begging for an end to violence
or the Palestinian terrorists
who rewarded any vulnerability
any pull back of troops
any slight lessening of the guard
with murder
and destruction
i don't know what was more sad to me
thinking of those innocent lives taken and ruined
or that the news felt the bombing was the smaller story
compared to Roy of Seigfried and Roy getting attacked by one of his white tigers
not that isn't an interesting story mind you
one always wonders why 30 years later one of those tigers would act out
but honey
it certainly should not be the big story
next to
19 deaths
and 55 injured..
but i guess america
and other parts of the world
have become numb to the pain and suffering of israel
oh that's not news
they kill civilians over there every day..
what happened to roy??
and i even felt a sick part of my own heart
not jump the way it used to jump
not startle the way it used to startle
the part of my own heart
that just sighed and said
here we go again..
no
no
no
there is nothing dull about this
nothing to be glossed over
or pushed back to the back pages
we are watching right in front of us
the blatant murder
of innocent civilians
we are watching
a democracy who has always asked for peace
and survival
be rewarded by militants
who do not want peace
who regard peace as traitorism
who will only stop when they have taken all the land of israel
and murdered every jew in israel
and if that terrible day
should ever come...i hope to god i am dead
and don't see it
because that will be the day that surely
everything good and decent on this earth
is burnt and ruined
and that will be the day that these same
militant
love-less
bastards
turn their sights on you
you being any person..
who has watched this
and said
well they're not after me
so its not my problem
when murder happens in your front yard
even if your front yard is across an ocean or two
its always your problem
here we are
on the eve of Yom Kippur
the holiest day of the jewish religion
a day of fasting
a day of atonement
a day of repenting
a day of asking for forgiveness
a day of praying for a better future
and of letting go of the parts of the past
that need to be left behind
and it is on this holy holiday
that countless families in israel
will mourn their dead
will mourn their burns
and their missing limbs
will mourn their ruined lives
and will look up to the sky
and wonder
why
why why
i don't know why
but i know
this has to stop
and i know too
that every bit of compassion
that can be mustered up for the palestinian people
is being devoured and destroyed by their own
by the terrorists in their midst
so i say to them
as i have said in the past
do you really want peace?
do you really want a future for you and your family?
then rise up and stamp out the murderers amongst you
because it is you
it is you
in the end that they are murdering..
in the meanwhile
i will shed no tears for the palestinian cause
i'm too busy shedding tears for the children they have just blown up
