generationS of Palestinians must also be shocked and awed - rich

how the palestinians feel when they are living in a war from the day they are born until they leave the earth .

What those children go through now is only the beginning. Not having been warned of impending air raids, listening for the whistle of bombs and seeing the fiery streaks of artillery slicing through the night sky for 63 years, I still get that sudden thud in the pit of my stomach whenever I hear the sound of a particular type of siren. Although I know it's "only" a tornado warning, and I know that there's no war, the memory seems to hit my stomach faster than I can connect the logical explanation from my head to that stomach. To whatever extent that's an improvement, at least, I stopped hoarding canned goods, dried beans, and bags of sugar and flour, when it was pointed out that the stuff in the cans hadn't been edible for years; that the sugar had virtually turned into lumps of concrete and that the flour and beans were eaten up with bugs. I still haven't quite weaned myself of my mother's habit of wrapping important papers in leather and stashing those under a blanket into a canvas bag, always handy in a closet by the door, just in case.... Although my papers are in fireproof safes and there's no blanket, they're still in a closet by the door and those "safes" are of a size that can be easily picked up and taken along, just in case..... After all, hadn't our mother brought us out of that war alive, and hadn't she always grabbed and never been without those important papers? I can sit here and tell myself all day long that survival has nothing to do with important papers, canvas bags, or little safes, and I understand and believe all of it.....until that siren goes off. That's when I grab those little safes, throw them into my car and, contrary to the most basic of safety instructions to go to a basement or safe room, head for the underground parking deck of a local hospital, just in case.... There are things one’s mind simply refuses to dismiss and forget and sounds connected to destruction and threats to one's life by mortars, Qassams and Katyushas, no less than by run of the mill bombs fall into the same category and I feel for all children who have to deal with that sort of thing for their entire lives through no fault of their own, but because adults are hell-bent on killing each other for one reason or the other.

are one family.

post traumatic stress disorder without erasing the memory. A three times daily 10 mg adult dose for ten days is what was used in the research studies. A child's dose for children over six is about a half the adult dose, so breaking a 10 mg tablet in half for the dose would be a child's dose. That helped me overcome stressful feelings from traumatic events; but every few months, I would need to repeat the ten day dose until I asked my prescriber if I could take it once daily as a continuous medication. He said, okay. That does help me. Propranolol is called a beta-blocker and is used for heart rhythm problems, migraines, benign tremors, etc. A study should be done on the children traumatized by the Second Lebanon War to see if that helps. Soldiers should also consider that for PTSD.

the underground parking deck of a local hospital is safer than the basement of a house. The screams of people in their basements who could not get out and no one tried to dig them out in WWII Germany is one reason. The screams for days or a week or so until silence came and the people who did not try to dig the people in basements out, knew death had come for them. It would be very haunting and lifelong in its traumatic effect. You might want to try taking a low dose (10 mg daily) of Propranolol (Inderal) which is helpful for erasing the trauma of traumatic events but not the memory.

Mr. Olmert does not want to fight a war with Gaza. He got burned, that's why. General Sharon was burned in a war with Lebanon, too; so he did not fight another war there when he was Prime Minister before he became disabled. If people want their Prime Ministers to fight necessary wars, they have to understand there are casualties and traumas and that is part of war.

World War II Germany because the German people thought it was beneath them to dig people out of basements where they were trapped unless people dug them out. The Jewish slaves had been killed off, so who was going to do the digging for the Germans? People who were there tell me the Germans let Germans die who were screaming in basements they were trapped in. Now the Germans have the Turks to do their scut work. But they don't like the Turks, either; so giving German citizenship to get the Jewish labor back sounds like a good idea.

the Jewish/Hebrew people has been after the worst persecutions. The Lord delivered them out of Egypt after 400 years of persecutions. The Lord delivered them in Persia in the time of Esther. The Lord delivered them and gave them their NATION back after the Nazi holocaust. Many Jewish atheists do not believe in God because of the Holocaust, but that is the very reason they should believe in God since that greatest of all persecution to that time resulted in a deliverance more profound than Moses leading the Hebrews out of Egypt. It took Moses forty years in the wilderness to turn four million former slaves into a mighty army to take the land given to their Patriarchs by God. It took the Jews a far shorter time to turn themselves into a mighty army that defended and maintained the Nation God had given back to them after two thousand years. They did not have forty years to learn how to defeat the Arab enemies of the House of Esau and Ishmael. So these young soldiers who as children learned the terrors of war in 2006 are not going to let a little Post Traumatic Stress Disorder hinder them in life. There is no turning back to the past of timid surrender to death to avoid fighting for what God wants them to have. If God wants them to have a nation, why do they have to fight? Because the devil is a fearsome foe who will use every devise to hinder God's plan for His people.

& how he WILL NOT take ANY action about the daily barrage of qassams being fired on Sderot. He acts as if it is not part of Israel. And it is our children who are suffering. So tell me what is there to understand? ALL of Israel is a causality of Olmert being our un-elected PM. He doesn't even hide his stupidity in not protecting us.

so vilified, he does not see the benefit of going through that again. Instead of attacking the Lebanese Hizbollah, the Israeli media and people attacked their Prime Minister. Why should he want to be blamed again for consequences of warfare? It is easier to be blamed for not going to war. Same with General Sharon. He was wrongly vilified in the First Lebanon War, so he was extremely reluctant to fight the Second one and Mr. Olmert had to do that with far less experience. Sharon was so vilified over Gaza after being vilified for not pulling Jews out of Gaza which cost lives of Jews and soldiers in protecting settlements in hostile areas, why should he want to be a target again of vilification instead of appreciation for a war with Hizbollah? Israel has the weapons and the might army, but its leaders have lost their will to use them according to Gerald Flurry's commentaries. Why? Because the leaders are rarely appreciated and almost always denigrated and they have lost the faith of their fathers in the promises of the Lord to Israel and the Jews.

if the 'occupation' is so 'brutal' why don't the palestinians do whatever it takes to get out of it, like take whatever chance for peace they can? why the unquestioning uncompromising unequivocal refusals? is it because the worship of the land and glorification of their death cult is worth prolonging it indefinitely? palestinian actions speak much louder than their empty words. i guess palestinian 'suffering' is not nearly as bad as they make it out to be, no?