Dear Ones,
Where were you when Condi's motorcade drove from the airport to Olmert's house? Why didn't you line the streets and throw rotten eggs at her limo? Why don't you have spray-painted sheets hanging from your balconies, telling her to go home, telling Olmert to step down?
Don't email me that you're so upset, so shocked, so outraged that your country is giving up the checkpoints that protect you, when all you do is sit at your keyboard. That's what I do because I can't do anything else from the other side of the world. Granted, I'm not there and maybe I shouldn't be saying all this because I'm not there, BUT HELP ME OUT HERE. I have nothing to support, nothing to point to.
How can I convince anyone that Jews will never give up "east" Jerusalem when you appear so complacent? How can I convince anyone that you are outraged at the constant attacks on Sderot, at the murders of our yeshiva boys, at anything at all - when you don't get off your duffs and go outside to at least thumb your noses at Condi? I don't need to tell you, this is her 14th trip to your country to demand more and more concessions from you and to receive more and more false promises from Abu Mazen.
Please, I beg you, stand in front of Olmert's house with a homemade sign that says the peace they're processing is the peace of the grave, that you WANT checkpoints to protect you, that you don't want to live next door to a Palestinian terror state.
Don't just write a blog post, make a sign that says America is betraying Israel and flaunt it in front of the American cameras there for the "grips and grins."
If you would just DO something, THEN I would have something to point to. THEN Olmert and Livni would have something to point to. They could tell Condoleezza Rice,
"Geez, we'd like to help, but as you can see, the people are outraged; there is no popular support for these concessions you want from us."
What is wrong with you people? You grieve and you go on. What's the world to think? They don't get your emails, they don't read your blog posts, they don't know that any of this bothers you at all.
You are silent, you are invisible.
If you're going to go down, must you go this quietly? Please don't sit in your apartment and wait for the Iranian nukes. Get rid of Olmert, get in front of the cameras. Do Something. Give me something to point to, something to support. (They can't arrest everybody, can they?)
And of course - {sigh} - tell me if I'm out of line.
with love for you and for Israel from the other side of the world,
I remain, at your service,
Yael.
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