(from an e-mail I sent to a friend in the States)
Thanks for your kind words. Close friends of mine live in Haifa and this is a heartbreaking weekend. They are one neighborhood removed from the front line, and the feeling is that of insecurity and lack of shelter, in addtion to the country-wide grief for loss of life and nature. Many Israelis are also concerned as they come to terms with the broader causes of this crisis -- they now feel the effect of the blatant misconduct of the civil service, and of the age long disregard for the basic infrastructure of this country; these not just bear on our quality of life here, but literally condemn people to death.
We are ten-fold understaffed in fire fighters as compared to western standards, but this is a mere example of a paradigmatic failure of every aspect of government responsibility for life, liberty and property. It begins with zero intervention in over-centric markets for goods and services, allowing stockholders and consumers to be exploited and treated unfairly, and ends with the inadequate protection of human lives everywhere from hospitals, through fire and to the Gaza-area towns.
Both secretly and overtly, Israelis wish this to fire to be traced to the work of Arab arsonists. This will allow us to frame the events as one of the tragedies that come with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For too long we have forgotten that, as our government does not meet its responsibilities, the damage to Israelis is far worse than whatever course of action the Palestinians have taken.
With hope for a better week.
Thanks for your kind words. Close friends of mine live in Haifa and this is a heartbreaking weekend. They are one neighborhood removed from the front line, and the feeling is that of insecurity and lack of shelter, in addtion to the country-wide grief for loss of life and nature. Many Israelis are also concerned as they come to terms with the broader causes of this crisis -- they now feel the effect of the blatant misconduct of the civil service, and of the age long disregard for the basic infrastructure of this country; these not just bear on our quality of life here, but literally condemn people to death.
We are ten-fold understaffed in fire fighters as compared to western standards, but this is a mere example of a paradigmatic failure of every aspect of government responsibility for life, liberty and property. It begins with zero intervention in over-centric markets for goods and services, allowing stockholders and consumers to be exploited and treated unfairly, and ends with the inadequate protection of human lives everywhere from hospitals, through fire and to the Gaza-area towns.
Both secretly and overtly, Israelis wish this to fire to be traced to the work of Arab arsonists. This will allow us to frame the events as one of the tragedies that come with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For too long we have forgotten that, as our government does not meet its responsibilities, the damage to Israelis is far worse than whatever course of action the Palestinians have taken.
With hope for a better week.
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