An interview with an Israeli-American in Tel Aviv working to make sense of events and remain positive and constructive.
The toll of human suffering from the recent outbreak of hostilities in the Middle East is untold and universally tragic, forcing us to accept, or at least acknowledge, the unacceptable.notwithstanding, civilians have been caught up in violence and vengeance, and the line between combatants and non-combatants has blurred. Conflict activates past trauma on all sides, trauma tat serves only to escalate violence and polarization on all sides.
The extreme sadness of October 7 is retriggered by the circulating images of the brutalities and memorials. For example, when the bodies of the five-member Kutz family—shot while huddling in their home—were found this week, I cried, and then I put my emotions aside in order to focus on matters at hand.
Our young children share nightmares about the missile-alert sirens and terrorists invading our apartment. Both of them have had outbursts from the accumulated. All in all, however, we are all managing. We feel very lucky that we have been safe, spared in part from the atrocities we are witnessing.
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