A Personal Note to All in the United States
by Kesam Katz

When I opened my email this morning, a friend from the States asked me how we live with the almost daily deaths caused by Muslim inspired terrorism. As she put it, give us some words of wisdom.  I am not sure I have any wisdom in this area, all I have are incredible amounts of sadness and lots and lots of tears. 

After the second bomb went off here in Israel on Sunday I felt like screaming to the heavens "Enough, it is enough!" Of course, I did not do so, as this is not the work of God, but the work of very demented and evil human beings who are supported by other evil people--people, who, like the Palestinians here in Israel, spilled out into the streets dancing and singing and giving out candy to celebrate. 

While, to us here in Israel, this celebration of death is all too familiar, it never fails to  inspire my personal anger and the anger of all Israelis.    How do we live with the constant terrorism, the constant deaths, the constant funerals, the ever-flowing tears--we just put one foot in front of the other, we swallow it, pray on it, and then get up and go to work and send our children to school. 

We handle it this way because we really have no choice, and now, unfortunately you have no choice either. One friend from the States wrote me that life in the U.S. would be changed forever, and she is right. Your lives will be changed forever, just as ours have been.

But to give up or to be swallowed with despair is to give further victory to the human evil that killed and wounded 1000's in the United States. In the end, this is why, we, here in Israel ,carry on our daily lives as best we can--to do otherwise would give the terrorists their greatest victory, and this we cannot do.

So, while I have no words of wisdom to give you, I do want to encourage you to carry on your life today and in the days to come as normally as is possible despite your hearts and souls being filled with grief and fear. Do not give this evil a further victory!!

I will end by telling you that today has been declared a day of mourning here in Israel, and, indeed, we are mourning with you. The IDF is flying to the U.S. to help find and evacuate victims and we, here in Israel are collecting blood to send to the U.S.  

Our hearts and prayers are with you as we carry on our daily lives, as you, too, must now do--the pain and the fear never really goes away, but that must not stop us from living our lives, for to live life fully is victory of good over evil.  

Shalom, 

Kesam Katz

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Thank you for sharing this with us Kesam, God bless!!