Plowing ahead in wartime<\/p>\n
Israel. <\/a>Born 1948. Water then \u2014 rationed. Food stamps issued for meals. To honor a new incoming VIP, an Arab chieftain in the Negev gave his visitor the eye of a sheep.<\/p>\n This, word for word, is from life there now. My reporting was just told by a Jerusalem family to their relatives who live here. They then told it, word for word, to me.<\/p>\n \u201cWe run from our homes to take shelter from bombs raining down<\/a> around us, many times, often eight times in one night. Time doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n \u201cOfficial safe rooms have been specially created. Thick concrete walls. Sealed in, together with steel shutters and windows reinforced. These basement safe rooms are now in all, every one, of the newer buildings. Old buildings have been redone, and certain areas are reinforced to code.<\/p>\n \u201cEach safe room is equipped with food, water, beds, chairs. We\u2019re to stay there maybe two hours, sometimes all night. Ones in homes have toys, food, books.<\/p>\n \u201cSteel windows. Concrete walls. Even if you don\u2019t know of direct hits, you can hear shrapnel. Actually see a nearby bridge collapse.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen\u00a0a missile is incoming<\/a>, the government knows. There\u2019s a phone alert. Sirens go off. You immediately go again .\u2009.\u2009. yet again .\u2009.\u2009. to your safe room or shelter. Eventually comes the all-clear.<\/p>\n \u201cLast time it was 30 yards from our holy mosque, the third holiest site in Israel.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd it\u2019s not too many flights into or out of Israel. Was 12, now, maybe three. Leaving Israel<\/a> they can carry only 50 people onboard.<\/p>\n \u201cSomehow we will all get through. We\u2019ll move on. No choice. It is all we can do.\u201d<\/p>\n As one Israeli put it: \u201cListen, in California, on a good night, 20 people get killed.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Shen Yun\u2019s stuff\u00a0of\u00a0legend<\/p>\n