Inventing indifference
“What has happened to us?” Asks Anat Maidan in today’s Yediot Aharonot newspaper. And then goes on to protest life going on as usual. People have become apathetic, obtuse to the death and to the suffering, she claims. She wonders why they didn’t even put sad songs on the radio. I don’t know which channel she’s been listening to, but I don’t think she’s caught the mood at all. Maybe she’s describing her own state of mind. I object to her claim that people here have become indifferent.

People may have adopted a fatalistic way of thinking, and that’s OK. I think that’s a good way of dealing with the uncertainty. After all, statistically, Israelis are still more likely to die in traffic accidents.

There was a heavy feeling in the street this morning, when people woke up to the news of a fifth murderous attack, last night, that killed two young parents and badly wounded their three year old son, while they drove to their home in the West Bank.

So good for you, Anat Meidan! You’re column was on the front-page of the most widely read newspaper in Israel the day after a pigua. But it apparently doesn’t mean you had anything worthwhile to say.