We have three providers of cellular communication (mobile phones) here. For the last week or so two of them are fighting pettily in my television. Every 20 minutes, one of them shows up and says, plainly and bluntly: "we are cheaper, the other company is lying!"  and right after that the other provider pops up and says exactly the same. Each uses a comic actor and the metaphor of stench, referring to the other provider. Today it struck me that the same way it doesn't really affect me since I'm registered with the third provider, that's the way I feel with the elections for Prime Minister this year.
Barak or Sharon? Cellcom or Motorola? neither!!
only problem with the elections is the lack of the third provider.

Many people from the left are going to vote with a blank ballot or not vote at all. Others say that if you do that you actually vote for Sharon, so it's actually a question of bad or worse.
As for me  deep down inside? I say: let Sharon win!
Hell, I even want it to be this way.

If after so many years of conflict and wars, so many people dead, after years of talking with our "enemy", hearing what they say, the majority still believes in the way of the strong general, the way of occupation, superiority, oppression, of punishing a whole population, then what we need is something bigger, more painful than anything we've had so far to really see our neighbors, to really feel them.

It's a process, I know. Few years ago, you were a traitor if you spoke with PLO, few months ago you were crazy to discuss Jerusalem. As time goes by standards shift, but we still need another shock treatment to reconsider the whole concept. To have a legitimate discussion about reshaping our existence here, going back in time and fixing, rewriting and recreating a better place for all citizens.

Meanwhile, with chilling anticipation, I keep dreaming of houses explode and burn, one after the other, all around me.

W A R.