The Engineer, Heshbon Nefesh

Sunday we celebrate Yom Kippur, the day of atonement. Life in Kever Benjamin has been quiet this year, no terrorism and the town full of Palestinian workers and shoppers. Autumn is here and cold wind refreshed the steaming buildings my home is surrounded by. My mother is sick, she may not survive to the next new year. Daughters are studying in different universities, and I am able to finance them. I have acquired a professional niche that is in much demand. My investments, after a strong drop, are mostly back again. I am healthy, no sign of any disease yet. God has let me live in quiet content this year.

I didnt like Netanyahu's speech in the UN General Assembly. He is my leader and he did the best it could be done. But it pains me that the spokesman of the Jewish State had to make the traditional Jewish appeals to the world's decency. He asked: Dont you have decency? We know that they dont. This appeal shows our weakness, instead of Jews putting the fear of God in the hearts of our vicious enemies, he talked about Jews frightened by that Persian fanatic. And that if he destroys us, he will go on to destroy others. A very bad argument, an argument from weakness. I didnt like what he said, that is not how the representative of the Jewish State should talk to the world. Netanyahu is a recognized public relations master, the best we have, but we Zionists should talk differently.