One Day, You Realize You are Part of History
In Tel Aviv last week, among 200,000 people
Since I write my books in English and publish them on Amazon, not many people know that I’m not American and don’t live in the US. I live in Israel, that tiny state in the Middle East full of internal conflicts and surrounded by enemies. Thee are only ten million people on this little strip of land, but sometimes we feel like we take up the biggest portion of the world’s news headlines.
And me? As a person who lives here, I describe myself as a man of contradictions. As a younger man, I served as an officer in the Armored Corps, but I believe in peace and hope that a Palestinian state will be established one day. And although I love being Israeli, I have been opposed to this government’s activities for many years.
As an author of historical fiction, I spend most of my time learning historical facts and writing. I’ve currently also started writing my next book, but I’ll discuss that more in my next newsletter. Today I want to write about my feeling as a person who realizes he’s living in a time that will be written about in history books someday.
Four months ago a new government was established here, and from day one they started promoting laws that, if passed, will turn our Israel into a dictatorship. At first all the people around me wanted to give up, myself included. What’s the point of going out and demonstrating against the power of the government? What power do we simple people have?
But then more and more people started going out into the streets and protesting, and I didn’t want to give up anymore. I decided to join the fight for democracy. First I went to the demonstrations in Haifa, my hometown, and later I started attending the huge demonstrations in Tel Aviv. Hundreds of thousands of people march week after week, waving flags and protesting against the laws of dictatorship.
I don’t know if we’ll be able to stop those laws, I don’t know if we’ll win, and I don’t know what will happen in the future. But I know I don’t want to give up anymore, and I intend to continue fighting the dictatorship as much as possible.
I also believe that we, the demonstrators, will write the history to come.
Last month in Haifa, my hometown
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