A kassam costs 200-300 shekel to put together, about $75 max. Our iron dome system costs thirty million or so. and the Iron Dome doesn’t stop the kassam. The magic wand program will have to be finished soon and that will stop the smaller rockets. It’s cheap to kill and expensive to protect. But we really have to spend the money. The barrage of rockets this morning may not have killed anyone, but makes life impossible for anyone in range. And of course, makes it necessary to retaliate instead of concentrating on bulding relations. Terrible.
I called Naim Araidi today to tell him that even without an invitation I want to come to Mrar for the festival. Of course, he issued an invitation on the spot. How cheeky of me, how uncharacteristic! But I didn’t want to plan to go to Italy and then find out that the Nissan Festival was on the same date. I missed it last year and I missed it, and for some reason it is very important for me to be there. There is a hope I feel there that I never feel elsewhere, even though the level of the poetry is not at all higher. So Naim told me to save April 2-5, and I will. You come too.
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