Goldberg, Doran

Professor Encinias
CAS 115
October 14, 2023

The Call to Arms

A week ago today, Hamas launched their attack against Israel. All I can say is, things
around the world are messed up. Anti Semitism has skyrocketed and it's clear as day. Almost all
of my friends in the IDF reserves have been called back. I have two friends who were lone
soldiers. One of them was a paratrooper commander and the other one was a machine gunner for
a special reconnaissance unit. Both of them posted a picture of their passports and berets and
announced they were going back over to fight.
Earlier this morning I went on to the Garim Tzabar website, a lone soldier program, to
see if I could go in as early as December, but I still won’t be going in until August. I have some
people I can only guess I won’t hear from again which is hard to wrap my head around. I’m
constantly pissed off everytime I see or hear a new statistic about the amount of Israelis held
hostage or killed. I have no hate for the innocent civilians of Gaza, but at this point, I think every
Hammas fighter deserves to be slaughtered like the animals they are, because even animals don’t
do things so barbaric. People talk about carpet bombing and turning Gaza into a parking lot and I
don’t really agree with that because that hurts to many civilians. It’s hard to have conversations
without people getting “heated,” or upset.
I have been experiencing a lot of survivor's guilt too. I could have been there right now if
I didn’t come to college. At this point, I wish I was over there. I wish I could make a real
difference rather than just being active on social media, but life is not a straight path and I have
to live with that.