Shelter Fatigue

The Rolling Stones song, Gimme Shelter, says it all, ironically

We just got out of the miklat, that bomb shelter I've been writing about, and our friend Josh mentioned he's tired of this. 

I said, You have shelter fatigue. It's a new term I'm using on my blog. Anyway, he reminds FD of The Rolling Stones song, Gimme Shelter from way back when. 

Shelter fatigue, the syndrome our friend Josh is suffering lately, in and of itself is not new. But it is relatively new in Israel where our wars, and we have had many, tend to be over relatively quickly. Israel has been under attack before. This one is going on a little long.

In our day, Josh goes on, there were no big screens, no pyrotechnics.

Did you see Tommy? I ask. It feels like there might have been pyrotechnics but who can remember? 

On that terrible pun let us give honor to Mick Jagger. Because according to Josh and his wife who are here with us under shelter to tell the story, Mick performed in 100 degree heat in Israel without complaint. 

So. Maybe we are a bit tired of our miklatim, our macadam, our shelters, maybe we even have shelter fatigue.  But there isn't an Israeli in the country who isn't glad to have one nearby. 

Because war, children, is just a shot away, as Congress told Donald Trump before he took it upon himself to do something about the one nobody wants to name.

To an end to all of them,

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