Tonight is my good buddy Moshe Teitz birthday, so I think we're planning on celebrating tonight. I just done with a swim lesson and I'm reasonably exhausted. Last night we played in our flag football league and then we stayed up very late talking with my old camp friends who were visiting. We also watched flag football videos from when Avi and Benny won the world championship. The flag football game was extremely fun actually. We only had seven people so I finally got to play defense and develop a rhythm with the receivers. Since I never play defense and I play quarterback, I never get to run the ball. Early in the game I intercepted it and took it 3 quarters length of the field for a touchdown. I stopped in the middle of the play because I heard a whistle from the either field. I did a stutter step and the guy pursuing me fell, and then I ran it in. Everyone contributed and had lots of fun which was great. We had Tania Grunberg, Benny's girlfriend taking pictures and videos on the sideline, so hopefully I'll get some pictures uploaded.

I called my mother this morning ( a little too early, sorry mom) and we spoke about my last blog post. After re-reading it, I'm aware that I was pretty emotional when I wrote it. I delivered some messages I intended, others I left out. Something my mom brought up was that although the negative perception is what's bothering me , that ultimately plays a factor in how you assess their actions. Israel is being pretty relentless in their attacks, and it surely doesn't help their global image. Where we differed on the matter was she believes peace is an option. I argued that Hamas isn't interested in peace, while Israel most surely is. Israel is worried about Israel; if peace is what's best, that's what they want.

The important message I left out in my last post is I don't fully support what Israel is doing. It's hard to predict which course of action is best, especially when I live here.