General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

All good over here as far as good can be...Last night there were missiles coming over all night till 4 am towards Tel Aviv and south of it. I live half way between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv 30 km either way and few miles from the border to the west bank. I will try to explain its not the missiles its the siren - if you can imagine dead of night quiet - no cars - and all of a sudden the siren goes off and it is loud - its a very eerie sound - so you do 1 of 2 things you look out the window and you see the exhaust of the missile coming and then the anti-missiles defence fires and that's like a roar of a jet engine and the bang as it hits it. Or you go to your bomb shelter - one of my rooms is a bomb shelter - meaning I have meter concrete walls and steel plate sliding window and a sealed door - and you wait for the all clear and you come out. Now the biggest problem we are having over here - which may not be shown in the UK tv is that in parallel its turning into a mini civil war - you have some Israeli Arabs and Jewish chavs (mostly of Arab countries of descent) fighting on the streets in the evening in Lod, Jaffa, Acres and Tiberias - mixed towns - smashing windows of shops and businesses and burning cars and synagogues and fighting between each other. The border police have been sent in. We have never seen this before. This may be a big problem internally - the balance is so delicate on a regular day. I hope that explains a bit . Just one more thing - you must remember at this time we have Israeli elections and elections in the Palestinian Authority so the politicians on both sides are not helping the matter ...