Conversation this week at my cousin's surprise birthday party was sobering. Did you know that there's a betting site that says there's an 82 percent likelihood that the U.S. will strike Iran today or tomorrow? Perhaps it's greater by now as another day passed and nothing happened. Maybe it's less because Trump announced that the Islamic Republic has halted executions and killings. How nice. How naïve. How dangerous to give a moment of credence to anything coming out of the Islamic regime or their agents and apologists overseas! How silly to think that with an entire country of 90 million people cut off from the internet, what the Islamists are saying is nothing more than the tried and tested Islamic practice of taqiyya – lying to infidels. But I digress.

Did you know that as a result of the odds of a U.S. strike and other rumors, the entire Lufthansa group, consisting of five airlines, has cancelled flights TO ISRAEL. How abnormal is that?! The U.S. may hit the Islamic Republic of Iran, and airlines cancel flights to Israel because the subtext is that the Islamic Republic will fire everything it has AT ISRAEL.

This is obscene. This is our norm.

Someone I know well has begun carrying extra sets of contact lenses in case she ends up in a bomb shelter. We are looking over our shoulders when out now, just to know where the nearest bomb shelter is, just in case.

Last night (and perhaps for the foreseeable future again), we slept with the lights on above our stairs in case we had........

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