Although this blog is about Israel, it would be wrong not to mention the disaster in Asia in which at least 19,000 people were killed over the weekend by a tsunami.
(Citing Foreign Ministry figures, Haaretz was reporting 542 Israelis still unaccounted for in southeast Asia as of Monday morning.)
As I was arguing with the old settler last night in Tel Aviv, mothers in Asia were identifying their dead children.
It kind of puts things in perspective, and unfortunately perspective is a commodity sorely lacking in Israel.
