The night before my son became a soldier - and night after, in contrast to other mothers.

On Jan 22nd night, a day before my son drafted in an elite cyber unit, I watched him with emotion whether I should stop him from this dangerous path or whether I should encourage him to join the army, I even considered telling him to join a civilian job or go to university and graduate... Because I know my son will have to sleep night after night in the tunnel, on the wall and in other situations...<br><br>I was sad for two days because my son has to miss Shabbat with the family, a tradition we have been doing every week for 18 years. No... I gave him and his wife a kiss and wished him well on the front line, as I would with his wife on the day she graduated at the wedding, Shabbat will wait.<br><br>The night I should be proud of my son for the first time to become a soldier, I received the news of a civilian attack in Jerusalem, a terrorist who deliberately ran over a 3 year old girl, accidentally shot a civilian woman and killed her brother, and after that, 9 were killed in a terrorist attack, in front of my family, and in front of my other children, and because of this, my eldest daughter had to sleep with her children in our home, in fear of a house invasion. <br><br>I don't want to compare, but I want to explain, we are on two different sides, we on our side have a civilian population that wants peace and coexist, you on your side, has a civilian population that educates the youth to become human bombs, to operate terrorist cells in front of young women and children, to fire rockets at schools, to run over and stab children and young women, the same terrorists you on your side are praising and supporting, you know what I call that? terrorism and terror and terror state, the fact that you here on my side still believe you are the victims, even after this massacre is honestly a shame and a lie, I didn't ask you to join the IDF, but at least, for God's sake, do not support terrorists!<br><br>You are wrong, our sons are in front of you, on the wall, in the tunnel and on the border, we want peace and coexist... How much blood of your Palestinian brothers will be shed in this war before you can understand that?