I am going to Israel anyway …

(JNS) — As the father of a terror victim, as a Zionist and as an Israeli citizen, I quake with the report of every missile strike or terror attack against the Jewish state.

That is not a figure of speech. It is not political theater. It is the involuntary reaction of someone who knows what a phone call can mean, what a headline can hide, and how quickly an ordinary day can become the day that divides a family’s life into before and after.

The targets are always civilians.

They are people going about their lives, trying to make a shekel, waiting for a bus, walking along a street, taking a child...