Thou shall not always expect the worst

I think last Sunday I experienced a brief moment where I noticed how I have lost my innocence - towards Israel. At breakfast table, I was glancing through a Finnish newspaper and noticed in the travel section an article on Eilat with a huge headline exclaiming:

Two weeks, one moment of fear

F**k, I thought to myself. Whereas I try to advocate the positive sides and attributes that Israel has, this woman goes and ruins the reputation of a nice country by writing some article on her terror moments when vacationing in Eilat for two weeks with her husband and three kids. What had happened to them? What went wrong? I almost didn't want to keep reading, as I myself had a very pleasant vacation in Eilat as I wrote earlier. At minimum, I was expecting rockets, suicide bombs, inappropriate treatment at the airport and what not.

So what frightened this family while in Eilat? [Insert drum roll].... They were on the beach one day. The youngest child of the family skipped the parents' watchful eye for a nanosecond and crawled to the other tourist family next to them. This was it. Sure, every parent's worst nightmare is to not to know for a brief moment where your child is, but to title a newspaper article - on Israel - after it... Do you find it provoking?

For the record, the family had a great time in Eilat and enjoyed their visit a lot - except they were disappointed with the Biblical theme park called King's City.