When I first heard about Hawaii’s false ballistic missile threat, sent on January 13, and the reaction to it among the natives who thought they were in danger, it engendered genuine sadness, because here in Israel, we live under the threat of real rocket attacks every day, as I know all too well, and those attacks that have been launched against us have been largely ignored by the rest of the world.
For Americans, the threat of a ballistic missile is far from a daily reality or concern. So when Hawaiians received a false warning that a nuclear rocket attack was imminent, residents panicked, with parents reportedly hiding their children in the sewer, students at the University of Hawaii running into marked fallout shelters, only to find them locked, and motorists parking in highway tunnels.
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