This will not be a long read. Instead, I want to share the story of one family in an under-five-minute video I made.
On Wednesday, October 7th, I will be volunteering at the site where the Nova Music Festival occurred.
It is the site where hundreds of young people went to dance and celebrate peace, and where 376 were brutally slaughtered either at the festival, during their attempts to escape, or where they were hunted - hiding anywhere they could find.
Because just like in the early days when your grandparents came here from all over and built these communities that bring you so much pride - that is us, now. The world is squeezing us out - we felt it out there - the hatred of us and the hatred of you and the hatred of this tiny but incredible little country, the land of which is taking the impact of ballistic missiles - and we came - and we are staying.