I still cannot believe all this is happening. OK, I do, but not yet 100 percent. I suppose people in Beirut, Sarajevo and perhaps Vietnam, for that matter, felt the same way. NATO's war against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's campaign against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo has placed Yugoslavia's 3,000 Jews, most of whom live in Belgrade, in much the same crisis as that faced by their fellow citizens. Yugoslavia's Jews are well integrated into mainstream society, and they share the same concerns, frustrations and fears experienced by their fellow citizens as they try to carry on their daily lives.
Food is still sufficient, so is water and electric power.
Once that becomes scarce, we shall be in trouble. In the suburbs, the situation is worse. The rockets fall even on civilians, and some of our friends spend all the time in the bunkers. The NATO attack has triggered shock, surprise and anger, as well as dismay and disruption. It also triggered a sense of common fate against an outside enemy.