The trip from Gaza to Israel may be accomplished in the mind of the traveller. The vehicles needed to go from one place to the other exist in the mind. Some of the vehicles may be simple and others complex, some speedy and some slow, some require sweat as fuel and others require knowledge. Stations along the way may describe illness to health, or poverty to wealth, ignorance to education, isolation to involvement, intolerance to acceptance. The traveller may bounce over rutted roads or fly through smooth air, encounter primitive communities or sophisticated metropolises. Fellow travelers may share their languages, thoughts, foods, and fears. The journey may last moments or years, from childhood to old age, or for as long as a bullet takes to reach its target.
The only prediction that can reasonably be made is that the journey cannot be foretold. Whatever will be, will be.
And the only choice for the traveler is whether or not to make the trip. As with a bullet, it goes only once and only one way.
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