Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl" plays as you drive south out of Tel Aviv in a heavy rain. It's incongruous with what you are driving toward, a visit with the family of Ahmad Abu Latif, the Bedouin soldier killed, along with 20 other members of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), when the buildings on the Gaza border his company was preparing for controlled demolition were hit by RPG missiles.
Some Israelis have criticized the IDF for putting so many soldiers in one small location, essentially making them sitting ducks. You do not think any possible strategic failure behind Ahmad's death, at age 26, will matter to his mother. You also have no idea what gift to bring her.
