How is the current conflict affecting you?

[TheGruffalochild]

This thread is intended to be a safe space to talk about how you are impacted by the current conflict. May be wishful thinking- but it isn’t supposed to be a place to take sides, place blame, or use inflammatory language. Nor is my intention to fill a thread with links to historical information and YouTube videos arguing either side.
Im just starting this thread because I’m feeling my mental health deteriorate from seeing and reading about so many scenes of violence on the news/social media. Of course all victims on both sides have suffered something unimaginable and I can’t even imagine how their pain compares to my discomfort. But I’d like to exchange on how every day people are affected and have a space for mumsnetters to support one another.
I know some have posted they’re waking in the night thinking about the events. I’m experiencing something similar - there is some broken scaffolding outside my home that rattles when it’s windy. The other night I initially woke with visions of someone firing at my house then realized it was just clanking bits of metal.

Please don’t take this the wrong way. I know how privileged I am to be safe in my home with all my loved ones around me. I know I could turn off the news - it will happen with or without me watching live updates. I’m so irrelevant in all of this. Yet at the same time I feel obliged not to look away from such massive and meaningless loss of life.

I'm not Jewish but my late husband was (culturally - he was atheist). I am planning to take down the mezuzah on our entrance doorway, it's never been an issue for me before but I worry we might be targeted. Similarly my daughter has her dad's (obviously Jewish) surname and for the first time I have been looking into changing it to mine. It's so sad it's come to this, I'm very scared and have nowhere to turn really as I'm not Jewish so don't have a Jewish support network or meaningful connection to the community, but equally it doesn't seem to have crossed the minds of my own friends and family that I might have reason to feel afraid, especially for my child.

This. The current situation is sad, but not at all surprising. We are very naive if we think it is new. The conflict in the Middle East goes back thousands of years, albeit that the weapons are more sophisticated these days.
I am not Jewish, but have always been both baffled and offended by anti-Semitism. I'm sure if I were either Jewish or Muslim, I might feel very differently about what's going on, of course. But we have to be realistic, and accept that this doesn't actually impact most of us in Europe. If people find it distressing, they just need to stop watching TV news and limit what they look at on social media. It is perfectly possible to remain informed from a combination of Radio 4 and "broadsheet" newspapers.

I'm not affected personally in any way but the state of this world absolutely has me in despair. I feel that world peace is hanging on a knife edge and sometimes I wish I hadn't had children because of the state of the world that they are going to be living in. Even if it remains peaceful, the cost of living is so bad for this generation of young adults. And then there's the totally inept and weak western leadership. Very worrying. I am so utterly grateful every day to have peace, my health and a roof over my head.

Thankyou truly wonderful you too