No one was obliged to celebrate the New Year’s EveÉ Some did, some did notÉ Those who celebrated New Year’s Eve celebrated it with their own free will. Some of those did not celebrate because of what is going on in the Gaza Strip; some were "convinced" not to have any celebration because of the peer pressure provoked by zealots like the old tall fundamentalist writer who addressed in Kayseri that night an alternate celebration code-named "Conquest of the hearts;" some did not wish to spend their scarce resources on such a "foreign" celebrationÉ Some people are luckier in finding a reason to celebrate New Year’s Eve.