They left flags of Isis along with the decapitated bodies of our children. It was a message to us that they mean business – to slaughter all of us. And now some of them are being treated in our hospitals now.
I can understand why someone would join Isis – after all the flag says “There is no god but Allah and Mohammed is His prophet” which is the prayer of Islam. But they do not represent Islam. Islam does not slaughter babies.
isis flags in kibutzim Read Post »
imagine this – after decapitating a family, the terrorist goes through their pockets, steals their jewelry, money and credit cards for a shopping spree, grabs the play station for the kids, etc. etc. God send Elijah to Ahab and has him say:
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My mother managed through the wars by always looking forward. And when things were particularly difficult, don’t think at all about what happened, only if it helps you to understand what will happen. This always helps me in times of war.
So I will not dwell on decapitation of babies in the south, but the need to fortify the defences in the north. Thank goodness my invalid friend in the northern border has been moved to a safe place. She was saying she will die in her living room, the one with a piece of rocket from the gulf war on her sideboard, and I was tortured by that image.
One of my grandsons is volunteering to organize packages to soldiers in the south, one is a soldier, and my daughter is treating people for trauma. But I am doing little except writing, comforting friends, and following the news.
My blue-eyed cardiologist met me this morning because he’s going on reserve duty tomorrow, and although he really concentrated on my heart, I could see the concern in those beautiful eyes.
My mother always said you should keep the people who need to concentrate on defence full of love and power.
mother said – oct 11, 2023 Read Post »
If you write me to ask if i’m okay, and I answer, it means I’m okay at the moment. Any one here might not be okay a moment from now. Rockets are falling indiscriminately, there are still ISIS type guys wandering around the country, and as much as we try to keep things normal, there are dangers all around. So okay doesn’t mean much.
what does okay mean? 0ct 10, 2023 Read Post »
There are three new buildings being raised right around our co-op, primarily by workers who come in every day from the West Bank or Gaza. A few days ago I spoke to one of them in the little grocery store. Tall, shy, a teenager, he could speak only Arabic and comes over the border every day. From Gaza, he comes through the Erez crossing.
But I won’t be seeing him for a while. The crossing was destroyed yesterday when hundreds of nearby residents were slaughtered in their shelters.
The demonstrations were cancelled last night – most of the pilots, the soldiers, the navy, the doctors – were in the sites of the catastrophe, trying to clean up the remains of the slaughter, to treat survivors, to find some of the terrorists who may still be around.
I still haven’t been in touch with my friend from the northern border – her information about the explosions in the night from Hizballah would be more accurate than the news but her Parkinson’s make it impossible for her to use the morning for anything but getting herself ready for the day, and she has to focus.
Since I live in the middle of Tel Aviv, all we had to do was stay home and be ready to race the few flights down to the shelter when the sirens go off. So we were woken at six thiry in the morning and went up and down a few days. A whatsapp from an Arab neighbor asked whether it was safer to just stay in the stairwell, but we explained that the shelter was preferable. The rest of the day we spent glued to the television and on the phone to check on family. Then in the evening the bombs began again and we ran down and up and down and up.
We are chicken – a while ago we took a demanding tourist to the settlements on the Gaza border, but refused to get too close. She wanted to see Gaza, but we shivered and drove her back home. Now I am sure that more than a quarter of the residents in that pastoral moshav are gone.
Every single mother, every single baby, every single old lady in that moshav is in my mind now, as I get out of the clothes I slept in, and get ready for a new day.
oct 8, 2023 – morning Read Post »
Have you ever been to Kibbutz Be-eri for example? Did you ever see the other side with your naked eyes? Did you ever think these people would not want to slaughter you in your house? How could I be the only paranoid in the country?
So many deaths today, so far 22, such a change it will make in the lives of the survivors, and such a change it will make in the lives of the Gazans in the next few days.
Let’s pray for all the citizens. And lets pray for elections.
Hours later the number of victims is over 100, 800 wounded, 50 kidnapped and the mess is still on. Terrorists break into a house, kill the family, and wait for someone to come to looj for them. Sometimes wounded are unable to be rescued, sometimes still fighting to keep the door of their shelter shut.
don’t tell me you didn’t know – oct 7, 2023 Read Post »
At 6:22 a.m. I’m in the hallway in my nightgown, holding the dog who is going crazy from excitement. By 7 I’m dressed, fed, and waiting for rockets. Computer and pills are packed and waiting by the door.
Apparently we too are under attack, closed up at home. Bombs are falling around us, infiltrators are wandering around outside. …
I think I don’t have to worry about Bruno Mars tickets tonight.
Yesterday I visited Orit in a nice village in the Jerusalem Hills. Today I read about it the Times:
Well, at least about the place.
Yes, we visited the meditation dome, and went through the sleepy town, and loved it. But I didn’t get why Orit was so happy being there – until I scanned the article. Check it out.
Neve Shalom – Oct 6, 2023 Read Post »
