Bring him home...
Somewhere - I imagine a dirt-floored room in a sprawling mud-built refugee camp in Gaza - a 20 year old Israeli soldier/boy is being held by Palestinian militants. He was captured/kidnapped and dragged back across the border with the Gaza strip after his unit was attacked by militants, who had burrowed a tunnel under the boarder. Two of his unit were killed - 1 is in a serious condition in Hospital, and he is missing.
The Israeli army has re-entered Gaza, cut power, bombed bridges, and is prepared to show an amazing amount of force in order to get him back.
It is the worst possible thing to take place at this time. Peace, ever an artisan of disguise has flitted before us and again vanishes in the shadows.
Somewhere - in Ramallah, by all accounts - a second Israeli boy is being held by militants. Kidnapped also. He looks like a sweet kid. A round, smiling face, like so many other Israeli kids growing up in the rural centers.
In Nazareth, a man shot his 4 year old son, and then turned the gun on himself in the garden of the hotel he worked at. The man's name was Sharon Cohen, and he was 33 years old. The name of the son was absent from the report in Ha'Aretz, which made me even sadder.
Katzav and Yoffie are sparing with each other in a manner which I am just not sure I like. But I don't think I have seen Ha'Aretz so filled with reporting about Reform Judaism. There is a lot of interesting commentary on Israeli society, and it's relationship to religion - and to non-Orthodox Judaism in particular.
The boy is Gaza is named Gilad Shalit.
The boy in Ramallah is named Eliyahu Asheri.
Pray for them - pray for them all.
The Israeli army has re-entered Gaza, cut power, bombed bridges, and is prepared to show an amazing amount of force in order to get him back.
It is the worst possible thing to take place at this time. Peace, ever an artisan of disguise has flitted before us and again vanishes in the shadows.
Somewhere - in Ramallah, by all accounts - a second Israeli boy is being held by militants. Kidnapped also. He looks like a sweet kid. A round, smiling face, like so many other Israeli kids growing up in the rural centers.
In Nazareth, a man shot his 4 year old son, and then turned the gun on himself in the garden of the hotel he worked at. The man's name was Sharon Cohen, and he was 33 years old. The name of the son was absent from the report in Ha'Aretz, which made me even sadder.
Katzav and Yoffie are sparing with each other in a manner which I am just not sure I like. But I don't think I have seen Ha'Aretz so filled with reporting about Reform Judaism. There is a lot of interesting commentary on Israeli society, and it's relationship to religion - and to non-Orthodox Judaism in particular.
The boy is Gaza is named Gilad Shalit.
The boy in Ramallah is named Eliyahu Asheri.
Pray for them - pray for them all.
posted by simpletruths at 15:51
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