Sunday, August 28, 2005
Silence Broken
why haven't i written in so long?
it isn't because i didn't have anything to say, in fact i would say that i had too much on my mind, too many thoughts which would have come out in a complicated alphabet soup.
news today coming from beersheva suggests that an islamic jihad operative acted as a suicide bomber today, injuring people and if not for the heroic action of security guards both of whom have been injured badly that the bomber would have killed many. apparently a bus driver was able to confuse the bomber and told him a bus he was looking for was 'over there' and then the driver alerted the guards.
this is what we are faced with isn't it?
we have given back the gaza area and we are left to sit in our own filth once again while the palestinians misinterpret our actions and we wait to be attacked.
i have been warning for months now that soon after the gaza handback occurs we can expect an upsurge in terrorism and a new intifada. i would prefer not to be correct about any of this and we still have a way to go to make this nightmare reality, but i am afraid we are on the way.
how else are the palestinians going to react when they are being told that the reason that they have received gaza back was because of their armed struggle by their leaders?
if you were living in the west bank now as a palestinian wouldn't you feel just a bit more confident that your actions as a militant might eventually have a greater good for your nation of which you have dreamed about and been told to expect all of your life?
who on the palestinian side is going to stand up and say, no, now we have reached the point where we must give up our armed struggle and sit with the israelis to make peace?
the head of hamas was quoted on friday as saying that the destruction of israel is the goal of his organization.
thing is i could go own for a book lenght diatribe here but i will not. what we have just witnessed is an act by israel to get out of gaza, a place that it faced a losing proposition and one in which was going to always be a focal point for violence.....
and now we face the mob mentality and all of its ill wind.
i fully expect things to get worse before they get better here, i fully expect for missiles to be shot from west bank villages into israeli towns including my own - kfar saba.
thing is i want peace but as i was reminded last week, no body has ever lost money betting against peace in the middle east the past hundred years.
i was really hoping to turn this blog into something else other than a political/ war commentary........
i was hoping to have notes on architecture, music, books - and i still may get that chance.
i fear that there is a snake that is crawling towards the surface and that my family and i are once again the prey.
good luck to everyone and i hope i can meet you on the other side of the rainbow.
it isn't because i didn't have anything to say, in fact i would say that i had too much on my mind, too many thoughts which would have come out in a complicated alphabet soup.
news today coming from beersheva suggests that an islamic jihad operative acted as a suicide bomber today, injuring people and if not for the heroic action of security guards both of whom have been injured badly that the bomber would have killed many. apparently a bus driver was able to confuse the bomber and told him a bus he was looking for was 'over there' and then the driver alerted the guards.
this is what we are faced with isn't it?
we have given back the gaza area and we are left to sit in our own filth once again while the palestinians misinterpret our actions and we wait to be attacked.
i have been warning for months now that soon after the gaza handback occurs we can expect an upsurge in terrorism and a new intifada. i would prefer not to be correct about any of this and we still have a way to go to make this nightmare reality, but i am afraid we are on the way.
how else are the palestinians going to react when they are being told that the reason that they have received gaza back was because of their armed struggle by their leaders?
if you were living in the west bank now as a palestinian wouldn't you feel just a bit more confident that your actions as a militant might eventually have a greater good for your nation of which you have dreamed about and been told to expect all of your life?
who on the palestinian side is going to stand up and say, no, now we have reached the point where we must give up our armed struggle and sit with the israelis to make peace?
the head of hamas was quoted on friday as saying that the destruction of israel is the goal of his organization.
thing is i could go own for a book lenght diatribe here but i will not. what we have just witnessed is an act by israel to get out of gaza, a place that it faced a losing proposition and one in which was going to always be a focal point for violence.....
and now we face the mob mentality and all of its ill wind.
i fully expect things to get worse before they get better here, i fully expect for missiles to be shot from west bank villages into israeli towns including my own - kfar saba.
thing is i want peace but as i was reminded last week, no body has ever lost money betting against peace in the middle east the past hundred years.
i was really hoping to turn this blog into something else other than a political/ war commentary........
i was hoping to have notes on architecture, music, books - and i still may get that chance.
i fear that there is a snake that is crawling towards the surface and that my family and i are once again the prey.
good luck to everyone and i hope i can meet you on the other side of the rainbow.
// posted by Zevchi @ 3:01 PM 
