אלינור
Israel under attack
An update
We went to visit relatives in Rehovot on Thursday
afternoon. Sitting around the living room, three of us in sprightly
conversation, the others heard a BOOM! Not too loud but definitely what
you might call a bomb. Hmm, we said, maybe it's
time to go home. Someone tried to pass it off as a construction noise but it was
too late in the day for that. No, we said, it was a bomb. He has too much
experience; I have none, but one knows a bomb when one hears one. Then someone
rang to tell us where it fell, quite far away from us in Holon,
but...
We hurried to the train station. The train
for Tel Aviv was delayed for 20 minutes, no problem. The train to Ashkelon,
heading toward Gaza, was full. It was Thursday and the afternoon trains
are always full of people--soldiers, students--going home for the Sabbath.
We prayed for their safety.
As we approached Tel Aviv we congratulated ourselves on
such a smooth passage, out of harm's way. Suddenly, there was an announcement:
Everybody down on the floor, under the seats. I just let myself slide to the
floor and hid my head under the half-table between the seats; the others went
under the seats as much as they could. The train stopped.
We stayed that way until the all-clear sounded a few
minutes later. The train proceeded to the next station. An enormous
number of people came on board and we were so grateful that they weren't there
when the siren went; we would never have been able to protect ourselves by going
under one flimsy half-table and seats made of fabric.
One rocket landed in the town next to where we had been
and one rocket landed just off shore of Tel Aviv and definitely breached a red
line--no rocket has ever flown that close and we don't like it.
It would seem that hoping war won't happen isn't a very
effective mechanism.
We heard planes all night. We never hear
planes.
cross posted Israel Thrives
Infuriating. Meanwhile, the cowards responsible for this hide amongst their own civilians.
ReplyDeleteI can't even begin to imagine being on, say, a SEPTA train that has to stop, and advise all passengers to take cover under useless flimsy seats, because we're under rocket fire from a gang of punks in Burlington, New Jersey.
And here on certain 'left-wing' US blogs there are Jewish apologists for this shit, like that scumbag David Harris-Gershon, who dare even call themselves 'pro-Israel'(!), no less.
I can only hope this ends soon. And decisively.
Stay safe, everyone...