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*culled from the emergency emails home*
So turns out Hezbollah /doesn't/ want to be the little Islamic fundamentalist group who cried we're attacking Israel for realz. Well, they've yet to claim responsibility, but /really/. It's them or Lebanon-roaming Palestinian militant cells, and no one thinks they've this sort of firepower, and for honor's sake I think Hezbollah pretty much has to try and claim this was them and then carry through with the iniative regardless of who actually did it. EDIT: And apparently American news has already decided it was Hezbollah /regardless/ of actual evidence. Thank god for their decisive action: I don't want to wait for facts, I want Fox to cut through all the ambiguities that torture me with the shining scissors of truthiness. Yes: Hezbollah. Thanks. Five rockets hit Nahariyah (30 min south of us). We had to scramble for the bomb shelters, but they forgot to get the volunteers who had off-days and so I woke up at nine because the missiles were fully audible, even from the distance of a half-hour's drive away. Right now they haven't openly declared, but it's looking like despite the material disadvantages Hezbollah still faces from the last war the current conflict may become a two-front one.
In the last war, two and a half years ago, Bar'am only got hit with one missile, which lodged guiltlessly in a tree. The 5000 person village 15 minutes further south got aprox. 158 missiles in the course of a thirty three day conflict, according to a resident. I've been told that on some occasions you can get stuck hiding in a bomb-shelter for two solid days. Shera and Casper who were working dining say a little old woman was crying and shrieking when they tried to move her from the dining hall to the nearest shelter because she was terrified she'd fall on the stairs and break her legs: seems a bit beside the point.
We may be evacuated south, into a band of the country vulnerable to neither Hezbollah/Lebanon nor Hamas/Gaza, I don't know. They're evacuating twenty kibbutzniks (members) FROM the south (from within Gaza/Hamas rocket range) here, which seems counter-intuitive. For now and the forseeable future I'm not going anywhere or leaving the kibbutz. I'm very lucky/happy that due to lack of funds I didn't go south to Haifa /today/ as I'd planned--the buses all go through Nahariyah. For now I'm relatively safe. Really, I am. And er, I get to stop working in kitchen and switch to dining instead on Sunday, though that also seems a bit beside the point.
You know, Bakhtin wrote some of his most inspired literary criticism in Russia's WWI trenches. It's the same for me and slash fanfic, yes? Man, the phrase 'I am the bomb' is rapidly loosing all its ironic nostalgia cool now that I'm actually under threat of bombing.
And yet NOTHING has ever made me feel guiltier than this email from my grandma:
"Subject: Thank you
So glad to hear from you, just was watching eary tv and they told rockets were fired from Leb. into northern Isreal and my ears perked up but they didn't say where they landed. No way you can get home I guess, dumb question! U.S. tv says it was Hezbolla. This will bring more escallation, {sp} Keep us informed, can I call you? I thought you might be in hiding or something and would not want heard. Love,Love,Love Grandma"
AUGH. O_O
So turns out Hezbollah /doesn't/ want to be the little Islamic fundamentalist group who cried we're attacking Israel for realz. Well, they've yet to claim responsibility, but /really/. It's them or Lebanon-roaming Palestinian militant cells, and no one thinks they've this sort of firepower, and for honor's sake I think Hezbollah pretty much has to try and claim this was them and then carry through with the iniative regardless of who actually did it. EDIT: And apparently American news has already decided it was Hezbollah /regardless/ of actual evidence. Thank god for their decisive action: I don't want to wait for facts, I want Fox to cut through all the ambiguities that torture me with the shining scissors of truthiness. Yes: Hezbollah. Thanks. Five rockets hit Nahariyah (30 min south of us). We had to scramble for the bomb shelters, but they forgot to get the volunteers who had off-days and so I woke up at nine because the missiles were fully audible, even from the distance of a half-hour's drive away. Right now they haven't openly declared, but it's looking like despite the material disadvantages Hezbollah still faces from the last war the current conflict may become a two-front one.
In the last war, two and a half years ago, Bar'am only got hit with one missile, which lodged guiltlessly in a tree. The 5000 person village 15 minutes further south got aprox. 158 missiles in the course of a thirty three day conflict, according to a resident. I've been told that on some occasions you can get stuck hiding in a bomb-shelter for two solid days. Shera and Casper who were working dining say a little old woman was crying and shrieking when they tried to move her from the dining hall to the nearest shelter because she was terrified she'd fall on the stairs and break her legs: seems a bit beside the point.
We may be evacuated south, into a band of the country vulnerable to neither Hezbollah/Lebanon nor Hamas/Gaza, I don't know. They're evacuating twenty kibbutzniks (members) FROM the south (from within Gaza/Hamas rocket range) here, which seems counter-intuitive. For now and the forseeable future I'm not going anywhere or leaving the kibbutz. I'm very lucky/happy that due to lack of funds I didn't go south to Haifa /today/ as I'd planned--the buses all go through Nahariyah. For now I'm relatively safe. Really, I am. And er, I get to stop working in kitchen and switch to dining instead on Sunday, though that also seems a bit beside the point.
You know, Bakhtin wrote some of his most inspired literary criticism in Russia's WWI trenches. It's the same for me and slash fanfic, yes? Man, the phrase 'I am the bomb' is rapidly loosing all its ironic nostalgia cool now that I'm actually under threat of bombing.
And yet NOTHING has ever made me feel guiltier than this email from my grandma:
"Subject: Thank you
So glad to hear from you, just was watching eary tv and they told rockets were fired from Leb. into northern Isreal and my ears perked up but they didn't say where they landed. No way you can get home I guess, dumb question! U.S. tv says it was Hezbolla. This will bring more escallation, {sp} Keep us informed, can I call you? I thought you might be in hiding or something and would not want heard. Love,Love,Love Grandma"
AUGH. O_O
