Liberty and Tragedy
Apr. 23rd, 2008 10:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eumeliaThis year marks 60 years of Independence for the State of Israel and 60 years to the Palestinian Expulsion from what is now Israel proper, commonly known as al-Nakba (the Catastrophe).
I won't be here to do anything about those dates, as I am leaving for SA in early May and will likely be missing the brouhaha that will no doubt commence.
I've spoken about this organisation before, but I'll mention them again.
Just before Pesach Breaking the Silence published, online, IDF soldiers testimonies of serving in Hebron in the years 2005-2007.
I'm really not sure what to say other than to urge you all to read them. All of them. Take your time, but read them.
These brave boys (and that really is what they are at this age) are doing something which, if I'm not mistaken, no other country even acknowledges and that is talking about the fact that what goes on in the Occupied Territories is... Well... there ain't no place like Hebron.
The Testimonies - in Hebrew.
The Testimonies - in English.
I won't be here to do anything about those dates, as I am leaving for SA in early May and will likely be missing the brouhaha that will no doubt commence.
I've spoken about this organisation before, but I'll mention them again.
Just before Pesach Breaking the Silence published, online, IDF soldiers testimonies of serving in Hebron in the years 2005-2007.
I'm really not sure what to say other than to urge you all to read them. All of them. Take your time, but read them.
These brave boys (and that really is what they are at this age) are doing something which, if I'm not mistaken, no other country even acknowledges and that is talking about the fact that what goes on in the Occupied Territories is... Well... there ain't no place like Hebron.
The Testimonies - in Hebrew.
The Testimonies - in English.
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Date: 2008-04-23 08:34 pm (UTC)What's SA?
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Date: 2008-04-23 08:38 pm (UTC)Holocaust Memorial day is always a week before Independence day in Israel (which falls of May 1st and May 8th respectively this year, due to the shifting of the Hebrew calendar)
South Africa.
My Granny is turning 90 (*spits three times* *spins around three times and knocks on wood*)
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Date: 2008-04-23 08:53 pm (UTC)What's going on in South Africa?
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Date: 2008-04-23 08:57 pm (UTC)My Granny lives in South Africa, that's where my family is from (my Grandfather from one side and most likely the other side as well) migrated from Eastern Europe (Latvia and Lithuania) between the two Big Wars.