Re: Jazzis Web Shop News 08/2006

On 13 Aug 2006 13:10:55 -0700, "Jazzis" <mail@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I don't know anyone here that doesn't wish you the best. If they
don't, maybe they'd like to trade places for a few days / weeks.

Although I am not Jewish, Hebrew or Arab or any derivative, all of the
people over in your part of the world have taken too much of a beating
for far too long. Too many centuries of this hostility and
oppression. It almost seems genetic...

There has to be some resolution to the ENTIRE issue, not just the
current affair. All sides need to give concessions and take some
losses / heat for this. That includes us over here in the U.S.

This is not 1948 any more. Israel has a state, country, place to be.
If the settlements cease expanding outward and return to the '60s
borders, there may be some resolution on your side. If Hezbollah and
Hamas cease and desist after that, there may be peace. It the U.N.
can pressure Syria and Iran, there may be possibilities, but I fear
the U.N. has lost its teeth and is now gumming the issues. If all
sides don't work on it, it will continue. ...and it sux...

This is no consolation while you're sitting in a shelter. I don't
understand what that is like. Not yet. This is very real and not a
made for TV "Wag the Dog" scenario.

I would love to see all of our troops some home and let the Iraqis
govern themselves. In fact, I'd love to see all our troops come home
and leave those warring factions, all over the world, to duke it out.
We'll still be standing when the victors cheerfully march with puffed
out chests and nothing else but charred landscape. The only problem
with this stance is that globally, environmentally, it affects us all.

I fear that it is too late for altruism. I only hope that many more
people do not have to die because of a piece of land. Not for an
ideal, but simply for land. The ideal is mentioned but the hidden
motives still linger. It's never, ever enough. Lebensraum died in
Germany in 1945. Let's keep it buried.

Keep the faith... and know this... that a few of us over here do
care.


It is the 33rd day of war and the worse day we have had so far.
Although the alleged cease-fire is only 10 hours away, Haifa and the
surroundings suffered the worse bombardment ever. The sirens sounded
the entire day with fifteen minutes between them and the rockets kept
falling. Rody and me spent almost the entire day in the bomb shelter
and we could not only hear the explosions, but also actually feel them
this time, as the entire building was trembling. The nearest rocket hit
not further then 200 meters from our house, but fortunately it did not
explode. When we tried to have dinner, we had to eat it in three
installments and the entire thing took about two hours. Of course there
was no way I could do any work today. It seems that our northern
neighbors try to send everything they have our way before the
cease-fire begins.

The saying goes that a human being eventually can get used to
everything. Well let me tell you that getting used to this situation
does not seem possible at this point of time. It is difficult to
describe what I actually feel; it as a mixture of many things: fear,
anger, disappointment, frustration, hope, determination and many more,
mixed with sky high levels of adrenaline which overpowers the fatigue.

We have a few small children in our house and they have been with us in
the shelter since day one. So far the children seem to be coping well.
They don't cry and there is no hysteria. But the psychologists say this
will erupt later and some kids might be scarred for life by these
experiences.

The macabre thing is that in the rest of Israel, i.e. south of Haifa,
life goes on completely normally. People work, go to restaurants and
have fun. Not that I wish them anything else of course, but this
dichotomy is adding to the frustration. Especially when we watch TV and
reports from the front of the bombed cities are interrupted by
commercials. Life is strange.

HAVE FUN!


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Tracy Barber
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