Facts About Lebanon + Israeli Women Blog in Russian
| 08:40 UK time, Thursday, 20 July 2006
Some proud claims at a tough time in these , including:
Lebanon is the only non-dictatorial country in the Arab world
And this from an Israeli Russian-language blog, written mainly by emigres from the former Soviet Union. translates a selection of posts about the war, written by Israeli women, in Russian.
July 19, 2006:
On girls and bombs
Very moving discussions are taking place regarding the photos of the girls signing missiles with 鈥淭o Nasrullah from Israel with Love.鈥 Incredible discussions, cave mentality, along the lines of 鈥渁nd you drink the blood of Christian infants [鈥.鈥 Seemingly normal people are fighting each other on both sides of the barricade.
But do you know that in Israel there is such an army profession as a military clown? It鈥檚 a person who entertains children in bomb shelters. And there鈥檚 also such a branch of child psychology as the psychology of stress. And a child on whose house fall Katyushas, who hears sirens ten times a day and has a class on 鈥渉ow to hide from missiles鈥 at school, is taken to paint missiles, by psychologists. The missiles, which, by the way, aren鈥檛 going to be used to bomb a specific Nasrullah - because these are artillery missiles. But children don鈥檛 care. This is therapy. It鈥檒l just help them stutter less and sleep better at night - yes, until the first siren, but still - and not to hide under the table for 20 hours each day as the children of Sderot do.
By the way, they changed the missile alert code in Israel (鈥漷he scarlet dawn鈥 - 鈥渟hachar adom鈥), because of a request from a 4-year-old girl called Shachar (Dawn). The army has changed the missile alert code because a 4-year-old Shachar gets teased at the kindergarten - they call her name 鈥渁 bad sign.鈥
Everyone has, of course, forgotten about bombs with flowers and words written in chalk: 鈥淥n to Berlin!鈥 Even though it鈥檚 our - our common - history textbooks.
God willing, you won鈥檛 find out what a war in your house is - the house that you have nowhere to go from. Nowhere to go because you don鈥檛 have thousands of kilometers for retreat. And, God willing, YOUR army will listen to little girls鈥 requests. And there鈥檒l be a profession of a military clown in your army. [鈥
Comments
Americans crying to be evacuated by their governmemt: Any American dumb enough to be in that place at this time deserves what ever happens to him/her.
I believe the State Department for over two years has said, officially, "stay away"!
The same people don't read the warnings on cigarette packs.
Great article.