Live From a Canadian Hotel Room

July 30, 2006 - 7:33 PM by

Eugene has made it from his Haifa bunker all the way to Canada. He’s working his way through the culture shock.

Waking up in a hotel room in Toronto was very different from waking up back home. For one thing, no sirens. Walking around outside occasionally hearing fire trucks in the distance, the sounds are similar but nobody runs for cover. I’ve been here a few days now and the only time I’ve heard anything about Israel was in a 30 second blip on the news following one about the heat. “The Heat” is 28c, which is pretty much standard in Israel but apparently warrants a warning in Canada.

It’s a strange sensation how life goes on unaffected elsewhere, I think I really got used to the state of affairs in the last two weeks. Going to see fireworks made me think about it again, is this shell shock or am I being overly dramatic?

What’s really interesting here are people my age. Cultural differences work against my humor, but more importantly the people I’ve met have little to no idea of what’s going on. That’s my experience is like so far, if it’s not accurate feel free to shed more light on this in the comments.

In others news, Nasrallah went on TV saying “when did you see two million Israeli’s going down to bunkers for 18 days?” trying to somehow put a positive spin on that. First of, it’s one million, secondly I bet you didn’t see it coming did you? That’s right a million of us dutifully live with sirens and bunkers for almost three weeks to let the IDF get it’s job done and I’m sure by the time I get back they will be doing it. If your still wondering if were going to break first remove that doubt once and for all. I didn’t get a chance to watch his speech but from the transcript it’s pretty clear that he’s getting very worried. He even acknowledged that for Israel there is no alternative (he calls it life or death) course of action and that it’s actions are designed to pressure the Lebanese into taking some actions of their own. He then appealed to the Lebanese to send beside him, I think he’s getting a little desperate, let’s hope most Lebanese are sane and that plea will go ignored.

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  1. Isreali lover on Sun, Jul 30th 2006 8:11 PM

    2. Welcome to Toronto,

    LAnd of the politically correct, land of the bleeding heart liberals, land of the ignorant of world matters.
    People here have no idea of the immediacy of life , the urgency, the day to day survival.

    I watch, read, listen to what is happening in the Middle East, reading media from North America, Lebanon, Isreal, Syria, and the other Arab states, I am tryng to read as many blogs from those countries I just mentioned too. War is never pretty, I don’t think a cease fire at this momment in time is appropriate either.

    As a 49 year old female jew I don’t know what to do, I want to help Isreal in its fight against the Hezbollah, I am not rich I dont have lots of money, all I have is me, the IDF won’t take me, perhaps there are some other jewish organizations where i can help, do you have any suggestions.

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