Far and Away

December 31, 2008 - 2:18 PM by Harry

rockets It’s not hard to feel somewhat detached from the reality of what is going on in the south. For several years now the citizens of Sderot have been forced to run to their bomb shelters numerous times a day in the wake of Hamas missile volleys while us who live further north just go about our normal lives. I’ve had to force myself to really think about what life must be like down there. It’s certainly intolerable and I support the government’s military action (though I wish it came earlier) though what’s happening down there seems like it is happening in another world. I felt the same way during the first days of last Lebanon war. Though as the days went on things changed very quickly. The tipping point was first receiving a hysterical call from a friend who was just a hundred meters away from the ketyusha missile that killed 13 soldiers in Kfar Giladi. The second was receiving a chilling text message from one of my best friends in the reserves right now that read Anachnu Olim L’Gvul - We are heading to the border. Out of some stroke of luck I wasn’t called up in the last war and I hope my luck doesn’t change though I would

It’s been announced that the IDF is calling up of almost 7000 reservists. The only person I know who has been called up thus far is a friend of a friend but nearly everyone I know is anxiously waiting for their phones to ring. We are praying they don’t, but if they do, we are ready.

Photo from flickr user paul-simpson.org under a creative commons license.

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