Visión israelí del sinsentido...

Extraigo del blog de mi cantante favorito, el líder del fantástico grupo canadiense Matthew Good Band (blog de Matthew), un testimonio sorprendente de primera línea por la calma y la desesperanza que transmite:

My name is Shiri and I’ve lived in Haifa, Israel all of my life. I don’t think anyone who watches CNN and reads about this online really knows what it’s like to live here in Israel. Or in Lebanon for that matter but I can only offer my own point of view. I can’t really remember a situation similar to this in all the twenty-one years I’m alive. I was about six in the first gulf war and I don’t remember much of it, except for those funny-looking masks or so I thought at the time.
I didn’t leave my house since Friday, neither do my parents and my seventeen year old brother who are living together with me in the same house. I personally didn’t expect the rockets to reach here, I was sure it will remain a local issue, in all those smaller cities in the north that always seem to get hit. But I was wrong and for the last two days, dozens of rockets have hit Haifa, killing eight people and injuring dozens. I live in the “safe” part of the city but the “booms” of the rockets are clearly heard here.
I woke up at 6 A.M. this morning to the sound of the alarming sirens, it turned out to be false and I returned to bed. I woke up again around noon and as we were sitting to the table to eat lunch, another alarm was heard in the air. When we run downstairs to the shelter, we always turn up the volume of the television that’s in another room so we’ll be able to hear the news while sitting there. We had five alarms like this today. A building was directly hit, people were trapped in the ruins. No one was killed thankfully. Another day goes by.
This is strange. People on a Matthew Good message board say they’re sorry and wonder how come I seem calm. I’ve grown up to feel indifferent to these kinds of things, I’m not sure if it’s a good or a bad thing. Not that long ago I finished serving my mandatory two years in the army and I can’t help but think what they’re going through right now. I hear airplanes all the time. I can’t stop watching the news on TV. The images from Lebanon seem like a horror movie to me. I certainly don’t envy the Lebanese people, obviously they’re in worse conditions than we are and I believe they are innocent victims in this exactly like us.
Peace in the Middle East? Something inside me can’t help but feeling that there’s no chance I’ll live to see the day.
Shiri Levy is 21 and recently completed her two year service in the IDF. She plans on beginning graphic design studies next year.

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