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Opinion | Stuck, the day after | Israel today

2022-05-09T20:42:11.350Z


I ask that the residents of Hermela be moved to Gaza, that the Arabs of the area and in general know that this is what will be done to the village from which terrorists come out.


One child is sleeping;

A second child, soon to be a bar mitzvah, sees news with me.

Almost eight and a half.

The local public address system shouts: "True alarm, terrorist infiltration!"

We run to the security room, make sure everything is locked, turn off the lights, close the windows. I carefully move the old one to the bed in the security room.

The elder explains to him without confusion that it is just an exercise, "but one should act as if it is the most real thing there is."

With that composure he reminds me to take the weapon and bring him the bag because it has pepper gas in it.

We lay out a hiking mat on the floor, turning off the light.

They both fall asleep.

I hear noises outside, and the neighbors dog is barking.

I step on the weapon, holding my breath.

Not afraid, only the tears flow by themselves.

Meanwhile dozens of phone messages from family and friends.

I joke with them, but the crying sometimes obscures the vision so I get gibberish.

Three hours later, with wine and a cigarette.

It will help me fall asleep.

Unload the weapons outside, into the grass, so that there will be no ricochets.

Think how fucked up it is.

How everything we did tonight is unique to us, here, to Israel, and especially to the settlements, and that there is no chance of translating this article into any language without dozens of footnotes that would explain this horrific reality.

Yair Maimon eliminated the terrorist in front of his house.

His wife, Meirav, was drinking tea with him when they noticed a terrorist climbing on the fence that was almost next to their balcony.

Meirav was the caregiver of my two children, two of her seven children in a class with my children.

On the same porch, after a sleepless night and lots of coffee and media interviews, Maimon says with a half-smile that even a chubby hitchhiker becomes the fastest puller in the East when his family is threatened.

I drive in the locality and salute everyone.

To everyone who put in a washing machine this morning, to everyone who passed a rag, to everyone who sits in the cafe and drinks a morning espresso, to everyone who sent the kids to school and did not forget to prepare food for them.

Kissed, smiled, wished a good day.

To everyone who dressed nicely and went to work - they are all superheroes.

In the village of Hermela, from which the terrorist came, there is no interest.

This is a small village of Hamas supporters located across the main road (the neighborhood where Maimon lives is jokingly called "Nofei Haramela").

In the village they start telling a lie, about him arguing with his father and that's why he got hurt.

No one stuck with a quarrel with his father, never went to a harem with a knife and tried to murder Arab children.

We have different customs, probably.

Yair asks that the fence be moved to the road, so that the alarm really has meaning.

He knows he did not need much so that instead of going to work, we would go to funerals.

I ask that the residents of Hermela be moved to Gaza, that the Arabs of the area and in general know that this will be done for the village from which terrorists are leaving.

Because we know how to move residents, we have already tested this in Gush Katif.

If we move them from Hramla, another neighborhood of Tekoa will be built on the lands of the village.

I have a feeling that on the day that this happens, there will be a great many family therapists among the Palestinians, in order to promote peace at home.

That way everyone will benefit.

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Source: israelhayom

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