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PERSONAL THOUGHTS:
What is a Protective-Edge made out of?
July 22nd, 2014
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ALFEI MENASHE, ISRAEL
Shalom Dear Family and Friends,
Greetings to you, from Samaria !
Being aware of the Information Overload that this technological era has actually trapped us into, we really are trying very hard not to burden you with more thoughts than necessary... and today seems to be such a day, when the Lord says "Yes, it's ok to dispatch a short one". So, here is our second Bulletin, for "Operation Protective Edge" in Gaza.
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What's in a Name...
Just a short line about this limited Operation, which since it started 15 days ago, has become an actual war: The beautiful name which was given to it in Hebrew is Operation "Tsuk Eitan", meaning Operation "Solid Rock"!
No one knows why the English name given to it was changed to Operation "Protective Edge".
It is only the Hebrew name that acknowledges the God of Israel, as being the nation's Solid Rock: Eternal, Trustworthy AND Protective:
"My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth... He who keeps you will not slumber... Behold, He who keeps Israel Shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is your keeper" (Psalm 121:2,4-5).
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When some of the wounded soldiers open up...
As a wounded soldier himself, sustaining quite a severe injury at the Yom Kippur War of 1973, Uzi knows very well that it is a very hard and lengthy process before a soldier is ready to open up, and start talking about hard, war-experiences. Keeping quiet is simply a sure and safe Emotional-defence mechanism, which no veteran willingly lays down, in fear of breaking down without it... It took two years & a series of Pentothal shots, "Truth Serum", before Uzi was ready to open up slightly. A "Truth Serum" is described as a colloquial name for any of a range of psychoactive medications, used to obtain information from subjects who are unable or unwilling to provide it otherwise...
As a matter of fact, even now, over 40 years after the war, at the age of 64, he sometimes comes up with "new stuff" he never told anyone before!
The reason why we are telling you all this is, because some of the wounded IDF soldiers being treated in Israeli hospitals, for injuries sustained while fighting in Gaza, have started opening-up and talking. They are telling the Media in Israel of horrific, terrible things they have encountered in the past five days, since entering in. The bitterest & toughest battles apparently took place in a suburb of Gaza called "Shja'iya". The fact that some of them are indeed talking, is either a sign indicating that they are "naturally-open" characters, or more likely - that the trauma they experienced was of an enormous magnitude! If they won't talk - they'll explode! Uzi believes that the latter reason is the valid reason.
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The Gazan Human Shields...
And this is what the soldiers are telling:
"We went into Shuja'iya, to discover and destroy the Hamas' Terrorist Tunnels. We discovered there an entire underground-city, with multi-shaft, wide tunnels, with Wi-Fi & air-conditioning systems, concrete walls, and stocked to the ceiling with weapons and explosives. Some of the tunnels are so wide, that they can ride back and forwards on Vespa type scooters..."
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"And then came the worst! The Hamas "fighters" started sending towards us 13- and 14-year-old Palestinian children, running at us, wearing explosive-laden suicide-bomber belts!! Those children were death-trapped, and became human-bombs, by their Community's adults!!"
"We were trained to fight adult-soldiers or any other skilled adults, enabling us to defend our families and countrymen. But this?? We had no other option but, in self-defense, to shoot them at as far a range from us as we could, before the "responsible-adult" that sent them - used his mobile-phone to detonate the belts, and kill us".
One of the injured soldiers ended up by saying: "I do not know if I'll ever be able to sleep again: the pictures of those poor children, killed by my gun, will probably never leave me!"
Let us conclude with the sad words of one of Israel's past Prime Ministers, the late Mrs. Golda Meir:
"We may be able to forgive the Arabs for the killing of our children. We cannot however forgive them, for forcing us to kill theirs! Peace will come when the Arabs start to love their children more than they hate us!".
In some cases, forgiveness is not an easy thing to do, but a hard-hard choice! Let us pray Israel is ready to learn this lesson too!
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Although the world would like us to believe that this area, Samaria, is NOT Israel - the Bible tells us that Judea and Samaria are indeed
the heartland of Israel, FOREVER !!
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From these beautiful Hills of Samaria, we bid you Shalom,
Charlotte and Uzi
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