Grief and small hope.
Aug. 22nd, 2005 01:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysobelleI've been reading a lot about the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, and listening to the soundtrack from "Prince of Egypt." I keep hearing Ofra Haza wailing, and the line, "There's a land you promised us" keeps sounding in my brain.
It's not that I believe this is land G-d promised us, as I believe other people say things about land, and as no one's got a fax from the Creator, no one can prove anything one way or the other. What I do know is we fought for this land, the tiny slice of our ancient homeland, and all we want is to be left alone in it. And now it's being fractured and torn apart again. And will it do any good? Will it make the Palestinians happy? Some of them, of course. The ones who just want, as we do, a land of their own. But not the radicals, the terrorists, the suicide bombers and the fanatics. I don't know that we'll be any safer-- just smaller.
I think of the Israeli soldiers crying as they forcibly remove Gaza residents, and I cry, as well. Time will tell, and all anyone can do is hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
It's not that I believe this is land G-d promised us, as I believe other people say things about land, and as no one's got a fax from the Creator, no one can prove anything one way or the other. What I do know is we fought for this land, the tiny slice of our ancient homeland, and all we want is to be left alone in it. And now it's being fractured and torn apart again. And will it do any good? Will it make the Palestinians happy? Some of them, of course. The ones who just want, as we do, a land of their own. But not the radicals, the terrorists, the suicide bombers and the fanatics. I don't know that we'll be any safer-- just smaller.
I think of the Israeli soldiers crying as they forcibly remove Gaza residents, and I cry, as well. Time will tell, and all anyone can do is hope for the best and prepare for the worst.