It is Saturday morning and Daniel is deeply saddened by his loss in a chess game. On the same evening the ground fighting in Gaza had begun. It is my first war here with a child. I'm wandering what to do. Considering ways of escape.
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Wow! you are back!
Is writing in the bubble considered a way to escape?
Amazing pic!!!
Posted by: Bro | January 05, 2009 at 03:48 PM
I'm amazed you checked! Truth is I am terribly afraid. Perhaps that's my motivation? Yesterday was so sunny and nice in TLV, and I kept thinking in my head: "BOOM!".
Posted by: Hadas | January 05, 2009 at 11:50 PM
I was just about to write the same thing – "Wow! You're back!"
I have been thinking about you, Uri and Daniel a lot lately (I know, I know, I should have emailed. I don't think I'll ever get into using Skype(sp?)).
And my heart skipped a beat when I saw the (lovely!) photo of Daniel playing chess. I've just finished 'The Yiddish Policeman's Union'. What an amazing novel. Fascinating, entertaining, hilarious and heart-breaking. Not unlike the situation you find yourself in now, I'm afraid.
You could come back to Toronto, but...it's FREEZING cold right now. Even I can barely stand it.
Stay well and safe, my dear.
Posted by: patricia | January 25, 2009 at 11:20 AM
Darling! good to hear from you. Thanks for your kind words. These are hard times. Truth is one can't actually feel or see a change in the streets of TLV in the past couple of weeks since the war broke. No more than one would feel it while living in Toronto. It's all in one's mind. I'll write more later; I'm suffering from a terrible cold.
Posted by: Hadas | January 25, 2009 at 02:21 PM
Look how he has grown!
Hurray that you have returned!
Thank you for posting.
Thank you for sharing with us.
Love,
georgy
Posted by: Georgy | January 29, 2009 at 04:33 PM
Thank you for coming back!!
Posted by: shirli | February 12, 2009 at 08:01 PM
Thanx a lot, lovely people of the Internet for your support. I can't believe you're still there (after all this time). I plan to continue to publish, now that I realize I'm living in what appears to be a period of an historic transition in Israel from a democratic to a fascist state. For those of you who are interested in history, and who often found themselves wondering how can such a thing happen; how are people manipulated to cooperate, or choose to resist, or leave, or simply bury their heads in the sand and refuse to see the writing on the wall - I'm here, to tell you how it goes.
Posted by: Hadas | February 15, 2009 at 02:04 AM
How very though with a war around. Can´t imagne that feeling. Hope hope peace will come very soon.
Chess, my son Otto have a Star Wars chess but he rarley plays the game with it, he plays with the figures instead. And yes I´m sure he would want to battle Daniel in Bakugans :)
Posted by: Elisabeth Dunker | December 30, 2009 at 03:40 AM
Its very sad article I like this cute child.This child also wanna peace in this world.
Posted by: Term Papers | January 11, 2010 at 12:49 AM