21/07/2006
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An Israeli journalist tells of the fear in Haifa
“Worrying over our destinies doesn’t help us. To help us would be to explain
the feelings and the logic of the Israelis and to explain our reasons”. This is
an answer from Israel by Dan Rabá, journalist and collaborator of the newspaper
Europa when asked how things are going.
Fear and exhaustion. Dan and his family live in the outskirts of Haifa. On Monday 17th, under the
fire
of Hezbollah, 9 people were killed. “This war has been a surprise for the majority
of Israelis. It has started without a particular reason. I don’t live in Galilee
but I was born in the kibbutz Bar’am and I’ve lived in the kibbutz Sasa for 12
years. Both of them are at the border of Lebanon and both have been struck. In
1995 I moved to Haifa where my wife works in the Rambam hospital, and later we
moved into the village of Beniamina in the countryside 20 kilometers further south.
We feel anxious but my wife goes to work every day at the very centre of the tension
and is exhausted by fear and tiredness. Being and anesthetist she has to take
care of the most wounded. I hardly ever get to see her!”
Disillusion. Anxiety, which finding oneself in war all of a sudden creates, has not, however,
divided the public opinion in Israel. “There is a consensus around the idea of
us being right and that Nasrallah needs to be destroyed. Public opinion holds
that it has been a mistake to leave him alone for six years” Dan comments, expanding
the discussion to involve the neighboring countries claiming how “everybody” knows
that Hezbollah receives arms from Iran: 11 thousand bombs made in Teheran reach
the destination through the airport of Damascus. Syria is an accomplice, Iran
sender. Israel is afraid to attack Syria and for some time it has wanted to destroy
the Iranian nuclear reactor. In order to do this they need USA’s consent and enormous
sums of American money because war is costly. There is an implicit risk of a global
conflict”. For now the expansion of the war remains no more than a threat but
the situation could get worse. What has already gotten worse is the level of people’s
faith in peace. “When I arrived in Israel I thought that you could have a dialogue
with the Arabs and live in peace. I’m convinced that this is what people want
but it is neither the interest of oil nabobs’ nor of other units’ of Arab power”
the journalist claims. “I find it difficult to accept the war, but I don’t know
what else one can do. People are afraid, and they are shut inside shelters. If
one thinks that the Secretary of the Havodá party, the most important representative
of the Israeli left wing is the Minister of Defence, perhaps one can understand
how we have been forced to get involved in this war. I’m afraid that the war will
go on for a few weeks and that there will be many things to tell”, Dan concludes.
Fear and exhaustion. Dan and his family live in the outskirts of Haifa. On Monday 17th, under the
fire
of Hezbollah, 9 people were killed. “This war has been a surprise for the majority
of Israelis. It has started without a particular reason. I don’t live in Galilee
but I was born in the kibbutz Bar’am and I’ve lived in the kibbutz Sasa for 12
years. Both of them are at the border of Lebanon and both have been struck. In
1995 I moved to Haifa where my wife works in the Rambam hospital, and later we
moved into the village of Beniamina in the countryside 20 kilometers further south.
We feel anxious but my wife goes to work every day at the very centre of the tension
and is exhausted by fear and tiredness. Being and anesthetist she has to take
care of the most wounded. I hardly ever get to see her!”
Disillusion. Anxiety, which finding oneself in war all of a sudden creates, has not, however,
divided the public opinion in Israel. “There is a consensus around the idea of
us being right and that Nasrallah needs to be destroyed. Public opinion holds
that it has been a mistake to leave him alone for six years” Dan comments, expanding
the discussion to involve the neighboring countries claiming how “everybody” knows
that Hezbollah receives arms from Iran: 11 thousand bombs made in Teheran reach
the destination through the airport of Damascus. Syria is an accomplice, Iran
sender. Israel is afraid to attack Syria and for some time it has wanted to destroy
the Iranian nuclear reactor. In order to do this they need USA’s consent and enormous
sums of American money because war is costly. There is an implicit risk of a global
conflict”. For now the expansion of the war remains no more than a threat but
the situation could get worse. What has already gotten worse is the level of people’s
faith in peace. “When I arrived in Israel I thought that you could have a dialogue
with the Arabs and live in peace. I’m convinced that this is what people want
but it is neither the interest of oil nabobs’ nor of other units’ of Arab power”
the journalist claims. “I find it difficult to accept the war, but I don’t know
what else one can do. People are afraid, and they are shut inside shelters. If
one thinks that the Secretary of the Havodá party, the most important representative
of the Israeli left wing is the Minister of Defence, perhaps one can understand
how we have been forced to get involved in this war. I’m afraid that the war will
go on for a few weeks and that there will be many things to tell”, Dan concludes.Christian Elia
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