Please forgive me, but I can not read comments any more Please understand me and just know that.

Thank you for your support.

My child wants a small grey kitten. Money is not an issue.

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sid75

From Someone Else’s Journal
By deargen
@ 2006-08-03 12:19:00

The other day our neighbors' relative came from Lebanon. He is a Christian. Here is what he has been saying:

- The best thing in Lebanon right now is to die from natural cause or from a disease. Hizballah will pay for the funeral and provide a death allowance [to family members - muchnik]. That is, so long as the name of the deceased is put on the list of the “victims of Israeli military atrocities.” The body may also be taken to wreckage sites and photographed, in which case the payout will be larger. The authorities know this, and so do the foreign journalists, but they prefer not to talk about it for various reasons.
- Hizballah does not allow photographing or videotaping to be done freely inside towns. Only the sites that they designate can be shown, and only in the ways that Hizballah wants them to be presented. For example, buildings that were destroyed a long time ago could be described as the aftermath of recent bombings.
Everyone knows about this but reporters either have reasons not to talk about it or they are simply scared to do so.

- All Hizballah military centers are located within civilian neighborhoods. Civilians are discouraged from leaving them. Sometimes they get threatened, but more often they are simply told that if they leave, they would lose their properties and all their belongings. People believe it, and they often decide to test their luck [and stay].

- Taxi cab drivers (the neighbors’ uncle has something to do with the taxi business) have a list of addresses where they are not allowed to take foreign journalists. They are required to report any photo- and videotaping of “unapproved” sites. Those include working commercial centers in areas that have never been used by Hizballah. A driver that violates the ban can easily get killed (and probably be claimed as another victim of bombings? – Auth.). And so on.

But! The neighbors’ uncle is an ultra-leftist. He feels strongly against Israel, which he calls “the center of capitalist expansion,” etc. What makes him not a scum is the fact that he is an honest man. His opinions are not based on his views of ethnic questions, nor on the price of oil, nor on foul politics (which is how the Russian government builds their propaganda). They are based on his values. He had spent time in a Lebanese prison for Leninism and such. After all, I hardly have any reasons not to believe the words a man who thinks that Israel is an aggressor but who also believes that “Hizballah’s very nature is disgusting and people who support it are scum.”


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It would have been funny if it wasn't so sad...

Intro: As I have said earlier, we hear Akko explosions wery well, not only explosions but sirens also.

Story: At 8.45 in the morning I woke up at the sounds of far siren. I got up quickly, took on my dressing gown, ran out to the corridor (the safest place in my flat)... and only then realized that it was not our siren but the siren in Akko.

Another story told by a shop assistant from the shop at the road. Her daughter, 6 years old, is playing dolls and suddenly the police with siren goes by. The girl quickly grabbs her toys, puts on her shoes and runs up to the door. Her mother had to explain her it was not a siren, just the police


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“How I spent the summer”

Remember how in school you had assignments to read something or do something, and after that to made a conclusion (from a book, life situation, school trip)? So I have to tell you – I made a very important conclusion from this war, from my current life situation. You have no right to postpone something. Thank you, Hezbollah for our ... shit, for this genius realization :)
If you want to drink coffee – drink it now. Soon there would be another siren, everyone would go to the bomb shelter and you would still want to drink coffee. If you want to take a shower – do it now, but quickly. If you want to have a dinner – do not postpone it, there will be no time for that later.
And the most important thing: tell your children that you love them. Tell your husband that you love him. Tell everyone...

... Siren...

... I'm finishing this post. 15 minutes have passed :)

If you truly respect and value a person – tell him that. Right know.
Dear friends! I respect you and I value you :) And I wish that you would never hear sounds of sirens and explosions. And the very minimum – I wish you to have a nice evening! :)

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It was such a loud explosion at 8 PM!
Now I understand Zhenya (sestra_milo) – it is very interesting to know where the rocket exploded. Especially if it’s exploding so loudly that walls are shaking.

Sasha, did you get home safely?

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A heavy barrade in Haifa

Seven direct hits in different regions of the city, lots of wounded, several killed. Two houses collapsed, the rescue teams are trying to get to the people under the rubble.

Update: 1 killed, about 80 wounded, several - badly hurt.

New Update: 170 wounded by now! About 20 were pulled from under the ruins.

New new update: 3 killed already.

250 wounded. Most are in shock, but there are several badly hurt.

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A report containing photos of an aid cortage in Tel-Aviv, 4.08.2006

http://community.livejournal.com/samooborona/106655.html

For your information: Same thing goes on in Haifa: once the cortage from Haifa left for Kiryat Shmone with the collected stuff, Jenya and Rachel's flat (from the Magen center) is yet again stuffed with food, so that the next cortage is coming along.


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Daniel Shiran, a son of a doctor from our hospital, Dr. Avinoam Shiran - a college of mine, has been killed tonight in Lebanon.
May his memory be blessed!

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Forgot to tell you!

Remember the photos of the balls, that make up the warheads of the missiles, that are falling on our heads? These small, toy-like balls, about half a santimeter in diameter. They go through a 8-mm metal sheet like nothing. Each missile has 40000 such balls. Forty thousand a piece. In each missile. In each...

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And I got to hold such a ball in my hand. Do envy me!
Our friends from the Magen center brought such a ball, that hit their car, on Tuesday to the beith midrash. They keep it as a charm now, and they generously let us all touch it.

A second banshee in 10 minutes. Police says Haifa is now being targeted. We haven't been hit yet, but it seems to be coming. Acco scored a hit into a 5-stories appartment house. 3 dead, 4 heavily wounded. So far 8 people died today of missiles at the North. And 4 soldiers were killed today in Lebanon.

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olgabrook 2006-08-06
I lost count which day of war it is. For the last three weeks my family is not at home, and I am carrying all my belongings on myself at all times, like a snail, because it's a rare morning when I know where I will spend the next night. Actually, usually its the hospital - whether I am on duty or not. My family is already beyond despair, but there is no choice - getting back home now would be a stupid move. Irene [daughter] took the war in stride, to my surprise - she sees and hears everything, but she is not afraid. She just says that the alarm was too loud. And she keeps asking why we are being bombed. And she asks to be taken home - to her own crib, to her toys, to her day care center... Sasha [husband] is a hero, there is nothing else I can say here.
At work people are being called up to the army all the time, and the ranks close immediately - someone else takes his place...
I realized just now, during my last shift, that I am working at a military hospital in the fighting army. Yeah, I know, I am slow. It's just that before every wounded was a special event, and now it is just a routine job. Every minute, without a warning, a helicopter may arrive with 2-5-12 wounded. And, alas, they do come. I can only hope that it is not someone I know and they do not have any "interesting" wounds...

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lady0_0 2006-08-07

closing the circle, you would look back all of a sudden...[from Russian Rock]
I read the post http://chenai.livejournal.com/343339.html and I suddenly realized that I speak, read and write in the language [Russian] of my enemies. What a pity!
I am trying to imagine myself visiting the xUSSR countries and shaking hands of those who make weapons that rain onto my country.
I am trying to imagine what the tourists from Russia will feel here.
Yeah, I do make a distinction between a person and a country.
But this distinction crumbles when I read some LJ posts.
People, maybe I am reading the wrong stuff?
Maybe my classmates and friends in the xUSSR are still the same to me, and they are not calling only because it is too expensive?
Maybe maybe maybe ... it is time to grow up? :-(

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