Dan

אסף בארי כותב על חויות המלחמה שלו:

Note from inside and outside ?the bubble?

I am an Artist who lives in Tel-Aviv and has family living next to the Northern border. I will write about what happened in ?the bubble? ? that is, Tel-Aviv, and what happened in one of Israel?s northern Kibbutzim.

The war (the Second Lebanese war? We still don?t know what to call this shit, as GW Bush so eloquently called it) caught me in Tel-Aviv. I went to one of the bars on Allenby Street to hear a couple of my friends playing. One of them dedicated the show to humanitarianism.

At work during lunchtime, people started discussing which room in the building is safe from Katyushas ? and I?m talking about an office building in Petach-Tikva, very far from Lebanon. Everybody was down cast. Missiles on Tel-Aviv indeed…

In the meantime, I was calling my parents on the Kibbutz, to see if everything was all right. My cell-phone is registered under my Father?s name and thus it belongs to the Kibbutz. The Kibbutz set up an SMS warning system to alert members when there is a chance that Katyushas will fall on them… For a couple of days I had reports coming in right from the battlefield about Katyushas falling on nearby settlements. I felt responsible to alert my parents. I did that once and called home. No answer. Called my dad?s cell-phone. No answer. Called my mom?s cell-phone.

?Hi sweetie, I?m not on the Kibbutz, I?m on this trip far from the border. How are you??

?I just got this SMS about Katyushas. I called our home number and I called dad?s cell-phone, but there?s no answer!?

?Oh, don?t worry, dad?s is probably asleep in the house and he doesn?t hear the phone ringing…?

Well, you can see my parents took this with great non-chalance:

They never went to the shelter; in fact, when I came to visit, I first met them sitting outside the house in our tabernacle, eating sunflower seeds right from the flower. We had a quiet conversation with cannon shots as background, sounding like dance music playing in the distance. Dad said that he and mom are not afraid, that he intends to sit out this war on the couch in the living room in front of the TV, holding steadfast. But he went down to sleep in the basement whenever mom had one of her hunches…

When I got back to Tel-Aviv, the city was full of people ? so many on the streets and in shopping molls. Parking, usually quite a problem even in peacetime, became impossible. When I went to visit one of my friends in a Kibbutz bear Tel-Aviv, I met a family from Tiberias, who sat on the lawn and watched an Israeli comedy about the army…

Nothing funny or glorious. Just very unpleasant.

I felt very angry at myself for not doing more for peace, more than just getting out of Army reserve a couple of years ago. War will solve nothing. Only Love.

Asaf Beeri was born on the Yom-Kippur War cease-fire (October 1973), has an Artist Diploma from the Rubin Academy of Music and plays Oboe, Baroque Oboe, Recorder and Tin-Whistle.

נ.ב:
היום ברדיו ת"א עמנואל רוזן ודני סידס,בתוכנית "גומרים הולכים",מדברים על המצב.

רוזן: "כמו שצה"ל התנהג במלחמה האחרונה, ג'וינט קטן לא היה מזיק לו...!"

התגובה הנשית לבום פאם לא איחרה לבוא…ובגדול!!!
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