Category: War & Humanity

Daily entry of the WAR & HUMANITY Special Project.

Michael Rogatchi (C). Elijahu Song. Mixed technique. 2017. Permanent Art Collection. Patmos Foundation. Finland.

After terrible-news and events on Shabbat and sleepless night, the Jewish world and those who sympathise with us, are getting more and more devastating news. The death-toll of Israeli casualties, both military and civilian, rises exponent-like. As always, the best ones and most vulnerable ones pay with their lives for dirty manipulations, calculated escalation, and animalistic hatred demonstrated by the savages. More and more shocking, traumatising videos are circulating – as the one with a poor family in a captivity of the animals, father, mother and their two children, a girl in her 10th and a little boy of 5-6 years old. The family’s third child, an 18-year old girl, was just killed in front of them minutes before. Poor people, innocent civilians, are in shock and utter distress, with the father trying to console his wife, and she, in her turn, tries desperately to shield her two left children. What is the sobbing boy talking about at that moment? He asks his parents, have those who just killed his sister, also killed Netanyahu? He is essentially concerned about it. He understands, a Jewish child, that the enemy aims at the heart of his country meaning its prime-minister, its leader. Which other country has children like ours? Our hearts are bleeding, but our hands are steady, and our eyes are focused. The IDF is doing its job, and we will prevail. Am Israel Chai.

Daily entry of the WAR & HUMANITY Special Project.

Well, quite a holiday Israel had experienced in the worst assault since the Yom Kippur War, and – exactly on the day in a secular calendar marking its 50th anniversary. In the atrocity which would be known as Simchat Torah War. Which we win, undoubtedly. The toll is already devastating. Appalling cruelty by Hamas savages attacking Israel. Terrible losses. Terrible way of losses. All the horrifying pictures which we saw today would stay with us for good. Arrested, beaten and pushed in the jeep with a dozen of savages, a young Israeli woman. I heard her screams from inside the jeep, and am still hearing it all the time. Two young boys in the arms of their grandmother, completely terrified, pushed as hostages to Gaza. I will remember their all faces for a long time. Our soldiers, those who were murdered and those who were captured, looking at their murdered friend. All of them. Elderly women terrified by the savages in their own homes, and taken from their homes to Gaza as hostages. My goodness. It is a long list of revenge, but they all will be avenged. And more.

We are with our people, with the state of Israel, every inch and every second of these challenging and sobering days. We are with all our friends in Israel and their families, each and every of them. They are with the IDF and wishing them smashing, as quick as possible victory over the beasts. We all are collected and ready to fight. And we will prevail. Israel always does. Am Israel Chai.