Well, I got my several days vacation from the Milueem. Got home yesterday afternoon and I’m suppose to get back to base on Wednesday morning. I’ll be finishing the whole reserve duty on the 30th, which is next Wednesday.
I can’t (and won’t) really talk in details about what we’re doing and what happens in the sector I’m serving, but I can say that both the Hizbulla and us are on a very thin line there. We’re currently serving in a fairly quiet section of the border, but even though there is always activity. Since Israel went back to the borders of ’48 at the Lebanese front the situation isn’t safe. All the high places and strategic areas are in the hands of the Hizbulla, while the border go through valleys and controllable areas. The Hizbulla have an absolute strategic superiority in the region, and since they have the means and the will to attack Israel it creates a hard reality. Since the Hizbulla does care about it’s image he wants a cause to open other sections of the border (Beside Har Dov) to fighting. For that he wants us, Israel, to “attack first” so it can claim ‘we started’. So they keep causing provocations in hope that the IDF will be forced to make a big act, which will be a “justified cause” to open another part of the fence to fighting.
So, the whole northern border might seem quiet, but it’s quite tense. Both sides watch each other very closely, trying to gather as much intel on the other side as possible. The hizbulla looks for info to help it make successful terror attacks, and Israel try to gather info to prevent such actions.
All in all, it’s not the hardest line I’ve done so far, actually it’s fairly ok, but it’s still a line with an enemy that seeks fighting. Not the nicest way yo pass your time.
And I’m not even discussing the headache I’m going to have at the end, needing to catch up on a month full of studies in university, hand several assignments about material covered when I was missing. I hate these periods. Always a hard and intense month or so trying to catch up everything right before the exams. Ho well. That’s life.
Ok, I’m about to go to sleep now. I’m off to milueem (reserve duty) tomorrow morning, so I won’t be around for 3 weeks or so (depends when I’ll get my small vaccation). Anyway, I’ve got everything ready, even my Coffee Kit (“Pakal Kafe” in hebrew) and some books for the free hours.
Few small notes: To people that send me SMSs and find they have more to say then the SMS allows – How about just send me an email or add a comment here, if it’s not that personal. I’m getting many SMSs which stop in the middle of a sentence… and Anne – Don’t worry, I’ll take those pictures for you. You know what I’m talking about…
See you all back at May 1st.
Hot. Really hot. Really Really hot.
the air conditioner in my room lakes gas so It’s barely cooling. You really need to lay on it and push your head inside to feel a cold refreshing breeze. Any other way is just not effective. Then again, I’ll take this heat over rain or snow. Anytime. I’m absolutly a summer person.
Anyway, My cousin Sagit is on it’s way here, and we’ll all go out to celebrate her birthday (which is tomorrow). She’s going to work most of Pesah (Passover) and will only be free for the Seder (passover main dinner). She’s a Doctor at Belinson Hospital and works really hard, so we thought of taking her today for a little fun. BTW, the current song I’m keep playing over and over is While the Earth Sleeps by Deep Forest & Peter Gabriel. It’s an old one but I’ve just rediscovered it…
I’ll be off to shower, the heat is really heavy.
I haven’t written for more then a week, for 2 main reasons. First, I’ve kind of blocked myself from any news source since I had enough of all this war issue. The second reason, and the most important, is that I felt uncomfortable writing with the sudden rise of attention. This personal log is just a side thing, I have much bigger activities online, and suddenly getting 2,600 visitors a day instead of the usual 100-120 felt… well, exposed. Specially when articles about Salam Pax started to be published on the net and direct people to my site (and sometimes even misquoting things I said).
Anyway, I took a week off, hoping most of the people came looking for Salam, or thinking I’m an Iraqi myself (and you’ll be amazed by the number of emails and SMSs I got from people thinking I’m an Iraqi) will fade away with time. I’m now back in Ashkelon for the weekend, since I have to leave on Monday to do a reserve duty until May. That will be 3 weeks or so with no access to the internet (or to ANYTHING in the real world), so I thought I would best be updating now.
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