Posted on 10/21/2010 10:27:49 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Somewhere between the Jordanian border and the Green Line, we'll call it Kiryat M'uyamim, night before last, IDF/Police officers rousted out two families at 3 a.m. Their belongings were cast out and tractors and bulldozers destroyed the small hovels that they had built with their own hands. There was no advance warning of this. Neighbors took the unfortunate families in, and the next day everyone went to work. I was in Kiryat M'uyamim last night. At dark, a cement mixer descended the hill towards Kiryat M'uyamim, along with a procession of several small cars. My wife, young son and I followed them down the hill and quickly got a ride. On the smaller, adjacent hill of Kiryat M'uyamim, on a ledge further down an embankment, a small flat area had been smoothed over, marked off with rope, enclosed within a makeshift partition of boards and rocks, and the floor of the enclosed area covered with a network of rebar, some of it straight, some of it bent into odd shapes. A chute was set up under the cement mixer, and a crowd of men, boys and women gathered round, waiting for the cement to pour. Those men with long boots on waited with gardening hoes, plastic buckets, broad swaths of plywood and other makeshift tools. The concrete poured, and the men in the boots hastened to spread the mixture evenly throughout the enclosure. Slowly the enclosure filled up with the cement, and one of the men took off his boots and told the older boys to line up and each take a turn spreading. The boys whooped with excitement, and lined up, eagerly taking off their shoes. My son was in the back of the line, because he's only eight. Some boys had to be repeatedly ordered to give the next one a turn, so absorbed were they with the work. Women filmed the progress with digital cameras. Before all the boys got a turn, however, the cement truck pulled away and two men with a large plank and two long handles took over, meticulously plumbing the fresh-poured mixture, trying to give it an even consistency. The entire undertaking lasted for about an hour, during which a military-green jeep with a light on its roof hovered around on the road above us. People still watched, but nearby one of the residents, a musician, also under threat, was going to give a free concert in protest against the bulldozing, so my son and I finally climbed up the embankment and waited for the show to begin.
My son asked me if what we had witnessed was like when he stands up to bullies at school. I told him that it was the very same thing, only the bullies are bigger, and their threats are much more real.
I'll stand with those dispossessed families any day, and help lay foundations with them any night.
Belatedly is too late.
Whatever. I’m not a journalist. Do me a favor and witness things yourself. Then you can stun us with your journalistic acumen, and in the mean time I’ll put on blinders until I can go to journalism school.
LOL. Nah, too hard. I think I’ll just meander over to the article on how Michelle Obama is digging up turnips in the WH garden for all the starving children in America.
No, you are so lame as to walk right into the comment to which you are responding. Throw your shoes at me, if you have any. Then shine mine.
What does being a journalist have to do with simply stating “Hey, the IDF rousted their own people”?
Absolutely nothing.
Well, maybe that’s why they were wearing boots. Sheesh.
Thanks Eleutheria5.
From your post 46:
"that’s why they were wearing boots."
So which is it?
“You did NOT say they were Jewish settlers which gave the impression you were speaking about Palestinians.
Hence why people questioned you.”
Why, in my prior posts have I been known to attempt to elicit symapthy for Palestinians? And does Kiryat Ayumim sound like the name of an Arab hamlet? Oops. I just misspelled a word up there. Jump all over it, everyone. Good night.
Thank you for taking the time to format, you’re thoughtful.
Thanks, Eleutheria5 for taking the time to report this story to us, as it’s true...this isn’t what we see on TV or read about in MSM.
Sad state of affairs in the world these days.
“From your own article:
“and one of the men took off his boots and told the older boys to line up and each take a turn spreading. The boys whooped with excitement, and lined up, eagerly taking off their shoes.”
From your post 46:
“that’s why they were wearing boots.”
So which is it?”
One of the men took off his boots (after stepping onto dry land) and told the older boys to line up (to put on the boots he had taken off for the purpose)and each take turns spreading (with boots on, of course).
I didn’t look at your prior posts, I read the ‘article’ and it was not very clear who or what you were talking about.
At face value, it sounded like trollspam.
Now, if you like, you can ask the mods extremely nicely to edit the article body to put in the missing information.
Otherwise, you might just continue to get people reading your article and go, “What the!?”
Goodness, you have been trying to answer these peoples questions and all they can do is nit pick.
I am afraid that someday Israel will be abandoned by the US, and will appear to be left friendless. If it has not already happened, that is!
But I will say this. The God of Abraham is watching, and Israel is the apple of His eye.
I know you are, but what am I? I have seen it with my own eyes
That's how I read it.
That’s a zot-worthy answer if ever I saw one.
That’s not what was written, I quoted what was written.
Perhaps so, but for ten interim comments no one knew what your message was.
“At 3AM Some Jewish people were thrown out of their home by Jewish IDF Soldiers.
“Then some people got together and built them a new concrete foundation for a home and let children help spread the concrete.
“Then we watched a concert.”
Is that about right?
Your plot development needs improvement, the identification of the main characters is confusing and no resolution is given. Are the people still in friends homes? Did they build a new home on the concrete foundation? Why did the soldiers appear at 3AM? To apease Obama? How did you find a computer and know to go to FreeRepublic.com to post this info? AND are you a FR donor?
All these things are important to know.
Just trying to help. Your story is interesting, but judging from the comments there was a lot of confusion about what took place. Just trying to help, FRiend.
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