| A little time off Milueem |
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.
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Good to see you are back, have always enjoyed this blog. Have a good week and see you back in May.
I found your site by chance.
I am 50 years old and a father of 4 and one of two Jewish families in my town Skövde in Sweden.
I understand that your reserve duty are tought but our thoughts are with you defending Israel in a time of increasing antisemitism in Sweden and Europe.
Thank you
Yours
Stefan
Be safe!
Shmor al aatsmecha. Just seen a report about de farms near the Lebanese border (they work their land +- 50 meters away from the watchpost of the Chizballah), and while filming this, the sound of explosions were heard from time to time?
Take care.
civax - come back safe!
jen
No Elite Coffee in your kit? We used to drink Elite. Well, it’s May, so I thought you’d be back. They blew out Salam’s internet system and that was the end of his blog– at least for a while. Meanwhile, did you know that Dan Gillmor is writing a book and some of it seems to be about Salam, so you should drop into his weblog and see if you feel like putting in your 2 cents.
http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/
ELITE COFFEE?!
In my company you’d be kicked in the ass for making coffee with Elite… Only Nah’le for us!
That or a herbs tea (herbs we gather at the field right before we make the tea. So they’re fresh.)
Hi Civax, just trolling ’round and saying "hi." Glad you are OK. I wish that Israel could just crush Hizballah’s balls, but that’s probably not realistic at the present time.