A world we didn’t know before…

…A world that will never be the same, if only because the world would never support the aggressor and condemn the victim.

The war in Syria, Afghanistan, Chechnya… where innocent children died en masse, where there was a world with its own opinion and ambitions of a guardian of order and justice?

The world was not interested in these children, but the world cares about the children of the Gaza Strip, whom Israel evacuated along with «civilians», if it could be called civilians: people who broke into Israel with Hamas militants on October 7, looted houses, killed children, animals, took Israelis hostage, not only living people but also the corpses of the murdered Israelis.

Who continue to hold Israeli hostages in their homes…
But in the «new world» they say about the Palestinians «either well or nothing»
And they use it!

So in Russia, where Palestinian refugees arrived, a series of rapes swept through St. Petersburg, as a result, the rapist was caught, it turned out that a Palestinian refugee attacked women, now he is arrested, he faces a prison sentence… In the near future, the leadership of the Russian Federation has approved the admission of another 43,000 Palestinian refugees.

Because now you can talk about the Palestinians either well or not at all…
…I wonder what the world thinks, namely those who rush to visit Jerusalem, walk through its holy places and hate Israel?
…I wonder what the world is thinking, kneeling for centuries before a Jew and his Jewish mother, offering prayers to Jesus and the Virgin Mary and hating Jews? Forgetting that the place where Jesus lived and was born was once the territory of Israel, and now there are Palestinian cities where Jews are prohibited from entering.

Knowing this and realizing it, the Palestinians rush to erase the name of Jesus, saying that he was a Palestinian, and someone says that he did not exist at all…
Time will tell whether they will be able to rewrite history.
In the meantime, we are waiting for the world to wake up, if it wakes up at all!

Today my guest is a resident of the north of the country, from the frontline town of Kiryat Shmona, he will tell you about what is happening in his hometown and how the evacuees live.
My guest: photographer, blogger, author of TG and public figure – Alex Gainer.

OCTOBER 7TH

On the morning of October 7, I was at home in Kiryat Shmon, my son sent me a video about what was happening in the south of the country, at first I thought it was just a terrorist attack, but by the middle of the day, when more information began to arrive, from which it became clear that a disaster had occurred…and the hairs on my head stood on end.
Of course, residents of Kiryat Shmona had fears that this could happen again in our city, especially since for several years we heard some kind of underground noise, as if they were digging something, residents complained, wrote letters, demanded to check and sort it out…

Indeed, in 2018, the Idf discovered tunnels leading to Israeli territory from southern Lebanon. Hezbollah dug them in order to enter Israeli territory and carry out attacks on Israeli civilians and capture settlements.
The IDF launched Operation Northern Shield, the purpose of which was to neutralize the tunnels.
But I think it wasn’t enough.
I served in the IDF in Lebanon until 1998, and when Israeli troops were urgently withdrawn from southern Lebanon in 2000, I think it was a mistake.

THE SHELLING OF KIRYAT SHMONA

On October 19, the first mortar shells fell in Kiryat Shmona, then two wounded were announced, one was slightly wounded, the second was of moderate severity, the one who was of moderate severity was my father, he received a shrapnel wound to the head, an ambulance took him to the hospital in Safed, from there he was transferred to the Rambam hospital…
Now everything is fine with Dad, after discharge he also evacuated, but then he decided to return to Kiryat Shmona.

EVACUATION OF RESIDENTS OF THE NORTH

Residents of Kiryat Shmona began to prepare for evacuation after two residents were injured, including my father, 97% of the city’s residents have been evacuated from Kiryat Shmona to date. The evacuation was an emergency, and the services were not ready for it, confusion began. The Ministry of Tourism, which participated in the evacuation, provided one contact phone number to residents of a city with a population of 25,000 people to receive information, it is clear that they could not cope with so many calls, there were many complaints, as a result they connected an external company with 10 telephone lines that were supposed to distribute people, but There was also a lot of confusion due to the fact that many were leaving with animals, and the hotels that reported receiving people with animals did not accept people on arrival because they were with animals…

There was even a story with our deputy.the mayor, who went with his family to the hotel for evacuees, where a room was reserved for him, but when they arrived there, they were told from the doorstep that there were no places, and he and his family returned to Kiryat Shmona.
And only the next day he was able to find a place in the network of the Reshet Kinorot campaign, this campaign helped many families of evacuees by placing them in their guest houses, providing good conditions for people.
And when after that we heard that the residents of the north, in particular the residents of Kiryat Shmona, were humiliated at the Sheraton Grand Hotel in Tel Aviv: the hotel administration informed them that the evacuees could not have breakfast in the common room with the hotel guests, that the evacuees had been allocated an additional room on another floor…

And so in many places, because it was the summer season, tourists came, Israelis rented rooms as well, and here it must be understood that vacationers rent a room for several days, and evacuated people live in a hotel for almost a year and the hotel is actually their home.
They are there with their families, cats, dogs… they are starting to settle in, they are almost starting to walk around the hotel in their pajamas, because in their case, they are at home.
Everyone is shouting and making noise and naturally the staff, owners and guests do not like it. Plus, the state does not always transfer money on time for the accommodation of evacuees.

THERE IS NO TURNING BACK

I am still in touch with the evacuees from our city, they write to me, tell me what is happening to them, and we even conducted a survey on how many people will return to Kiryat Shmona after the war, it is clear that it was impossible to interview them all, but it is so. It is already clear that 63% will not return to Kiryat Shmona.
These are people of relatively young age, good professions, they discovered the center of the country as a place where it is relatively quiet, where you can earn more, where there are more options for different jobs…
And then, many people have already lost hope that they will ever be able to return.
Those who lived on a rental basis, who do not have their own housing, do not want to return. Apartment owners who are paying off their mortgages are still hoping to return to their homes.
Apoalim Bank went to a meeting and wrote off a mortgage payment for 3 months for evacuees who own real estate in the north of the country.

JESUS CHRIST AS AN OCCUPIER

Sane people understand perfectly well where the truth lies.
Stupid people, especially those who don’t know history, are easier to manage.
The Christian world, believing in Jesus, does not want to admit that Jesus Christ was a Jew, that he was born in a city where many now believe that this is Palestinian territory, but according to history, these were Israeli lands, Jews lived there, but they do not want to see these facts.
The media is also very important here.
Social networks, especially if the information being sent comes from Arabs, who in a matter of hours, thanks to social networks, can gather people for rallies…
If we take Dagestan into account, then all cases of anti-Semitism there are associated with the sending of false information on social networks, WhatsApp, people are heated up and they take to the streets…
You should always look at who benefits from it!

ABOUT VALUES AND PRIORITIES

I am a person who has always thought about the meaning of life, I have always told people: «You need to live for today, because what happened yesterday cannot be changed, and what will happen in the future has not happened yet.
You need to live for today: take care of your health, take care of your loved ones, be with your loved ones as much as possible, because at any moment they may not be around!
My priorities are to be honest with yourself, because if you are honest with yourself, then you will be honest with others.

Photo: Alex Gainer