Tyger_purr opened this issue on Aug 24, 2006 · 26 posts
dphoadley posted Thu, 24 August 2006 at 11:09 AM
No, I line in Bat-Yam, a suburb city directly south of Tel-Aviv-Jaffa. I have however experienced a bomb blow up a 100 feet or so in front on me. It's shock wave was like a wall of pure elemental roaring sond bowling into me. Three people were killed, but I escaped unscathed except for a ringing in my ears.
Several years before that, I witnessed the terrorist attack on the Savoy Hotel in Tel-Aviv (1975). The most strange experience I had was when I returned to work in a furniture factory after a months reserve duty in the IDF. I'd been stationed at the Ketziot Nitzana Internment camp, south of Gaza and situated on the Israel-Egyptian border. My duties were those of camp guard, making sure that the internees, most of whom came from Gaza, didn't get out of hand. I tried to maintain a correct posture, neither overly friendly notr severe. But the strange thing occured when I went back to work. Two thirds of my fellow workers were Arabs from Gaza, and more than a few greeted me by saying: "I saw you at Ketziot!"
Talk about nonplussed, that was I.