קאווע שטיבל

This was written by my great nephew, Ezra Trachtman, who is to be conscripted into IDF this week.
His brother Josh is currently in Gaza.
We pray for the welfare of all the soldiers.

I write this poem in dedication to my brother Joshie, and all the brave soldiers of the IDF.


sit here at my keyboard / to pen these simple thoughts
Unlock them from my word hoard / to perchance connect the dots

As rockets now fall screaming / throughout my lovely land
Like a nightmare that I’m dreaming / it’s more then I can stand

Our children hide beset by fears / in shelters they must wait
Their faces soaked in frightened tears / as they think about their fate

Our people sit to cry and pray / for safety and for peace
That battle it may end today / that fighting soon will cease

Our soldiers bravely dying / to protect our little ones
And we’re all sadly crying / for our husbands, brothers, sons

In Azza, hundreds martyred / their blood all spilled in vain
For their lives Hamas has bartered / to protect their terror reign

They place bunkers in a dwelling / masques, hospitals and schools
Their fallen numbers swelling / to deceive the nations fools

And the world still calls us evil / a wicked Nazi state
Since we brought forth this upheaval / or so says all their prate

In armchair sits the critic / writing things he doesn’t know
With his thoughts Anti-Semitic / the lies he’d spread and sow

We send warning after warning / so people all can fly
Then we get there in the morning / in their traps our soldiers die

We send them aid and power / we get missiles in return
Yet for hour after hour / we’re told we act too stern

Whenever peace is offered / we run to make a truce
But when hands of peace are proffered / more rockets they produce

I could ramble on forever / on the problems that we face
But I fear that I will never / make fools believe my case

How we used to laugh and joke / at the things that people say
But as hatred’s flames they stoke / all the laughter dies away

רויטע וואנצעס האט געשריבן:הבה נגילה הבה נגילה ונשמחה...

ישמעאל הכהן האט געשריבן:A rather fair editorial in the NY Times

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/07/25/op ... -toll.html

A few Golani soldiers said this..- We captured and interrogated a few hamas tererorists. We asked them you built these tunnels for so long, how come you never used them to kidnap or kill israelis? One answered we were digging and building for 12!!!!years tons of tunnels that were 25 ft deep. We were preparing for 12 years and we were ready to use them on this coming rosh hashana. We had plans of going in 25-30 terrorists in each tunnel (they've found 40 so far)armed into israel on rosh hashana bc that is when the chayalim are off and there is less guards and all jews are in shul and there is a 2 day chag. We were planning on kidnapping women and men and spreading them in the tunnels and gaza so you can't bomb us or kill us. It would have been the end of israel, we would have taken over. All hamas terrorists were going to go in. And they were almost ready--only 2 months left!!this rosh hashana they were going to do this! And our war now saved our lives. E/o was wondering where their tefillos went when they davenned for the 3 boys--it went here!!it saved us! If not for them we never would have found the tunnels. Continue davenning
Scary !!