If you want to know what the people of Israel are thinking, go straight to the source: the taxi drivers. At the exact moment when our new president began his speech, our taxi driver, while speeding through narrow Jerusalem streets, turned the volume way up. "Nasee" (hebrew for President) Barack Obama began his inaugural speech with simultaneous hebrew translation. Our driver, like other Israelis are not convinced, as many members of the US media seem to be, that this Gaza campaign was timed to end before Nasee Obama took the oath of office.
As far as the parents of Israeli soldiers in Gaza who I have spoken to thusfar, there is a split in opinions between:
1. Thank God they are coming home.
2. Mission not accomplished; they are pulling out of Gaza too soon
Stay tuned from gorgeous sunny (slightly chilly) Jerusalem.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
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