Siro goes to disengage in Gaza

[Eli]

And I started looking for you on TV when I heard that all bahad 1 arrived in Gaza...

[Seeker]

You'll be worshipped as a Living God here if you shout out "Apolyton!" while getting egged by infilrators on global TV.

[Sirotnikov]

update:

i'm back at home
and on sunday, 21st of august I will report to Gaza
apparently to Peat Sade settlement, in the north of Gush Katif.

I don't know whether I will be removing settlers or just guarding roadblocks yet.

[Winston]

Again Siro, props to you for being part of this not very pleasant, but I think necessary, operation. And continue to take good care of yourself.

The steady news about the settlers resisting and all of the emotion involved in this is very sad to me, I just hope it will be over soon and people will be able to leave that part of their lives behind them.

[Alexander's Horse]

Give one of those settlers a kick in the balls from horsie.

[Sava]

uhmmm like, don't die and stuff

[Theben]

Dont die and dont kill anyone.

[Sava]

nah...

feel free to kill people

[Edan]

Originally posted by Sirotnikov
update:

i'm back at home
and on sunday, 21st of august I will report to Gaza
apparently to Peat Sade settlement, in the north of Gush Katif.

I don't know whether I will be removing settlers or just guarding roadblocks yet.

Apparently, not removing settlers:

Pe'at Sadeh - Evacuated, Tuesday

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/613800.html

[Kuciwalker]

[Edan]

BTW, apparently about 80% of the settlers and 16 of the 21 settlements have been evacuated

[Sirotnikov]

disengagement is over. totally.

on sunday I was in the Gaza strip and guarded a small settlement called "Bdollah" (crystal in hebrew).

We guarded the homes and the town perimeter from infiltration from settlers and from looting. There was little to none of both.

We left the strip 24 hours later.

I personally with the help of a few people helped a family pack its stuff and move. They were really nice. Somewhat bitter, but really didn't try to pull the empathy card.

While most of the homes we saw there were relatively small, several (including the one I helped pack) were really big and nice.


Generally seeing the strip in first hand was amazing. It is such a lovely place, but very small and packed.

Seeing the illogical mingling between Israeli settlements and Palestinian towns or camps and then Israeli pillboxes is really wierd, and mind boggling.

The place is so ****ing small and overblown on maps or on TV. Most of the places are smaller than my neighbourhood. If you take a piss in one area, there's a a practical chance your wee will cross several borderlines on its way, and land under another administration.

That is not a logical way to coexist. Its too small.

But some areas there are terribly pretty, and the amount of money and work poured in by the Israelis there was huge, and it is a shame it is wasted now.

If there was some logical way to merge some of the areas into Israel proper, possibly in a future agreement, I would be all for, but that seemes highly unlikely.

It is a shame people had to leave areas some of which (though little of them) were populated by their forefathers in the early early years of the 20th century, before the explosion of population in Gaza.


For the future, I hope the palestinian demography won't eventually 'force' us out of more land, including what is acknowledged internationally as 'israel proper'.


I am sorry I didn't take a larger part in the disengagement as it is something I eventually wanted to take part of and help with. Even though people who I know who did take part in the actual disengaging said it was no picnic and they hated every minute of it.

And I guess that helping 1 family is just as good as helping 100. I hope I left the best impression.

From now on the officers training course continues as usual.

Cadet Siro signing off.

When is Civ IV coming already???

[Sirotnikov]

disengagement is over. totally.

on sunday I was in the Gaza strip and guarded a small settlement called "Bdollah" (crystal in hebrew).

We guarded the homes and the town perimeter from infiltration from settlers and from looting. There was little to none of both.

We left the strip 24 hours later.

I personally with the help of a few people helped a family pack its stuff and move. They were really nice. Somewhat bitter, but really didn't try to pull the empathy card.

While most of the homes we saw there were relatively small, several (including the one I helped pack) were really big and nice.


Generally seeing the strip in first hand was amazing. It is such a lovely place, but very small and packed.

Seeing the illogical mingling between Israeli settlements and Palestinian towns or camps and then Israeli pillboxes is really wierd, and mind boggling.

The place is so ****ing small and overblown on maps or on TV. Most of the places are smaller than my neighbourhood. If you take a piss in one area, there's a a practical chance your wee will cross several borderlines on its way, and land under another administration.

That is not a logical way to coexist. Its too small.

But some areas there are terribly pretty, and the amount of money and work poured in by the Israelis there was huge, and it is a shame it is wasted now.

If there was some logical way to merge some of the areas into Israel proper, possibly in a future agreement, I would be all for, but that seemes highly unlikely.

It is a shame people had to leave areas some of which (though little of them) were populated by their forefathers in the early early years of the 20th century, before the explosion of population in Gaza.


For the future, I hope the palestinian demography won't eventually 'force' us out of more land, including what is acknowledged internationally as 'israel proper'.


I am sorry I didn't take a larger part in the disengagement as it is something I eventually wanted to take part of and help with. Even though people who I know who did take part in the actual disengaging said it was no picnic and they hated every minute of it.

And I guess that helping 1 family is just as good as helping 100. I hope I left the best impression.

From now on the officers training course continues as usual.

Cadet Siro signing off.

When is Civ IV coming already???

[lord of the mark]

kol hakavod to Cadet Siro.

[Spiffor]

When is Civ IV coming already???

November. Patience, patience, it's getting closer and closer

Only 70 days or so left