Today's soldiers at the Western Wall.
On this date, June 5, the Six Day War started, back in 1967.
(I still lived in Chicago then; I made aliyah to Israel nine months after.)
On the national level so much has changed in those 48 years -- and yet so little.
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So much has changed in this 5 decade time, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteSix days that changed the Middle East forever...
ReplyDeleteI had done my Gap Year in Israel in 1966 and my parents were becoming very anxious by the time I got home in January 1967.
ReplyDeleteI know EXACTLY where I was when the Six Day War started :( Melbourne never has foggy conditions, but this particular winter we couldn't even drive the cars safely.
Quite a milestone.
ReplyDeleteWe've all lived about 5 lifetimes since then (if we were alive in 1967, that is). So many changes, but some things are still the same. No one can be oblivious about the Middle East these days, but I certainly was on June 5, 1967, a high school student looking forward to the last day of school and a blissful summer of freedom in my little home town on the Pacific Ocean in Southern California. Israel was not even on my radar screen in those days. Never could have guessed that 7 years later I'd be in Jerusalem on my 24th birthday on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land!
ReplyDeleteI always like to listen the song Where have all the flowers gone by Pete Seeger.
ReplyDeletePietro
I keep wishing for peace for you, Dina. How does one untangle the history, bitterness, etc. of the middle East?
ReplyDeleteNo, nothing seems to have changed. maybe only for the worse?
ReplyDeleteWow, to think you've been gone more years than you lived here. May you always feel safe. May WE always feel safe, wherever we are.
ReplyDeleteJanis
GDP
As long as humans are humans, nothing will ever change. Pessimistic, me? Maybe. Probably more realistic...
ReplyDelete'So much changes; yet so little'. It's story of war through the ages. We never learn.
ReplyDeleteWe can aiways hope for change and world peace, if only people would change their mind set.
ReplyDeleteAlice