Letter From a Recent Battleground

Short Story of a Short War: The Aftermath HELENA BLACK

We might not have known there was recently a war for survival if we hadn’t read about it in the American press. It was my brother Barry’s first trip to Israel and everything looked normal to him. But it was my third and after a while I could see subtle signs of the war. There were fewer young soldiers in the streets of Tel Aviv; the road to Jerusalem was crowded with Russian trucks, Jewish stars hastily painted over their Arab license plates; the price of gas had risen over 12 per cent, and there was a spirit of frantic patriotism.

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Short Story of a Short War: The Aftermath HELENA BLACK

We might not have known there was recently a war for survival if we hadn’t read about it in the American press. It was my brother Barry’s first trip to Israel and everything looked normal to him. But it was my third and after a while I could see subtle signs of the war. There were fewer young soldiers in the streets of Tel Aviv; the road to Jerusalem was crowded with Russian trucks, Jewish stars hastily painted over their Arab license plates; the price of gas had risen over 12 per cent, and there was a spirit of frantic patriotism.