This afternoon I had a meeting in Elon Moreh settlement in Northern Samaria, to verify on the site the advance of my water recycling project and to approve the payment of the contractor´s first bill. The work seems to be advancing, soon we shall have water for irrigation. Driving back to Kever Benjamin City, around 4 PM, about a km south of Elon Moreh and before the Hawara checkpost there was a barrier of big rocks aligned on the road, so I had to stop. This is the standard Palestinian terrorist trap, to forc e a car to stop in a selected place, and whan it tries to reverse, they start shooting from the road side. I was lucky, the road obstacle had been reported a minute before at Elon Moreh checkpost (I heard something but gave no imporance to it) and the security people from Elon Moreh arrived very fast and without a word they took up positions and cleared the road. Almost immediately arrived a military jeep and helped them to clear the stones. One kilometer ahead a roack check had been already improvised and the Army was stopping cars and registering the Palestinians. Thus did I escape possible death today in Samaria.
This is part of a pattern. Yesterday a resident of Kochav Hashahar was seriously wounded when a gunman opened fire on his car on the highway near the settlement. Moshe Avitan, who was driving at the time, suffered wounds to his face from the shooting. His wife took the wheel and drove to the community's security guard.
At the time of the attack, Avitan and his wife had been on their way home from the Shilo area.
4 comments:
My map places this north east of Nablus. Correct?
Glad you have kept body and soul together.
Anon.
Amazing. I've been reading your blog and have been surprised by how freely you travel into dangerous areas. I suppose it might help that you tend to be an optimist. Are there places you won't go?
Amazing. I've been reading your blog and have been surprised by how freely you travel into dangerous areas. I suppose it might help that you tend to be an optimist. Are there places you won't go?
Correct. Elon Moreh is North East from Nablus. To arrive I drive to the Tapuah Intersection. Till that point the road is fairly safe and well travelled. then I take North and pass through the Palestinian city of Hawarah. I dont know if it is dangerous, as the roadside is full of fruit vendors hawking things in Hebrew. Then comes the Hawarah Army checkpoint, with hundreds of taxis and buses and soldiers. From then the road is very solitary, it goes Northward, up to the Three Seas Outlook near Itamar, where one can see the Mountain of Benediction (Har Bracha) and Mount Anbal. Nablus is in the footsteps of this mountain, in a large valley. The road makes a large turn to avoid Nablus and then after a very solitary drive, through rocky mountains and green valleys, it is the green mountain top of Elon Moreh, with fragrant pine trees. This is the original homeland of the Jewish people, where Joshuah erected the first sacrificial altar. It is high and windy. It is our eternal home, the people I see are like a passing shadows, a miserable goatherd with ten famelic goats, a disharmonic cry from the minaret, a Sarracen with a turban from Mozart´s opera.
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