An American female college student occupies
not-so-strategic window seat on the #454 local
bus from Ramle on her way back to Tel Aviv-Yafo,
Sunday, early afternoon. Ipod in, and she breaks out
a pen and one of her assigned readings for her class
on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. The one reading
she happens to have brought with her is written by
a Palestinian about the war of 1948. A pacifist
preoccupied by the lack of rules of war, both then
and now.
On a bus stop alongside the highway somewhere
between Ramle and Tel Aviv-Yafo, the formerly
near-empty #454 bus becomes packed with soldiers
from various branches of the Israeli Defense Force.
An Israeli female wears her olive green uniform
with the cyan beret tucked under the left shoulder
strap of her shirt; and her pink leather shoulder-bag
says no way I’m just another G.I. Jane. And she
ends up sitting next to the American college student
and puts her ipod in and breaks out some reading
material of her own. We both cautiously eye the other’s
readings and the one word I picked up from scanning
her sheets of useful English-Hebrew translations was
“liberation”.
Molly Flynn (text)
Yossi Breger (photograph: "Roaring Lion, Tel Hai")
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