一封来自战火中的以色列平民的电子邮件

丹奇

 （2008年12月31日凌晨零点24分）

这是我的一个希拉里竞选伙伴DANA GUEFEN 今天发给我的电子邮件。她转发的是他的朋友马克从战火中的以色列防空洞里发出的电子邮件，真实地再现了目前巴以之间战火的现状。我全文翻译此信，并把英文原稿附在后面。

谨以此献给世界上热爱和平的人们，衷心希望2009不再战火纷飞。

以下为译文：

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 请看我的一个朋友马克今天的评论。 马克与我一起在中西部长大。他现在和他的妻子伽利特及三个孩子住在以色列阿什科龙。 

 我想，他的话，对象你我这些不但致力于推动有效的政府改变，而且极度致力于帮着别人的人们来说，为我们打开了一扇门，让我们了解今天许多像他的家庭一样的人家是如何在持久的火箭筒袭击和其他安全问题下生活的。

照片，可能的话，我认为并不能传递下面所述的

 电邮来自： 马克嘎斯

电邮发出时间：2008年12月29日中部时间下午一点四十四分零一秒

电邮主题：战火下的阿什科隆生日

序章：

 十二月二十九日星期一上午九点二十二分 

正当我准备按下发送键送出下面的电子邮件时，警报响了。我想回忆过去的那分钟都有点糊涂了。我冲出防空洞（也是电脑间）去起居室把一个四岁和一个五岁的儿子们弄到防空洞里去，然后慌忙跑上楼去找小婴儿，他这会应该和伽利特在床上。伽利特开始往楼下跑，边大喊 “宝宝在哪里？”于是，我才反应过来，宝宝还在楼下他的玩盘里。我赶紧又跑下楼-一把抱起宝宝，跑进防空洞。伽利特动作不如我快，所以，她还没来及进到防空洞，我们就听到了一声巨响。我们大概只有二十秒，我想，可能更少时间让你尽力而为。我们的目标是首先得保证孩子们进防空洞。就在巨响后，伽利特的嫂嫂打来了电话，说这次离她们家好近好近，因为她们从防空洞里感觉到了。阿什科隆战火下新的一天又开始了。 

回放： 

十二月二十九日星期一上午八点半，阿什可隆，  

我只是想让你们那些打来电话，发来邮件（以及那些主动提出让我们去他们在北边的家里去的人们）以及那些关注我们状况如何的消息的朋友们知道我们在这里基本上没问题。当然，我们最近不得不多次冲向防空洞（或当我们正开着车而警报响了时，干脆抱着宝宝和所有孩子们一起卧倒在地上）。我们已经把孩子们的床移到防空洞里了。因为十五秒到二十秒不够我们在半夜里吧他们抱起来跑下楼冲进防空洞。这些已经不是什么新鲜事了。而这正是问题所在。举个例子，一个月前，我们参加我的一个侄子的生日派对，就在阿什科隆 （在所谓的“停火”期间）。那时随着警报响过接着就是一枚火箭筒射在镇子的南边，我们有二十二个人不得不敢快挤进防空洞。下面的录像链接拍下了恐慌开始时每个人（包括婴儿们）争抢的情景( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I03UsaNicyA )。我的姐夫当时正在给生日派对摄像，当他开始跑时，摄像机还在录像。我从生日录像里摘取了最相关的一些片段。

从一个月前就开始的这种袭击这次只是其中的一次，最终导致了以色列作出一劳永逸解决问题的决定，试图把安宁带给其南部社区（铸铅行动）。这是一个早就应该做的决定，特别是对住在斯德洛特的居民来讲。他们每天生活在火箭筒的袭击中，这种日子过了八年了。这些袭击造成多人死伤（十四人死，数百上千人重伤），房屋和财产的严重毁损。同时，我们不要忘记以色列2005年就从加沙全部撤军，结果导致从加沙地带发射火箭炮的频率增加。我们在阿什可隆算相对来说是面对这些恐怖活动的新住户，因为我们去年三月才开始进入火箭炮的射程之内。因此加沙的哈马斯在“停火”期间的所作作为并不出人意料之外---他们堆积射程更远的武器因为他们的火箭炮现在可以到达阿什多德了（这是阿什科隆北边的下一个大镇），昨天就有数枚火箭炮射在那里。

诚然，哈马斯和其他巴勒斯坦激进组织不分青红皂白的用火箭炮袭击以色列南部地区时“还没有”成功地杀害 “大量”的以色列人。所以以色列的批评者说这次战斗是片面的，并要求以色列必须停战。 但是，对巴勒斯坦人应该从“动机”而不是“结果”来做评价。发射每一颗火箭炮的目的都是为了杀人。假如一颗火箭弹刚好落在一群人当中那它就可以杀死每一个在场的人---我们在2006年已经看到这样的情景发生，一枚火箭弹杀死了十二个人，另一枚杀死了八个 （这是与落在阿什可隆的火箭弹一样大小）。想想潜在的死亡人数吧，因为哈马斯在继续把这些玩意不断的射向阿什科隆和阿什多德人口密集的地区，结果将是你不寒而栗。

底线就是，那些想帮助以色列的人需要竭尽全力确保美国和其他国家不要开始对以色列施加压力，而是让以色列把手头的工作做完。否则，这个故事会再次重复，唯独导弹会越来越大，射程越来越远，最终结果是南部的哈马斯将到达北边的赫兹布拉的军事边界，以色列所有的公民基本上从南到北都会在火箭炮的轰炸。对斯德洛特来说，结果会是同样。为了那两万勇敢的人们，八年的火箭袭击已经够了。这必须停止，只有以色列军队可以阻止他。 

我想去年三月我写的博客今天依然有关，如果你想从我家的观点重温这场冲突的历史的话，http://ashkelon-under-fire.blogspot.com/自从我们搬进一个更大的房子后安全问题当时与现在基本相同，现在要跑到防空洞要花更多的额时间。

我们祝你节日快乐，新年幸福！ 

马克，伽利特，尤德及亚哈夫

后记： 

现在是上午十点十三分，警报响了。我们在上午十点有过一次警报，那时，我们都进来防空洞。然后另一次是在上午十点零七分。我们准备就在这里宿营了。跑进跑出实在不值得。这最后一次，我找了个机会，把铁窗户打开了两秒钟，终于把亚哈夫的拉了大便的尿不湿扔出去。我们试图通过爆炸的声响确定离我们多近。到今天上午为止，离我家不会近过一英里。令人伤心的坏消息是那枚上午九点二十二分落在阿什科隆的格拉德（喀秋莎）火箭炮杀死了一名正在建造一个图书馆的建筑工人，炸伤十三个其他人。具有讽刺意义的是，这个被他们杀死的人是个以色列阿拉伯人。这就表明了他们是不分青红皂白地袭击我们的平民， 与之相反，以色列军队却极其努力地只是打击他们的军事目标，而哈马斯却巧妙地混入加沙的平民之中。

英文原稿：

From: 为保护隐私略去

Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 4:28 PM
To:
Subject: Fwd: Ashkelon Birthday under Fire

Please find comments for today from a friend of mine, Marc A. whom I grew up with in the mid-west and who lives in Ashkelon, Israel with his wife Galit and 3 children.

I think his words, for those of us like you and I who are not only committed

to effective Governmental changes, but also very much committed to

helping people, opens the door to understanding what a family\'s life

is really like when enduring Rocket Attacks or other Security issues

as he and his family as so many others are today. 

Pictures, when possible, do not convey the below I think.

From: 略去

Sent: 12/29/2008 1:44:01 P.M. Central Standard Time
Subj: Ashkelon Birthday under Fire

Prologue:  
9:22 am Monday morning December 29th
Just as I was getting ready to hit the send button on the email below, the sirens came on.   Its kind of a blur as I try to recall the past minute.  I rush out from the shelter (also the computer room) to get the boys from the living room (4 and 5) into the shelter, and then I run upstairs in a panic to get the baby who should be in bed with Galit.   Galit starts running down and shouts \"where is the baby\", and then I remember that the baby was downstairs in his playpen, so I\'m running back down - grab the baby and run into the shelter.     Galit isn\'t as fast down the stairs as I am, so she doesn\'t make it into the shelter before we hear the loud boom.    Maybe we have 20 seconds, I think less - you do the best you can.    Our goal is to first make sure the kids are inside the shelter.   Right after the boom, Galit\'s sister-in-law calls and says it was very very close to their home, as they felt it from inside of their shelter.    Another day in Ashkelon under fire begins.

Backing up . . .

8:30 am Monday December 29th - Ashkelon:
I just wanted to let those of you that have called and sent emails (and those that have offered us to come to their homes in the north), and those that are following the news and wondering how we are doing that we are basically okay here.   Of course we have had to dash in to the shelter room many times lately (or just hit the ground with baby and all the kids when we are driving in the car and the sirens go off).    We have moved the kids beds into shelter room, as 15-20 seconds is not enough time to pick them up and run down the stairs in the middle of the night.    But this is nothing new, and thats really the point.   As an example, we were at my nephew\'s first birthday party about a month ago here in Ashkelon (during the so called \"cease fire\"), and there was a warning siren followed by a rocket landing in the south of town, and 22 of us had to quickly pack in to the shelter room.    The linked video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I03UsaNicyA ) captures just the beginning of the panic that sets in as everyone (babies included) starts to scramble.    My brother-in-law was making a video of the birthday party and it continued to record when he started to run.    I pulled a few short clips out of the birthday video that are most relevant.


This attack from a month back is just one of the events that finally led to Israel\'s decision to once and for all take steps to bring quiet to its southern communities (Operation Solid Lead).   A decision long overdue, especially in the eyes of the residents of Sderot, who have been living with daily rocket attacks on their town for almost eight years, many of those attacks causing death and injuries (fourteen dead and hundreds seriously wounded) with significant destruction of homes and property.   And lets not forget Israel\'s total withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, which only led to an increasing pace of rocket fire from Gaza.  We in Ashkelon are relative newcomers to this terror as we only entered rocket range starting last March.    And its no surprise what Hamas in Gaza has been doing during the \"cease fire\" - stockpiling even longer range weapons as their rockets are now capable of reaching Ashdod (the next big town north of Ashkelon), with several landing there yesterday.  


Its true that Hamas and other militant Palestinian groups in Gaza have not \"yet\" succeeded to kill \"huge\" numbers of Israelis with their indiscriminate rocket fire into southern Israel, so Israel\'s critics will say this battle is too lopsided and Israel must stop its operation.     But the Palestinians need to be judged by \"intent\" and not \"results\".     Every single rocket is meant to kill.    If a rocket lands in the middle of a group it will kill every single person there - we saw it happen in the north in 2006, with one rocket killing twelve people and another killing eight (the same size rockets as those landing in Ashkelon).    Consider the number of potential dead as Hamas continues to lob these things into the more populated areas such as Ashkelon and Ashdod, and you can understand the chilling consequences.


The bottom line is that those who want to help Israel need to do all they can to make sure that the US and others don\'t start pressuring Israel to stop before Israel finishes the job.    Otherwise, this story will just be repeated again, only the missiles will keep getting larger and longer range, and eventually, Hamas in the south will reach the military level of Hizbullah in the north, with all of Israel\'s citizens potentially coming under rocket barrage from both north and south.    But for Sderot, it will just be more of the same.   For the sake of those 20,000 brave people, eight years of rocket attacks is enough.   This must stop, and only Israel\'s military can stop it.

I think the blog I wrote last March is still relevant today if you want to review the history of this conflict from my family\'s perspective:    http://ashkelon-under-fire.blogspot.com/
The security situation is essentially the same for us as it was then although since we moved into a larger house, it takes more time to get to the shelter.

We hope your holidays were enjoyable and wish you a Happy New Year.
Marc, Galit, Ishai, Yoad and Yahav.

Epilogue:
Its now 10:13am and a siren is going off.   We had a siren about 10:00am, and that time we all made it into shelter room.   Then another at 10:07am.   We are just going to camp out here for a while, its not worth the running in and out.   After this last one, I took the chance and opened the metal window for two seconds to finally toss out Yahav\'s poopy diaper.  We try to decide how close the impacts are by the loudness of the booms.   So far this morning nothing has been closer than a mile to our home.       The bad and sad news is that the Grad (Katyusha) rocket that hit Ashkelon at 9:22am killed a construction worker at a library that is being built, and injured 13 others.    Its ironic that the worker they killed was an Israeli Arab, and it just shows how indiscriminate their attacks on our civilian population are, versus the huge effort the Israeli army makes at hitting only specific military oriented targets, which Hamas by design weave into Gaza\'s civilian population. 

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