Tears

As I watch the footage from Neve Dekalim in real time, tears stream down my face. For everyone. For these settlers, who are clearly full of so much pain at having to evacuate their lives. But I have cried many tears for the people being evacuated. Today most of my pain is for the soldiers. Many of these chayalim are teens themselves. And here they are, gently removing one protester at a time from the human chains, gingerly detangling the tallis one was wearing so that it could be reunited with its owner, all while listening to chants of "Lo Megaresh Yehudi Yehudi!" (a Jew does not expel a Jew). In any other place and time, the law enforcement would be breaking out the batons, the tear gas canisters. In what other country could a protester push a policeman, or attempt to pull off parts of their uniforms, as is occuring here, without getting beaten, or at the very least, arrested? In what other country would every law enforcement official who walks in to evacuate protesters engaged in civil disobedience be completely unarmed? I'm crying for the soldiers' tears that will probably come later.

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