11.8.06

israeli phone call again

i am really late on my posts. i need to write about the last 3 days. but this more important and i shall write it first.

so... i was slackin on the bed, watching another useless ER episode, alone at home, and the phone rings. the phone is in lobby so i have to walk to it. the lobby is dark and i cant see anything. i have a feeling it could be the israelis again, so i look for the light switch, i find five, but none actually lights any lamp in the actual lobby. it's a reenactment of the switch episode of Friends.

i pick up the phone.
allo?
a silence, followed by a tlikik.
and a deep arabic voice, with a perfect oratory super eloquent tone, starts talking in the most monotonous rythmic fashion. he asks whether i, we, knew. whether anybody had told us, informed us before getting into that situation. he asks whether anybody had informed us of the power, force, strength of the —and i quote and translate—"mighty israeli defence force". he ends with sth to the effect of—i had trouble following his perfect adab-worthy sentences— not only did nasrallah gamble with his life and the life of his people but he did so with the lives of others too.
they hang up.
toooot toooooot tooooooot

thk u very much for filling me in, it's so nice to hear from you again. it brings great great warmth to my aching heart every fucking time you guys call. really.

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