Grozny, Chechnya, 1995
Gideon Levy is reporting the Gaza conflict from Israel’s Negev region. He is eager to emphasize that the threat posed by the Hamas rocket attacks is overblown (“This is no Second Lebanon War, to judge by a visit to southern Israel Thursday. Life carries on somehow, no cities have been abandoned and so far the fatalities are in single digits”) but that’s not surprising. What struck me is that he apparently didn’t grasp the meaning of the following conversation with two immigrants from the Caucasus who are now in Sderot.
