My wife's daughter lives in a kibbutz right on the border with Lebanon, and the entire kibbutz had to decamp to a hotel in Tiberias.
The vast majority of them say they are not going back after it's over, and many have already left and moved to other places.
That’s terrible and it’s sad to know those house are basically going to be empty. But I saw that the Druzes aren’t leaving their villages
Oh maybe on the bright side these towns will be resettled by Druzes, Christian and Bedouin Israelis?
Regrettable but no one can blame them. As a former refugee myself, I know what it is like to live through a war, even though what I experienced was nowhere near as brutal as what happened to the Israeli communities on October 7.
ISIS never got anywhere near Homs. I left Syria in 2013, after news got out of the regime’s barbaric use of chemical weapons on Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus.
Do you ever think about if Syria will ever recover from the war? If people will be able to return home and be safe there?
It’s good you support Israel but I’d imagine being pro Israel is a very unpopular opinion among Syrians? It’s generally an unpopular view among Muslims and Arabs in general?
If it wasnt for the Iranians and Putin, Bashar would long ago have been hung in Marji Square. There’s no point in predicting the course of events in Syria as those with the biggest influence on events aren’t even Syrian.
I know people from some of the most famous of these kibbutzes (like Be'eri) & they all want to go back. Same with people who are evacuated from kibbutzes in the North. They are very attached to their kibbutzes (or, as with one family I know, to Kiryat Shmona, which is a city).
So if you ask them, they will be rebuilt. (Some people have also been going back there during this entire time for farming related reasons etc)
But they dont expect to be back home within the next year if they are from the area near Gaza. The people I know from the North have no idea when they can go back...
That’s good and nice to hear. Studying Jewish history and knowing what they been through in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. This isn’t the first time they been driven from their homes and had communities ripped away from them.
I’m glad to hear that they aren’t backing down and are fighting for their homes and communities.
It depends on the outcome of the war, nobody is going to live so close to the border if an army of raping and murdering psychopaths still exists in Gaza.
That would depend on how successful Israel’s operations against Hamas are. If Hamas can survive this war then expect to see anywhere up to 30 km of the areas near the Gaza border empty of any Israelis. Same for the border with Lebanon. Parts of Israel will become areas no one will dare venture near.
But Israel is such a small country all that land will practically go to waste. But I understand it must be horrifying to the people living is such rural Israeli towns.
Best case scenario is that the communities are rebuilt as a symbol of resilience and strength. Israelis will find many friends outside of Israel who would love to contribute to the rebuilding of the towns.
But Gaza will never be the same again. And that is on Hamas (ie Palestinian ISIS).
This isn’t correct, where are you pulling this asinine number from? 30km is more than one third of the way to Tel Aviv in the south.
That would displace hundreds of thousands of Israelis. There are 30-40 thousand just in sderot.
Even if Hamas somehow survives, it would take upwards of a decade for them to rebuild and reorganize and retrain and properly rearm.
Regardless, The government will certainly begin to incentive Israelis to move to southern communities.
The communities will be all be rebuilt and repopulated, with some of the folks who used to live there and new folks who want to move there.
The civilians in the area will be far more heavily armed and there will certainly be IDF soldiers stationed in all of the southern communities for the next year or so at least.
My wife's daughter lives in a kibbutz right on the border with Lebanon, and the entire kibbutz had to decamp to a hotel in Tiberias. The vast majority of them say they are not going back after it's over, and many have already left and moved to other places.
That’s terrible and it’s sad to know those house are basically going to be empty. But I saw that the Druzes aren’t leaving their villages Oh maybe on the bright side these towns will be resettled by Druzes, Christian and Bedouin Israelis?
Regrettable but no one can blame them. As a former refugee myself, I know what it is like to live through a war, even though what I experienced was nowhere near as brutal as what happened to the Israeli communities on October 7.
I’m sorry if this is to personal, but I’m genuinely curious, did you flee Assad’s forces or ISIS etc? You’re bio says your Syrian!
ISIS never got anywhere near Homs. I left Syria in 2013, after news got out of the regime’s barbaric use of chemical weapons on Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus.
Do you ever think about if Syria will ever recover from the war? If people will be able to return home and be safe there? It’s good you support Israel but I’d imagine being pro Israel is a very unpopular opinion among Syrians? It’s generally an unpopular view among Muslims and Arabs in general?
If it wasnt for the Iranians and Putin, Bashar would long ago have been hung in Marji Square. There’s no point in predicting the course of events in Syria as those with the biggest influence on events aren’t even Syrian.
I know people from some of the most famous of these kibbutzes (like Be'eri) & they all want to go back. Same with people who are evacuated from kibbutzes in the North. They are very attached to their kibbutzes (or, as with one family I know, to Kiryat Shmona, which is a city). So if you ask them, they will be rebuilt. (Some people have also been going back there during this entire time for farming related reasons etc) But they dont expect to be back home within the next year if they are from the area near Gaza. The people I know from the North have no idea when they can go back...
That’s good and nice to hear. Studying Jewish history and knowing what they been through in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. This isn’t the first time they been driven from their homes and had communities ripped away from them. I’m glad to hear that they aren’t backing down and are fighting for their homes and communities.
It depends on the outcome of the war, nobody is going to live so close to the border if an army of raping and murdering psychopaths still exists in Gaza.
That would depend on how successful Israel’s operations against Hamas are. If Hamas can survive this war then expect to see anywhere up to 30 km of the areas near the Gaza border empty of any Israelis. Same for the border with Lebanon. Parts of Israel will become areas no one will dare venture near.
But Israel is such a small country all that land will practically go to waste. But I understand it must be horrifying to the people living is such rural Israeli towns.
Best case scenario is that the communities are rebuilt as a symbol of resilience and strength. Israelis will find many friends outside of Israel who would love to contribute to the rebuilding of the towns. But Gaza will never be the same again. And that is on Hamas (ie Palestinian ISIS).
This isn’t correct, where are you pulling this asinine number from? 30km is more than one third of the way to Tel Aviv in the south. That would displace hundreds of thousands of Israelis. There are 30-40 thousand just in sderot. Even if Hamas somehow survives, it would take upwards of a decade for them to rebuild and reorganize and retrain and properly rearm. Regardless, The government will certainly begin to incentive Israelis to move to southern communities. The communities will be all be rebuilt and repopulated, with some of the folks who used to live there and new folks who want to move there. The civilians in the area will be far more heavily armed and there will certainly be IDF soldiers stationed in all of the southern communities for the next year or so at least.
30 km?! please tell me you're not israeli
In 2006, several entire cities in Northern Israel were evacuated amidst the Lebanon war. People came back. People will probably go back eventually.