| Of Life in Gush Katif - Scene 7 |
| In the bus with neighbors on the way to Jerusalem.
Mr. Cohen: "So, my friends, we're going to be dropped off in hotels in Jerusalem, eh?" Mrs. Cohen: "I always did want to live in Jerusalem, but I couldn't afford it. Now I get ten free days in a Jerusalem hotel in exchange for my house!" Chuckling in the bus Tamar: "Goodness, what black humor!" Mr. Hofman: "Only way to deal with it, dear. You're young; you don't know yet how difficult life can be. We have the choice to either laugh � or cry. So we laugh! And we cry a little too." Tamar: "But you've just been thrown from your home, and by Jewish soldiers whose job is to protect you!" Mr. Hofman: "Ah, but when I was your age, we didn't even have a Jewish army! So this is still progress � compared to then." Tamar: "Where will I go to school, mother?" Mother: "How do I know?! I don't even know where we'll live when our 10 free hotel days are up!" Father: "Dear, calm down. Courage! Hashem will provide." Bus Driver: "We've just passed Kissufim." (Junction leading out of the Gush) Everyone in the bus tears their shirt in mourning. Tamar: speaks softly. "That's it. We've left the Gush. Who knows when we'll return?" |