East of Nakba (4)

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(Arabic Version)

Jan, 2022

Part I. Israel bombs a nuclear plant in Iran

 

Chapter 4 Three little birds(1)

Three F35 stealth fighters took off the base before dawn. They crossed over Jordan and continued their flight over the border between Saudi Arabia and Iraq. The sun appeared on the horizon and the Negev desert below was lighten up. The up and down of the surface of desert created shadows like wave. The shadow contrasted with the reddish-brown sands brilliantly. The scenery has never changed for millions of years. It was a familiar scenery for pilots of commercial flights connecting Europe and Dubai. But the young jet pilots who were carrying out the mission was looking at the scenery below with fever. The three little birds continued to fly eastward under the fine blue sky and above the dry desert.

 

They were selected pilot of the Israeli Air Force. They were different each other in their skin color, ancestors and background. But all of them had strong faith to protect their homeland. They call each other by nickname. The top of formation was called "Elite". The second of the right wing was called "Mafia". And the third pilot of the left wing was "Abdullah".

 

Just by hearing these nicknames, an ordinary Israeli can easily find out the origin of each pilot. The father of the "elite" was a hero of the Israeli Independence War in 1949. Then he became an air force pilot, and he shot down many USSR-made Mig jet fighters of Egyptian and Syrian air force during the three Middle East wars in 1956, 1967 and 1973. In 1991 he was appointed the Air Force commander and supervised “the Operation Solomon”. Operation Solomon was an unprecedented operation to transfer 10,000 Jews isolated in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, to Israel during the Ethiopian Civil War. The operation code name was after the ancient history of "Solomon and the Queen of Sheba". He was promoted to the rank of general and still keep a prominent position as a government and military advisor.

 

The "elite" was an Ashkenazi. Ashkenazi is a Jew who originally lived in Germany. His father and grandfather were sent to Nazi concentration camps. His grandfather died in the Holocaust. His father was also destined to be sent to the gas chamber, but the war was over. He was rescued from the concentration camp when he was young. He emigrated to Israel in a Zionist movement aimed to establish Jewish homeland. He got acquainted with the same Ashkenazi woman there and "elite" was born.

 

Ashkenazi was the founding member of Israel, which is made up of migrants of various races and nationalities. In particular, the family of "elite" was an superior upper class called WASP. Generally speaking, WASP is synonymous with establishment on the east coast of the United States, so-called "White (W), Anglo (A), Saxon (S), Protestant (P)". But here in Israel WASP means White (W), Ashkenazi(A), Sabra (S) and Protexia (P). Sabra means the first settlers in Israel, like the immigrant families who landed in the United States on the Mayflower. Protexia means the people who has good connections.

 

He is called an "elite" by his fellow because he has such a splendid genealogy and good connections.

 

(cont’d)

Areha Kazuya