It takes months of hard work to grow a field of wheat.
First you plough the land. You level it and you add fertilizer. You sow your seeds, going up and down the field for days. You scare off the birds. You quickly hoist 3″ irrigation pipes into the field and water it so that it begins to germinate.
You pull out the pipes and wait, and pray for rain.
Sometimes, prayers are not enough and you have to pull lines of 3″ pipes through the field again, to make sure the seedlings do not die.
Months pass. Rain comes, and slowly your seedlings grow tall.
Then, finally, the grain ripens and you can harvest your crop. Unless.
Unless a “peaceful” palestinian protester “spontaneously” travels tens of kilometers from his home to the internationally recognized border, sets fire to a kite, and deliberately flies it into your ripe field of wheat.
And meanwhile, 30Km south of the field, truckloads of “humanitarian aid” flow by their hundreds into the Gaza strip carrying tons of flour so that the palestinian protester can eat well, and fly a new kite into the next field, tomorrow.
Jeremy Bear lived for more than a decade in a kibbutz on the Gaza border, irrigating the crops. He now lives in a small town in the Jerusalem foothills.
