19 July 2006
Written by Rainer
Israeli kids sending “good will” messages to Lebanon
Israeli kids have discovered a new way to communicate with their pen-pals in Lebanon. Now that the countries diplomatic relationships are on the edge and the postal system isn’t working on 100% efficiency, the kids have started to sign the the one things that cross the border regardless of anything – the artillery shells.
The way messaging works nowadays is that when artillery or missile fire ceases the kids run to the drop zone to check if they have received response by going through the shell scraps left behind.
“They have told us in school that communication is crucial and I miss my friend, so we came up with a this idea” 9 year old Israeli boy Ehud explained, “Even though the message doesn’t always go to the right town, the message we send usually spreads to the whole nation and it usually reaches the targeted recipient at some point”, Ehud continues.
The Lebanese kids have also adopted the new era in cross border communication and the messages have been exchanged in the speed of sound through the last week.
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