The Middle East Is Nuts

So in case you never turn the news on, I'm here to tell you that some shit has been going on very near to where I am stationed. North Camp is approximately 10 miles from Rafah, which is the most southern city in the Gaza Strip-- which is currently lobbing an insane amount of rockets into Israel. Isreal isn't taking this shit lying down, and it bombing the shit out of the Gaza Strip.

 

Shit.

Being so close, I get to hear it all like fireworks or... thunder. The bombing is constant. It was actually put quite perfectly by one of the guys I work with... this is the Israli dubstep remix to the everyday Egyptian fighting.

Now, I don't have a lot of political input on the situation. Mostly because the Middle East is always at war with everyone. It gets a bit confusing who hates who and why. All I do know, is that this isn't a very big surprise.

So how is this personally affecting my life at the MFO? Well, it's not really changing much. Just our mail has been stopped since it comes in through Tel Aviv and the boarders are currently closed between Egypt and Israel. So that sucks. Also, we can't ground medevac anyone to Isreal now... since those boarders are closed. We need to just keep our fingers crossed we don't have any reason to medevac and that the skies stay clear.

This morning I was walking to work and I could hear all kinds of explosions and gunfire in the distance. I didn't know if I was hearing the Isreal-Gaza Strip conflict or the Egyptian Army-Bedouin-Terrorist conflict. It's really anyone's guess. To me, it seems, the Egyptians are always fighting eachother. But once Isreal upped the ante and starting dropping literal bombs from the air, they just couldn't stand being one-upped.

"Oh I hear explosions," says anyone in Egypt who usually fights, "We must fire our tanks and small arms at one another to prove we are just as cool!"

 

I don't know what's more disturbing to me as a military service member: the fact that all this bombing and gunfire is going on and I'm not allowed to fight back as per the MFO peace treaty or the fact that all this bombing and gunfire is going on and I don't have a weapon with me at all times to fight back just in case!

These are just my thoughts on the situation. They're probably not important thoughts.

 

 

In other news, my mom sent me these rad sunglasses in the mail (which will probably be the last care package I will receive for a while). Can the Middle East just calm down a second so a girl can get some freaking mail!?