hebrew → English transcript

Thank you for embracing us, thank you—what I said in combat.

My partner left me and froze.

Two bullets a year ago. I’m Rad Mizrahi.

Come, honor me, sure.

Do you want to speak, please?

Come, honor us.

Do you want to speak, please?

We have been sitting there four days.

And no one came to say hello.

Alive, dead—come see what I’ve taken.

Listen to us.

57 fighters are committing suicide.

No one here is committing suicide.

Every day someone commits suicide. Calm down, stop everything for a second.

My brothers are committing suicide, please.

It could be your grant, everyone’s grant.

It’s true there are things beyond the world,

but right now

the fighters come before everyone in the world

because we are heroes, living and dead.

Where are you? What are we asking for? Basic things.

You don’t come to hear us.

For God’s sake.

How can that be? How? How?

Just to say hello, kid.

You keep conducting yourselves as usual,

managing funds, moving funds,

passing laws,

and those who are most supposed to receive,

thanks to whom you sit here,

thanks to whom you have the right,

imagine the Meteorological Service issues an alert—

how do you act?

Everyone’s at the beach, really ordering

Piña coladas.

People are sitting here on the beach, in fifty-degree heat.

Not a single person leaves here.

One person! You’re shouting.

Justice! Justice!

What justice?

Who are you preaching to?

What are you doing here?

In Gaza there was no left or right.

Soldiers who fall are right and left.

Druze, Turk.

All the same.

How invisible we are out there.

If there were no legs left, wouldn’t you look at us differently?

You don’t understand what we’re going through.

The partner I had

The most hard-core combat soldier in the world ended up committing suicide.

Do you know what’s written on his grave?

“Fell in the line of duty.”

But if a soldier takes a real bullet,

and dies after eight months in hospitals,

it won’t say "Shaare Zedek".

it will say "Fell in battle, because he is a fighter."