Read by a gentile.
"Now, life."
If someone knows how to choose life, it’s Eli.
I don't understand why it all happened.
Maybe I read the book to understand.
But the darkness of Hamas and Gaza society, makes me feel sick. I knew it was bad, but not this bad. Depraved. Brainwashed. Empty-minded. A cult of death, destruction and despair.
Eli was hostage in a cult.
He never became the monster, he overcame it, with extreme mind power and patience. Speaking to himself, reassuring himself. Eli, the survivor.
It's all about mind set. Adapting to the situation.
In the book, we get to know his captors. He and the other hostages nicknamed them. Since Eli speaks Arabic, he understood the captors, and could handle them easier than the others.
But I find myself not wanting to know. It’s so dark.
Maybe the hostages were taken, to bring light to the darkness. Now the world knows; now it has been unearthed.
I want to puke out Gaza and the captors and the lynching mobs.
I find relief in reading about Hersh and Ori, and more anxiety regarding Alon. May he come home now.
The Jews are a resilient people: Eli's testimony is evidence of that. I am not Jewish, I am Christian (sort of), and a witness. I need more books written by former hostages. I need to know; to see, what they’ve been though.
Beautiful review! Thank you. It made me want to read the book. I saw Eli in an interview. He’s such a strong, kind, and wise man. We can all learn from him.
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