“Iwant this war to end already” Moishe Neiman sighed stretching out on his bed for a short rest before the boys had to return to cheder in the afternoon.
“Soon.” Yossi was threading a new lace into his shoe to replace one that broke. “Abba says American troops took back Kuwait and crossed the border into Iraq. They’re on the outskirts of Baghdad already. It can’t be much longer.”
“So far all the missiles that fell in Israel had conventional warheads. Now that Saddam Hussein is cornered there’s a real danger he might become desperate enough to carry out his threat to use chemical weapons ” Shaul warned. “Even though the end is in sight we still need to concentrate on our kavanah when davening.”
“I’ll be so glad when it’s over” Naftali sighed from the floor where he was playing kugelach. “Then you boys will go back to learning in Jerusalem.”
