In Israel: Sharon’s Dream and a Peace of the Arab Dead, Of Gavno and Freedom……..
“But now comes news of an even stranger honorary title. Israel's largest garbage dump—almost 600 million cubic feet of festering waste—has been renamed in honor of the country's favorite comatose warrior: Welcome to Ariel Sharon Park. But this isn't a slam, like San Francisco's ballot measure to rename a sewage treatment plant in "tribute" to George W. Bush. To the contrary, the landfill fulfills one of Sharon's fondest dreams……..Before it was called Ariel Sharon Park, the site was known as Hiriya, from the name of the Arab village that used to sit here. As a young platoon commander in 1948, Ariel Sharon was involved in the military operations that claimed the land for Israel. And although the word Hiriya in Hebrew is uncomfortably close to a slang term for feces—"go to Hiriya" is a common insult—the site is quickly shedding its negative connotations. Ariel Sharon himself has also been known by other names, including The Bulldozer. It's now beginning to seem possible that his most enduring legacy won't be razing Arab villages but building one of the world's largest and most peaceful urban oases…....”
Interesting story: a peaceful oasis, but over the land of a razed Arab village. That is more like the peace of the dead.
Ironically: Hiriya in Arab can mean freedom (usually Huriya). That other Hebrew hiriya means khara in Arabic (Xara if one is Russian and says it in Arabic). As in the real Russian 'gavno'.
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