DaveS

This video still hits me every time I watch it. It’s one of the most moving and emotional videos of a live broadcast I’ve ever watched. Lucy Aharish, an Arab Israeli news anchor for Channel 13, in the days after October 7, with country still on fire, and yet she just switched into English mid-broadcast and talked to the world like this is her home. Because it is. She even apologized for doing it. “I’m sorry I’m using the microphone like this. As a journalist it’s the only weapon I have.” Then she said OUR beloved country is under attack. Hamas is a terror organization. Not a government. Not a leadership. They murdered babies and children and old people and women and men in their beds. Kidnapped them. They fired rockets at civilians. She didn’t spend one second making the story about being Arab. She said WE. Left, right, religious, secular, Jews, Christians, Druze, Muslims, people who came from everywhere. It’s the same fight. OUR lives. OUR kids. Yes Israel argues. Every country argues. That doesn’t mean we don’t protect this place. Then she went after the ones who still wouldn’t condemn it. “Imagine Saturday morning. Kids asleep next to you. Sirens. And suddenly some terrorist is in the house murdering your family in front of you. Can you imagine that? Look into our eyes. Stand with us.” A lot of people were very careful that week. But she wasn’t. And that’s why I still play it.