

Dear Chinese people,
For a few days now, I've been wandering the streets of Tel Aviv imagining you in all the places I've been living with you in China since 2007.

But nothing today seems to be like yesterday. The streets in your cities are deserted, the museums and galleries are locked closed, the malls are empty, the trains are hollow. Clinics are filled with anxiety; hospitals in Wuhan are densely packed in horror.
New Year's holiday and the long-awaited family vacation anticipated all year have become a home curfew and a dejected despair that longs for the medicine, the pigeon that signals the fall in water level and that the end of the plague is approaching.
Western media broadcast what is happening to you from a selfishly focused perspective: how to limit the outbreak of illness outside your borders. How narrow and sad that they never stop the sequence of programs to go beyond the routine, to give you a voice and to send you words of encouragement and solidarity.

It is important to tell you: we look after your health, ask for your peace and support you from anywhere in the world!
As one would appeal to friends in distress, please tell us how can we help you.
Be strong and courageous!
With friendship and hope.

Shoshan and Michael Levitt
Feb.3rd.2020

亲爱的中国人民:
几天来,我一直在特拉维夫的街道上徘徊,想象着自2007年以来和我在中国到过的所有地方。
但是今天似乎和昨天的完全不一样。想到我的中国朋友所在城市街道荒芜,博物馆和画廊被封锁,购物中心空无一人,火车厢空空如也。武汉的医院外挤满了焦虑和惊恐的人群。
新年假期和期待已久的全家外出旅游假期已经变成了家庭宵禁伴随着沮丧绝望的感觉,渴望药物,平安,渴望着洪水退去和瘟疫即将结束。
西方媒体总是从自私的角度来报道发生在我的中国朋友们国家发生的事情!他们不知道我的中国朋友们因为爱和责任是如何限制疫情病毒在境外的疾病爆发。他们从不考虑停止这种自私节目的播出,我期望着有一种爱能超越界线,带去人文关怀,让中国朋友们得到鼓励和声援!而像现在这样缺乏爱的节目媒体是多么狭隘和悲哀啊!
最重要的是我想要告诉你们—我的朋友::我依然关心着你们的健康,寻求着希望能够帮助你们,不管在世界任何地方我们的心都在一起!
正如一个人身处困境时会向他的朋友们求助一样,请告诉我们如何才能帮助到你们?
祝坚强勇敢!
望未来收获更多友谊和希望!
肖山和迈克尔·莱维特
2020年2月3日

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