Blame Hamas for Gaza Suffering -Frida GhitisWhile news about Gaza fills the airwaves, there is a peculiar disinterest in the nightmare that is life for the people of Sderot and its vicinity in Israel. Every day, every few hours, the sirens wail their warning, giving terrified parents and children less than 15 seconds to take cover.
The rockets are deliberately aimed at civilians. They fall on schools and streets and day care centers. A recent study shows 56% of Sderot residents have had their home hit by a rocket or shrapnel. More than 90% say their street or an adjacent one has been hit, and almost 50% know someone who was killed in such an attack.
Every response by Israel draws international condemnation. Other countries have reacted to attacks against their population by pulverizing their opponents. Israel targeted militant leaders and tried economic sanctions.
(Miami Herald)
2 comments:
It's true that the world seems to have a double standard where Israel is concerned. It is also true that the world likes to think Israel somehow brings this on itself because of the way it handles things. You can see this twisted way of thinking in the statements made by Condi Rice and W. Bush posted here in the recent past. Israel is in the unique position of having to live alongside it's terrorists. The world helped create Israel, and gave it most of its problems and now turns it's collective back on it.
I must confess agreement with you:
Bush and Rice seem to have become counterproductive to Israeli interests.
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