An Israeli firefighter stands at the scene after a rocket, fired by Palestinian militants, landed in a high school classroom in the southern town of
Israeli students embrace during a rocket attack at their high school in the southern town of Sderot May 17, 2007. REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen
Israeli residents occupy a bomb shelter during a rocket attack in the southern Israeli town of Sderot May 17, 2007. REUTERS/Yonathan Weitzman (
An Israeli high school student reads a prayer book while taking cover under a desk in a classroom during a rocket attack in the southern town of
Israeli medics evacuate a lightly injured woman from the scene of a rocket attack in the southern town of Sderot May 17, 2007. REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen (
Israelis react as a rocket warning siren sounds in the town of Sderot, southern Israel, Thursday, May 17, 2007. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Israeli students hold their hands up to their faces on the scene of a rocket attack at their high school in the southern town of Sderot May 17, 2007. REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen (
Israeli police stand outside a factory that was hit by a rocket fired by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip in the town of Sderot, southern Israel, Thursday, May 17, 2007. More than 50 rockets fired by Palestinian militants in the
An Israeli woman protects her children as a rocket warning siren sounds in the town of
An Israeli man inspects the damage to his house after a rocket attack in Sderot May 18, 2007. REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen (ISRAEL)
Israeli medics evacuate an injured woman from the scene of a rocket attack in Sderot May 18, 2007. REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen (ISRAEL)
Israelis embrace after a rocket attack in Sderot May 18, 2007. REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen (ISRAEL)
Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (R) listens to military personnel and local members of the authority [Mayor Eli Moyal] during his visit to the southern Israeli town of Sderot, in this May 17, 2007 handout picture from the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO). Olmert told residents of Sderot, a border town hit by dozens of Palestinian rockets in recent days, that his government would stand firm and work to reduce the attacks during a visit lasting several hours on Thursday. REUTERS/Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Handout
Rick,
When the rockets fall on Israel, I always wonder, where is the outrage? The media is outraged over a theoretical global warming. They are outraged over a racist remark. They are outraged that a prisoner in Guantanamo might not have gotten his choice of cuisine. They weep for disoriented whales in San Francisco Bay. But when the rockets fall on Israel and the blood flows in the streets and little children hide under their desks in school fearing another attack, the media has no outrage. They just blandly look on, seemingly with the attitude of "More Jews Killed?...Ho-Hum. Let's report on the BIG STORY--Is Jenny going to get back with Brad or not?"
I am one among many Christians that DO TAKE NOTICE, and I do pray frequently for Israel and Jerusalem and for the Jewish people, and so do the other Christians I know. And I vote for leaders who take a public and unflinching stand for Israel.
Kind Regards,
Brother Mel
Posted by: Brother Mel | May 31, 2007 at 08:07 PM
SDEROT NEEDS TO PUBLICLY ANNOUNCE A CONTEST FOR ISRAELI ENGINEERS TO DEVELOP A HOMEMADE INACCURATE QASSAM-LIKE ROCKET SO THAT THE RESIDENTS OF SDEROT CAN DEFEND THEMSELVES AND FIRE BACK AT GAZA WITH EACH ROCKET ATTACK ON SDEROT. THE PRIZE COULD BE ONE SHEKEL AND THERE WOULD BE A STAMPEDE OF ISRAELI SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS WHO WOULD GLADLY DEVELOP SUCH A ROCKET. The residents of Gaza only understand an eye for an eye and only when they feel the same fear and terror as the residents of Sderot and surrounding will they force a stop to the constant Qassam fire on Sderot. With all due respect to IDF (and none to Olmert), their measures endanger Israeli soldiers, are very expensive, and mostly they have not succeeded in stopping the Qassam rocket fire. It is time for NEW and innovative, non-conventional approaches. The "contest" should be widely advertised but could be done either officially by the city of Sderot or non-sanctioned and carried out as everyone denies responsibility, publically denounces such illegal activity, and in numerous private meetings throughout Israel raise a toast L'Chayim to Israeli engineering and new approaches that will bring tranquility to the children and citizens of Sderot and surroundings.
Posted by: Meir Elazar | October 08, 2007 at 10:02 AM