Sderot residents welcome ground op after years of rocket-fire

[sellitman]

<SNIP> In the working-class Negev town of Sderot, which has suffered 7,500 rocket hits in eight years, residents warmly welcomed the Gaza incursion that began on Saturday.

"I don't know if you can stop the rockets this way, but you can slow them down by keeping the terrorists busy," Nitai Shreiber, head of a social work organization in the town, said on Sunday.

"You can somehow keep going like this for a month, for six months, but not for eight years. We tried different options, including a cease-fire, but they didn't work. The rockets didn't stop. Maybe this will give them a convincing reason to stop."

Shreiber's organization, Gvanim, runs activities for Sderot's youth trapped in bomb shelters by bombardments. As rocket fire has escalated in the past couple of years, his family and nine others, all members of an urban kibbutz, moved to rented apartments in Sde Boker south of Beersheba.

"I still come to work in Sderot every day, but I had to take my children out of the line of fire so they can start to live normal life," he said.

Most residents, however, do not have the inclination or the means to leave the battered Negev town.

"Where am I going to go?" wondered Shimshi Yedid Zion, a mohel who must devote hours each day to caring for a severely disabled son. He insisted he would stay no matter what.

According to Dalia Yosef, director of Sderot's Resilience Center, "that's what most people here will tell you - that they don't have anywhere else to go. This is their home." <SNIP>

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[azurnoir]

1. So where in Gaza can Palestinians take their chikdren

for a normal life, oh wait there isn't any place is there?

[sellitman]

4. For starters

They could ask their loving Hamas benefactors to stop using them as human shields.

Betcha that might be a good start.

[azurnoir]

10. Yes yes sellitman or trying to anyway

we know everytime anywhere IDF kills a civilian its because they were used in human shields we've heard it a thousand times and that's the problem, but your post proves this to be quite honest

The guiding principle of Israel's ground invasion is to move in with full force and try to minimize Israeli casualties, Israeli military correspondent Alex Fishman wrote in the daily Yediot Ahronoth. "We'll pay the international price later for the collateral damage and the anticipated civilian casualties," Fishman said."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=124&topic_id=237283&mesg_id=237283

more hasbara

[ProgressiveMuslim]

7. No there is not. Gaza is an

Open air prison/ghetto/concentration camp.

It's filled with the descendents of people who fled Zionist terror in 1948.

[Duckhunter935]

8. Yes I do feel sorry for them

And I do feel sorry for these people

List of Hamas suicide attacks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hamas_suicide_attacks

and this
List of Israeli civilian casualties in the Second Intifada

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_civilian_casualties_in_the_Second_Intifada

I wish both sides would just get along

[peacetalksforall]

2. So, if a Palestinian was asked why they were bombed and if there really were 7500

missiles, what would they say?

Israel doesn't want any Palestinians and they won't treat them with respect - that is now evident.

[sellitman]

5. No one lobbing missiles at me would get any respect either.

The only reason Gaza was blockaided was to stop the missiles from being imported. When that failed and they wouldn't stop terrorizing Israeli towns it left the Israelis very little choice. Hamas has brought this war to it's own people and the suffering that is going on is Hamas's fault. When the citizens of Gaza pick leaders who want peace they will get it. Until then they reap what they sow.

[peacetalksforall]

9. You just can't accept that these people are trying to defend themselves and

Israelis make out like they are the only victims. I'm getting sick of Israel. A 180.

[Duckhunter935]

11. All civilians

on both sides are victims. Unfortunantly uniformed fighters are not civilians

[FarrenH]

3. I feel sympathy for the people of Sderot

just as I felt sympathy for victims of the Magoo's bar bombing and their families during Apartheid, which I grew up under. But that sympathy was diluted by the knowledge that my fellow white South Africans, including the friends and families of those victims, kept voting in a white nationalist government. My sympathy for Israelis is similarly diluted. Israel has created and fed its own monsters and no amount of handwaving about a 40-year-old war and the religious fundamentalism of Hamas will change that.

The Palestinians have the moral right to resist what is, essentially, Apartheid. Their embrace of Islamism on the back of the failure of secular liberation movements doesn't obviate that. It only complicates it. But until Israel is willing to go to the negotiating table with a just offering, not an injust compromise, it is Israelis, not the Palestinians, that must bear the majority of the blame for all this conflict.

[ProgressiveMuslim]

6. That's exactly why some Palestinians approve of actions against Israel.

Feels good to strike back.

Doesn't make great political philosophy though.