This guy should be more than a small town mayor
Sderot Mayor Eli Moyal deserves to be more than just the mayor of a small town under attack. He gets it! While the government is running around saying they will 'reinforce' 200 buildings a month, while the media reports that last year's 'reinforcement' is already no good because this year's Kassams carry twice the explosive power, Eli Moyal understands that 'reinforcement' is not the answer. This is an excerpt from an interview with the JPost's Ruthe Blum which will be published in full next week: "Reinforcement is almost a Kafkaesque issue, because you can't reinforce the street, so you reinforce the houses in which nobody is killed anyway. This is part of the general concept of the government to treat the symptom and not the illness. The infection is over there [in Gaza], and they're busy trying to lower the fever over here. I told the government that we've got to cause the people in Gaza to want to reinforce their houses. It's true that reinforcement calms the residents of Sderot down somewhat, but I'm telling you it won't protect them."Zeir gut gezogt (very well said).
Though he said he understands the residents' fears and need to feel something is being done to alleviate their plight - and stressed that "they deserve anything they want" - "the reinforcement against the missiles that have been launched up until now won't be effective against the new generation of Kassams. Certainly not against Katyushas. So, then they'll have to add another layer of reinforcement, and they'll discover something important: that the foundations of the structures won't hold up. So they'll have to either strengthen the foundations or rebuild the structures."
Furthermore, he insisted, "When you say, 'I'm going to reinforce Sderot,' the subtext of what you are saying is: 'I accept terrorism as part of my life.' And how did we get to reinforcement? By capitulating to terrorism."
In fact, Moyal said, "The more the government reinforces homes, the longer it will take them to take real action in Gaza."
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:08 PM
4 Comments:
The problem is much deeper than that. All the bad things that are happening are just the physical manifestation of a spiritual force we ourselves created. Even destroying Gaza and expelling every single Arab will not solve the problem if things like the gay fiasco in Holy Jerusalem are not taken care of.
Israel should just take all the Arabs and move them to an area in Jordan and call it Palestine.
What? The UN and the world would get upset? But what would they really do? We see that the UN is powerless against Iran, so what would really happen, a few nasty worthless resolutions in the security council?
It's not like anyone would hate Jews any more than they do.
It totally defies logic that the Israeli government permits missile attacks. It's like it just doesn't care about its people. I'm sure the good people in Hezbollah and Syria take notice.
Jerusalem used to have a tough mayor like that... I think his name was Ehud something or other.
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