How dumb can they get?
This is from a Chicago Tribune interview with Sderot Mayor David Bouskila: Q You've said you're not sure how long the quiet will last. What is the future of Sderot?What does this reporter think would happen if we moved everyone out of Sderot and Kiryat Shmona and Ashdod and Ashkelon and all the other places where there's rocket fire? Does he really think the Arabs would stop shooting? What a moron....
A The army solved the problem when there were 100 Kassams a month. The army cannot fight against one or two people (launching rockets). This is something you have to solve politically, but I don't think Hamas is ready to do something like this.
Q Why not take away the militants' ability to make trouble for you? Why not move the people out of Sderot?
A Hamas started with Kassams that traveled three or four kilometers. Now they have rockets that travel 40 kilometers. We have to give them the idea that it's not good for them to launch rockets. They lose more than they win.
When the Israelis evacuated Gaza in 2005, they thought if we give all the settlements back to the Palestinians, there will be peace. But instead of launching rockets at Gush Katif, they launch them at Sderot. After that at Ashkelon. After that at Ashdod. We have to be (in Sderot), and we have to be strong enough.
Q All of your people feel this way?
A Yes. If not they would all have left. There was a time when (the population) was 17,000. Now it is 25,000. It's our country. It's our home.
The picture at the top is Sderot kids on the floor of a classroom during a drill or a rocket attack.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:24 PM
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There's no safe place in Israel anymore. Maybe the Leftists on Dizengoff Street haven't received the terrorist "telegram" yet. Such a wake up call should serve to drive the point home.
As I keep saying, people in the U.S. do not understand the rockets - the range, the effects, the cost of shelters, etc etc. Has Dore agreed to supplement his dot covered aerial photo of Gaza launch sites with a dot covered aerial photo urban Sderot rocket landing sites? And the third one that I've seen of the ranges the rockets can reach into Israel. As far as "how dumb can they get?", I can only say that more education is needed. The willfully dumb are not educable, but many regular people are, if you can produce materials and get them directly to people, not filtered by our charming press.
PS I saw something the other day that talked about a farming area (WB) that is separated from the Pali farmers' homes by the fence. Way down in the story it said that the family had been farming the land for a long time, but that they didn't actually own the land. Whoa! When will a ***title search*** based map of the land along the fenceline be available?
People in the US also do not appreciate how very small Israel is. Where does the questioner think Israel could move the Sderot residents to? To Tel Aviv? Jerusalem? And then what? When the missiles reach Tel Aviv (and they might already be able to do so) what would he have Israel do?
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