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If 80 Rockets Per Month Landed on Your Town What

If 80 rockets pre month landed on your town, on your kids' school, your monuments, your businesses, parks, and buildings of worship, what would you do?

That's what the citizens of Sderot in Southern Israel experience and it is so commonplace the media - right wing, left wing, alternative, all of them in the freer world - barely report them, if they do, they refer to the very deadly but inaccurate rockets as "homemade."

Hey, they are not cookies. Qassam rockets are typical of terrorist methods in that they fall willy nilly (targeting is an alien concept and the word precision not in terrorists' vocabularies, anyway they want to kill by quantity not quality). Qassams can still damage the inadvertent, civilian targets and certainly traumatize the children and more sensitive adults in the town. Plus they have caused more than a few fatalities.

Like suicide bombings, the Qassams traumatize the population and kill innocents.

Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for these provocations. What is the difference between this group, Hamas, Hizbollah, the original PLO, the and the PFLP? All the groups have the same goals and methods. And their success is measured out in dead civilians and "unprovoked, heavy-handed" Israeli military agression. The media claim "retaliation" as if the IDF want to discipline the terrorists or avenge their dead. NOT TRUE. Every IDF action is meant to protect Israel from FUTURE tragedy. Get that into your head, all you journalists.

I am sorry for the Palestinians. They not only experience too much death and war, but even at peace they are in misery and constant exhortation to violence. Their leaders, their advocates, their brethren, and none of their obsenely wealthy supporters ever help them. Instead they sacrifice them and their dream of a state in exchange for some short-lived glory, power, and money. They have been most exploited by their own.

Everyone knows that if there were no attacks, there would be no retaliation. Israel does not invade for no reason. Israel would rather let its exhausted military rest in a peaceful environment for a change.

But what can it do when the citizens are awakened at night, when children at school are murdered? What would your government do? Would it negotiate?

So Israel sends airstrikes into Gaza, sometimes with pinpoint accuracy killing the terrorists and bombing their factories, sometimes mistakenly killing innocents (although when the entire culture is so immersed in hate, only the young and infirm can truly be called innocent) in retaliation and the media make it sound as if Israel is crushing the population while barely suffering at all.

For one thing, the populace in Israel feels true remorse, guilt, and sympathy when innocents are killed. They launch inquiries, allow independent inspectors, compensate the survivors, and the leads of state, of all the diverse political factions in the land, issue official apologies.

The media in Israel go wild, as wild as the media in the States over Bush. The democratic and free society of Israel has numerous groups and factions screaming for an end to bloodshed, for an end to the IDF, for utmost truth, as they should. There are no such groups or voices on the other side, whose mainstream media glorify in any Jewish death, who justify 911 if done by Arabs but revile it when they make the absurd claim "evil Zionists" were the perpetrators. There are Israeli humanitarian organizations in Gaza, human rights groups in Israel who are quicker to attack the morality and methods of defence than the most deranged anti-semite, demand resignation of the highest officials in the land, and condemn all military action.

Yet all that is never enough to convince the world of Israel's "right to exist" or even its right to defend its citizens.

The world continues to view Israel as agressive, cruel, even murderous.

Only Israel is criticized for defending itself yet it is THE ONLY country on Earth which continuously faces clear and true possiblity of complete annihialation. It is the only place which faces disproportionate numbers of enemies which perpetuate hate in their mainstream media and teach their children to kill, kill, kill you so that they can go to heaven. I love the absurdity of that one.

So please remember every time you hear of an Israeli incursion into a Palestinian territory, remember it is not done out of the blue but to prevent terror in Israel, the latest example of which you may not even be aware.

If you're not interested in the truth, then shut up.

Now, back to Gaza, which daily launches deadly rockets into a town of civilians, Sderot, and I ask all of you, fellow bloggers, readers, and I bet you to answer...what do you think YOUR government would do if, for several years, your town experienced deadly rocket attacks at all hours of the day and night at the average rate of 80 per month. What would you be advocating or demanding if Vancouver launched 80 rockets per month on Seattle?? Or if Paris did that to London?