Tuesday Jun 10, 2008
Living with Rockets: Differentiating between those killed
Posted by Mechi Fendel
Comments: 11
Comments: 11
Shalom from Sderot!
I haven't written for a long time since not much has changed. . . well at least in the government's policy of "let them suffer, we are involved in other important things. . ."
Three people have been killed in the past month:
- Dr. Shuli Katz, 70, a well known pediatrician in the area. She went to visit relatives who were afraid to meet in her south-of-Ashkelon home in Kibbutz Gevara'am. They met in Moshav Yesha (lit. Salvation) in the Southern Negev near the Egyptian border. She was getting out of the car when the warning and BOOM came that killed her.
- Mr. Jimmy Kedoshim, 48, from Kfar Azza. The day before he was killed, on Israel's Independence Day, he flew over the town throwing down candies and prizes to the children of Sderot. He was working in his garden and wanted to finish, when the 4th mortar shell hit him.
- Mr. Amnon Rozenberg, 51, from Kibbutz Nir Oz. He was working in the paint factory and went out to inspect the damage of the previous 3 mortars. The 4th fell and killed him. He's been volunteering for the past 15 years as civilian border patrol.
I hate to say it - but now that the Sha'ar Hanegev regional council (Kfar Azza), the Hof Ashkelon regional council (Gevara'am), and the Eshkol regional council (Yesha and Nir Oz) are getting involved, maybe someone will start paying attention. It's sad to say, but a resident of Sderot (whether Russian, Ethiopian, Morrocan or Yemenite) is not the same as a full-blooded Ashkenazi (Katz, Kedoshim, Rozenberg) from the surrounding kibbutzim.
I hate the fact that in my country, Eretz Yisrael (Land of Israel) there's a differentiation between types of Jews - but we're all brothers!!!
I hope the planned action will be forthcoming ASAP - before anyone else is killed.
P.S. As I write from work in kibbutz Nahal Oz, we've been told to stay in protected buildings because of mortar shells. 18 have fallen in the past few hours.
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1 | Yasher, Canada, Wednesday Jun 11, 2008
Normal countries would shoot a rocket for rocket, mortar for mortar in the general direction of the oncoming fire (proportional response), starting at the first rocket, seven years ago. You can still do that and the rockets and mortars will stop. The Palestinians do not like Russian Roulette. If they will not sop, send more rockets, do not send soldiers. This common sense way was never tried in Israel. Very strange.
2 | mhl, Thursday Jun 12, 2008
I doubt that the failure of Olmert's gang to protect Jews in Sderot is due in any large measure to Ashkenazi discrimination against Mizrachi Jews. Olmert's gang does damn little to protect Ashkenazi Jews who live in Judea and Samaria. Many of the Jews living in Gush Katif were Ashkenazi, and all they received was a good hard kick in the pants. It's more a question of protecting the wealthy elite who live around Tel Aviv, who for various reasons are in large measure Ashkenazi. Olmert just doesn't give a damn about protecting Jews who are Zionist, whatever their background.
3 | Josh, Israel, Thursday Jun 12, 2008
"Proportional response?" What are you talking about? If a criminal shoots a dozen people, do the police shoot at him once for every shot fired? No, you shoot until the threat is eliminated. Are wars ended by exchanging fire? Maybe Canada should stick to what it knows, but I'm not sure what that would be.
jb
4 | Mechi Fendel, Thursday Jun 12, 2008
IF THE COMMENT CAN BE ADDED AS AN ADDENDUM TO THE BLOG < WOULD APPRECIATE!
I've been berated by a fellow worker, Uzi from kibbutz Bror Chayil. He says that the "gag order" on the kibbutzim which prevented them from protesting the kassam missiles over these past 8 years is because of 2 reasons - nothing to do with the Sphardic/ethnic population of Sderot.
1. They have many industries that they wanted to protect - tourist attractions (restaurants, guest houses, stores, factories, etc.) - so they decided not to admit that they too are victims of kassams.
2. Sderot Mayor Eli Moyal did not want
5 | Mechi Fendel, Thursday Jun 12, 2008
2. Sderot Mayor Eli Moyal did not want to join the adjoining communities - since he felt he'd succeed in helping getting more funds for Sderot alone.
My husband, Rabbi Dovid Fendel, added that until someone in your community is directly wounded/killed, the fact that the kassams are falling doesn't make such an impression...
I think that even the neighboring kibbutzim -mainly Leftists that were pro the DisEngagement = Transfer of Jews from the Gaza strip 3 years ago- agree that nothing was gained by it- and now's the time to do something to stop the threat of Hamastan/Gaza.
6 | Michael USA, Thursday Jun 12, 2008
I am not so sure that recreating the state of Israel in the Middle East was such a good tactical idea. I think that it would have been a better idea to have created it in North America. Why? Because anti-semitism is very low here in the USA, Canda, and Mexico.
7 | Karen, Seattle, Washington, USA, Friday Jun 13, 2008
Words fail me.
8 | Wade, Friday Jun 13, 2008
I join with countless others in wishing that all of you in harm's way will stay safe & healthy. I am debating whether to visit the area when I am next in Israel- as a show of solidarity. Meanwhile, we are all waiting for the other shoe to drop. Something's got to give. I do not believe any cease fire will work. It means that all of the Israeli casualties will not be avenged. Terrorists will be encouraged that they can operate with impunity. This will breed more attacks. Hamas will get stronger and pose a worse threat than now. In order to minimize IDF casualties, I favor aerial bombardment.
9 | Phil, USA, Saturday Jun 14, 2008
In the US the MSM says nothing about rocket attacks on Israeli civilians. Please keep blogging the names of civilian casualties. Ask friends in other towns to do the same. Link your blogs together. Make those people real to us. When they have names and passions as we have, we cannot so easily turn away and say "Oh that's just those zany Middle Easterners going at it again." My own opinion has changed because of this blog.
10 | Amarilys Pons, Saturday Jun 14, 2008
Sderot and other towns under attack should be given 155mm howitzers and large quantities of shells.
They should have obsevers who can tell them more or less where the incoming fire is coming from. Then they should walk howitzer shells up and down in the offending area for something like, a thousand yards in each direction from the source of fire. Anything within a thousand yards, of a point of fire of a rocket, will be eradicated. Eventually the people living close to the firing points will refuse to allow the terrorists (often their friends and relatives) to keep using the same areas.
11 | Lars in Wisconsin, Friday Jun 27, 2008
In the words of Edmund Burke (an Anglo-Irish statesman and author)
..."The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"...
With that said, it is time for the good people of Israel to realize that the UN along with many countries care not one ioda whether Israel lives in peace or dies in battle. Israel has been fighting this war since 1946 and still peace is beyond the grasp. The world shouted "Land for Peace", still Israeli citizens dodge rockets and mortars. As always Israel must fight to survive, while the world meets in committees.
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A glimpse into life under fire as told by inhabitants of Sderot, young people who devote their time to volunteer in the city and by writers from the Sderot Media Center.
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