[whataretheysaying] Mary Madigan: Violating the "ceasefire"

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Posted by Mary Madigan:
Violating the "ceasefire"
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   Via the Jerusalem Post: A [1]Palestinian-fired Kassam rocket injures
   two boys in an Israeli town

     The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the Kassam attack on
     Sderot that wounded two ninth-grade boys, one critically, on
     Tuesday evening. The rocket was the seventh to have been fired at
     Sderot since Tuesday morning.

     Shortly after 10 p.m., the Red Alert alarm sounded throughout
     Sderot; 10 seconds later, the rocket landed near a group of
     schoolchildren who were headed for the nearest shelter.
     Ninth-graders Matan Cohen and Adir Bassad, however, had no time to
     reach the shelter and were hit by shrapnel...

     ...Doctors told an Israel Radio interviewer shortly after 11 p.m.
     Tuesday that Bassad, who suffered hits to his chest and stomach,
     was not yet stabilized, and a surgical team was battling to save
     his life.

     Cohen, whose major wound was to his leg, was reported stabilized.

     A number of other people were reported in shock.

     One of the medics who treated the boys reported that one of them
     was likely to lose his legs. One of the boys had a bone sticking
     out of one of his legs, he said, and the other's ankle was
     completely twisted...

     A total of 62 rockets have been fired at Israel since the
     Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire was declared in November.

   Palestinian terrorists have broken the ceasefire at least 60 times.
   When Israel chooses to respond to this attack on schoolchildren, the
   Toronto Star headline reads: [2]"Israel threatens to attack
   militants".

   After the Herzilya conference, [3]Richard Landes invited a few of us
   ([4]Richard Fernandez, [5]Charles, [6]Michael Totten) to take a
   helicopter tour of Israel. The tour stopped for an hour near the Gaza
   border, where our guide, Leah Soibel, and [7]Noam Bedien of the Sderot
   Media Center described the effects of the current Palestinian bombing
   campaign on the area, populated mostly by recent immigrants. We walked
   along the area bordering Gaza, climbed up onto a lookout point to get
   a better view of the Palestinian side..

   [8]gaza 

   ..then we headed downtown. We saw the rusting remains of the Kassam
   rockets that Palestinians had fired at the town.

   [9]kassams 

   [10]kassams 

   We saw the effect of a Kassam rocket that hit the center of the local
   mall...

   [11]rocket hit mall 

   Even before this recent attack, many Israelis criticized their
   government's willingness to tolerate these attacks. Most assumed that
   other nations wouldn't be as willing to tolerate such a barrage of
   attacks without striking back.

   I'm not so sure about that. Hundreds of Buddhists have been killed by
   Islamist 'militants' in Thailand, hundreds of thousands of black
   Sudanese have died as a result of the Islamist war in Darfur. How long
   have Hindus in India tolerated Islamist attacks - decades?

   Militant French 'youth' in the banlieues burn cars every night. When
   these youth start lobbing Kassams over the banlieue borders, it'll
   probably take the French about a week to adjust, to respond to each
   burst with a gallic shrug and a c'est la vie.

   Most people around the world believe it's just a fact of life to
   tolerate the threat of terrorism; to always anticipate some
   unpredicatable Islamist outburst. Israel is not alone.

References

   1. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1164881978536&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
   2. http://www.thestar.com/News/article/165690
   3. http://www.theaugeanstables.com/
   4. http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/
   5. http://lebop.blogspot.com/
   6. http://www.michaeltotten.com/
   7. http://sderotmedia.com/?p=58
   8. file://localhost/files/whataretheysaying-gaza2med.jpg
   9. file://localhost/files/whataretheysaying-kassams2med.jpg
  10. file://localhost/files/whataretheysaying-kassamsmed.jpg
  11. file://localhost/files/whataretheysaying-sderot1med.jpg