[whataretheysaying] Mary Madigan: "Ceasefire" in Sderot

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Posted by Mary Madigan:
"Ceasefire" in Sderot
http://whataretheysaying.powerblogs.com/posts/1179280969.shtml


   kassamrockets
   discarded remnants of Palestinian bombs

   The folks at [1]One Jerusalem apparently took the same tour of Sderot
   that [2]I took in December (given by the excellent guide/activist Noam
   Bedein).

   During their tour, they saw some discarded rockets and some live ones.
   [3]LGF has the video report.

     The first [video] shows Palestinian rockets collected at an Israeli
     police station, giving you an idea of how many of these attempts at
     random murder are going on every day. These are only the most
     recent rockets fired at Sderot, the ones that hadnât been discarded
     yet...

     ..In the second video, the One Jerusalem editor and his guide are
     at the outskirts of the city when a rocket is launched from Gaza
     directly in front of their eyesâfollowed by loud music and chants
     of âAllahu Akbar!â

   [4]Mere Rhetoric describes the result of these horrific and constant
   attacks:

     For the next day or so you're going to see the IDF in a holding
     pattern. Helicopters will hover over Sderot and northern Gaza to
     try to limit rocket fire until a meeting this evening between
     Peretz and army brass. Last Sunday the regularly scheduled security
     cabinet meeting apparently worked out a number of contingency plans
     in case of a major rocket attack. They'll choose one of those
     plans, the orders will go out, and some kind of operation will be
     implemented.

     The only thing that might possibly hold off a ground invasion is if
     the government decides that Hamas and Fatah are killing more of
     each other than the IDF thinks it can reasonably do in short order.
     Which would be a frustrating decision, but not necessarily a
     numerically unjustified one. There's nothing in the
     English-language Hebrew media that indicates pressure for a ground
     operation from anyone starting with the center-right on leftward,
     so the decision will probably be to escalate air strikes. Invading
     Gaza while the Palestinians are tearing themselves apart might be
     more trouble then it's worth.

     Then again - rockets are falling on schools and homes, on mothers
     and children. That can't go on.

   No, it can't go on. During my tour, I could not understand how the
   people of Sderot had tolerated this for so long.

References

   1. http://www.onejerusalem.org/blog/archives/2007/05/video_exclusive_10.asp
   2. http://whataretheysaying.powerblogs.com/files/whataretheysaying-kassamsmed.jpg
   3. http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=25496_Video-_Palestinian_Terror_Rockets_Up_Close&only
   4. http://www.mererhetoric.com/archives/11273760.html