Posted on 07/12/2006 8:15:33 AM PDT by SmithL
What great mental imagery. Thanks for that. Here's to hoping the pit bull is hungry and determined.
An Interesting Article I found on ARUTZ SHEVA
The Sounds of War
by Rachel Saperstein
Jul 10, '06
We sit in our plasterboard caravilla in Nitzan, the largest of the refugee camps for those expelled from Gush Katif. Nitzan lies between the coastal cities of Ashdod and Ashkelon. Last week, Ashkelon was hit by two Kassam rockets launched from the former communities of northern Gush Katif. One landed in a schoolyard, the other in an open space.
Ashkelon is in turmoil. The southern city of Sderot has been bombed repeatedly. The kibbutzes and moshavs bordering Gaza are hit incessantly.
Having tunneled under the much-touted protective walls, Gazan terrorists killed two IDF soldiers and kidnapped Cpl. Gilad Shalit. The government, pressured by public protest over the kidnapping and the bombings, finally allowed the IDF to react.
We hear the bombing runs of our jets, the whirring of helicopters over our caravillas. The thumping sound of artillery and tank fire is constant. Our windows rattle from the echo of Kassam fire from the other side.
We lived with these sounds for five years when we were the victims of endless mortar and rocket fire. Now, the rockets are larger, have greater range and are more deadly. We pleaded with the government to act to end these attacks. But we were "settlers" and the government allowed the army only a symbolic response.
We warned the country that if the IDF left Gaza, the attacks would become more deadly. We were evicted; and the enemy's appetite increased.
Today, our homes are made from plasterboard and will not stand up to any attack when the Arabs start to use the longer-range rockets they are known to be stockpiling. Our flimsy caravillas will simply disintegrate.
This past week, a woman selling clothes designed for religious women came to Nitzan. We are the perfect customers for her wares. Her cell phone rang repeatedly. "I'll be home soon," she said over and over again. She looked at me and finally broke down.
"I'm from Sderot," she sighed. "That's my son calling. He is thirteen and alone in the house. My husband is away; my daughter is at summer camp. They've taken some of the children to the north of the country for respite. My son is terrified of being alone. He's wetting his bed. He's afraid to go to sleep. People are packing and renting homes in the center of the country. Soon Sderot will be a ghost town. What has happened to this country? Why won't we fight back?"
Moshavs and kibbutzes in the western Negev are emptying out. The members of kibbutzes close to the Gaza border, who spent their Friday afternoons carrying signs saying "End the occupation. End Gush Katif" are running away or cowering in terror as their homes and fields are blasted. Their dream has come true. The "occupation" has ended. Gush Katif is no more.
Now, their grateful Gazan neighbors are thanking them in the traditional manner. Do they finally realize that we, the "Gush Katif occupiers", had protected them with our lives?
Yes, we, the people of Gush Katif, were pulled out to placate a cruel enemy, but the deadly attempts to destroy Israel continue. I am constantly amazed at the naivete, or wishful thinking, of our leaders. Or is it their simple disregard for the safety of Israel's citizens?
Meanwhile, the sounds of war are outside our home.
"Who's more irrational? The guy who believes in a God he can't see? Or the guy who is offended by a God he doesn't believe in?" Brad Stine
Looks like we've finally got our relations with Israel straightened out.
"I'm actually impressed w/Olmert. I didn't think he'd have the guts to take it to them."
As far as i'm concerned the jury is still out on Olmert. I don't think he has it in him. Gaza needs to be reoccupied and this talk about turning over the West Bank needs to stop b/c the Palis have obviously demonstrated they are unable to govern themselves. Next is to eradicate Hizbullah and push them all the way back to Beruit, maybe even reoccupy Southern Lebanon again (by the way where are those 10,000 plus rockets Hizbullah has??, other than the exchange this morning and the later firing of 5 kaytushas at Mt. Vernon (sp), i was expecting to see a full barage) Then Olmert needs to put a couple armored divisions on the road to Damascus and advance them a mile for every hour they refuse to dismantle Hizbullah and Hamas leader Meshal (who resides in Damascus) continues to breathe. And finally i'd tell Tehran there are a couple Jericho missles with their name on it if they don't call off their proxies (Hamas, Hizbullah, Lebanon, Syria, etc.). If Bibi Netanyahu were PM all this would have never happened b/c the arab/muslim world knows he's got stones
The India bombing yesterday is what did it for me. Every day the Islamofascists are opening up a new front in their war with Civilization. The totality of the evidence can no longer be ignored. I truly think they won't rest until they've hit every country that is not allied with them, and the sooner we recognize that, the better.
Care to elaborate?
I do tend to agree, just want to hear your detailed take on the situation.
Then the Media would be calling you a Corporate Whore, a War Monger, hate-filled, and completely nuts...
Oh wait....
They do that ANY TIME someone stands up to terror, don't they?
Hey, on FNC at 12:30 they ran UNITED STATES BLAMES SYRIA, IRAN FOR HEZBOLLAH KIDNAPPING OF ISRAELI SOLDIERS, DEMANDS UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE but I can't find a thread on it.
Unfortunately that has become the mentality of the greater part of this nation. We need that WW II mindset again.
It's not just her, the State Dept should have been cleaned out as Newt suggested about 5 years ago. They need to advance the policies of the big dog in the White House, not act as the tail that wags the dog.
Sorry, but, you're full of it. Colin Powell wasn't any better.
(IsraelNN.com) The Russian Foreign Ministry condemned the attack on Israel by Hizbullah terrorists Wednesday morning and called for the immediate release of the two IDF soldiers taken captive by the terrorists.
A statement by the Russian government added, however, that Israel should “show restraint and a cool head, not permit the destruction of a civilian infrastructure in Lebanon and refrain from the disproportionate use of force.”
Seven IDF soldiers were killed, four wounded and two were taken captive by the terrorists in a multi-pronged attack on northern Israel carried out with massive shelling, Katyusha rocket attacks and ground forces at the border.
The Russians said it was urgent to avoid a “full-blown confrontation” between Israel and Hizbullah in southern Lebanon. .................
LOL...(gallows humor at it's best)
:)) Feel free to use it, if you like!
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