Over 60 Islamoterror Rocket Attacks Bombard Southern Israel In One Day

Gaza Islamoterrorists continue to bombard southern Israel with rocket attacks aimed at killing innocent civilians. On Wednesday two Kassam rockets fell on Eshkol and the Sha'ar Hanegev region only moments after five mortar shells had hit a kibbutz. Over 60 rockets and mortar shells were fired at Ashkelon and the western Negev throughout the day. The Associated Press reported that "a rocket slammed directly into a house in the small community of Tkuma seconds after a father rushed his children from the living room into a bomb shelter. The living room wall had a gaping hole and was sprayed with shrapnel. Toys lay covered in rubble and dust. A crib was pocked by shrapnel and filled with pieces of concrete." The Jerusalem Post reported that "a number of Grad-type rockets were fired at Ashkelon throughout the morning. One of them struck outside the home of Benny Gueta, sending several people into shock. 'We heard the alarm and the whistling as it approached, and then we heard a big explosion,' which destroyed a storage shed and shattered some of the house's windows, Gueta said. 'We can't live this way,' Gueta told Israel Radio. 'It's no way to live.'" In response, the Jerualem Post states that Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak announced "that Israel would hold up a shipment of food and humanitarian supplies that was due to be delivered to residents of the Gaza Strip during the day." The AP reports that "amid the violence, both sides have expressed willingness to consider reviving the truce that lapsed on Friday."

I first must point out the astounding media bias when it comes to Israel. The AP headline about the rocket attacks against Israel declared that "Dozens of militant rockets, mortars barrage Israel." Militant rockets?! To borrow and amend the old NRA adage, rockets don't kill people, people kill people. Furthermore, the article continously refers to "Palestinian militants." Why the reluctance to call these barbarians what they are? They are Islamic terrorists and the media should have no qualms about labeling them as such.

When will this madness end? Can the Israeli government not hear the plight of its own citizens constantly declaring that this is "no way to live"? Even more, to perish in a Palestinian rocket attack as many already have is no way to die. The current Israeli response is to hold up a shipment of humanitarian supplies? Are you kidding me? Rockets fall on Israel and Israel expresses willingness to negotiate? Neville Chamberlain would be proud. Can you imagine if San Diego were being constantly bombarded by rockets targeting and killing innocent civilians and the government response was to resolutely declare that humanitarian aid to the enemy would be held up?

Israel withdrew from Gaza pulling every settler and soldier out of the area a number of years ago. Has it brought peace? Absolutely not. It brought Hamas into power. It brought us the already forgotten kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit who still remains a captive. It brought more rocket attacks on Israel than before the retreat from Gaza. But I thought that the Palestinians were fighting to end the occupation? The withdrawal from Gaza should have dispelled that notion to anyone not blinded by Jew hatred. All it did was allow Hamas to declare that terrorism had worked and forced the Jews to flee from Gaza. All it did is encourage the Islamoterrorists to continue their war against Israel from the river to the sea.

The response of Israel must be overwhelming. A peace process has not worked and will not work anytime soon. Israel needs a victory process. Israel needs to stop arguing they have the right to self-defense and start arguing that they have the right to offense. This tit for tat "you hit Israel with rockets, I hold up shipments of aid" is madness that cannot be continued. The Palestinian terrorists are serious about their clearly stated goals of destroying the Jewish State. It is about time the Israeli government took their enemy seriously and acted accordingly.

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