I was trying to think about a situation that might be scarier than going to my local swimming pool to do some laps and finding a 12-foot tiger cruising around in the lane next to me. About all I could come up with was being an elementary school student in a city that has been targeted by thousands of kassam rockets and hit nearly every day for the past six months.
Imagine going to school and finding your soccer field with a huge hole right where the goalie should have been standing. Imagine waiting in line for an ice cream at the corner stand and watching as the guy pumping gas across the street gets blown to smithereens. Now try to imagine how the world can condemn your government’s attempts to stop the terrorists who fire rockets at your city—the maniacs who act not indiscriminately, but with the express purpose of attacking the civilian population.
Welcome to Sderot—a small city in Southern Israel—and the site of Shirel Feldman’s funeral earlier this week after she was struck with a kassam rocket fired by Hamas and Fatah terrorists. Welcome to a world where Britain’s University and College Union—the largest association of “Enlightened” British Academics—votes for a comprehensive boycott of Israeli Universities. Remember that this is the same week in which of hundreds of peacefully-protesting Iranian Students were brutally beaten and arrested in the streets of Tehran by the Revolutionary Guards for belonging to Pro-Democracy organizations; the same month in which thousands of Native Sudanese were slaughtered in Darfur by Government-Sponsored Arab Militias. And yet sadly their cries were not heard because Britain's Elite was busy fighting the more important battle against "Apartheid Israel." What’s next from these tea-sipping ninnies? Protecting the "Free Speech" of Moqtada Al-Sadr as he praises the roadside bombs that slaughter Sunni and Kurdish civilians? Or perhaps it will be condemning Sesame Street for its lack of social welfare programs that leave homeless Oscar The Grouch to live in a trash can and schizophrenic Big Bird to continue his hallucinations of an imaginary friend named Snuffleupagus because the government wont subsidize his medications?
Lets get serious here for a moment. The Residents of Sderot are under constant attack and unfortunately it seems as though the Rest of the World has abandoned them. Whether Economically (by visiting and helping to support the struggling businesses of the city), Politically (call your local Congressman and tell him/her to Support Israel in her Necessary Self-Defense), or Spiritually (Say a Prayer for Tens of Thousands of People who could really use it), The People of Sderot Deserve our Support!
