Jihad by Arabs a plague to Israeli town

Hamas authority organizes jihad by Arabs in the autonomous Gaza enclave in Israel, rockets are a plague to southern Israeli town

Aron Heller with the Associated Press reported Saturday Jan. 19, about Sderot, Israel: worn down by thousands of rockets and mortars fired from nearby Gaza enclave as a part of an Arab jihad.

The constant war-front lifestyle is driving town residents away, which causes gloating among Arabs intent on destroying Israel.

The mayor says life here has become "impossible."

This is all welcome news to Gaza's Islamic militants, who say their goal is to turn Sderot into a ghost town.

While no one in Israel considers that a realistic scenario, the unrelenting barrage of missiles is pushing Israel ever closer to an armed showdown with the Hamas hard-liners who rule the Gaza Strip.

Last week alone, Israeli fire killed at least 30 Palestinians, mostly armed militants, and rocket barrages continued unabated.

The rockets are homemade and inaccurate, especially by comparison with the deadly high-tech weaponry Israel deploys to suppress the attacks.

But they have killed 12 people in Sderot and neighboring villages over the past six years, wounded dozens more and caused millions of dollars in damage.

Residents say the worst part of their disrupted life is the constant fear of never knowing where the next rocket will fall. "I am falling apart, it is killing me, it is killing my family," says Shulamit Sasson, 44.

Her family of seven sleeps side by side on mattresses on their living room floor, to be close to a makeshift bomb shelter. Two of her children are afraid to bathe or even undress lest they be caught unready for an incoming rocket.

Her 13-year-old son wets himself each time he hears public loudspeakers blare "tseva adom" — "color red" — meaning a rocket will arrive in less than a minute.

"My son goes to school, hears a siren, wets his pants and comes home, is that a normal child? Sasson said.

“A 13-year-old boy that needs me to go into the shower with him — is that a normal boy? I need to stand next to him when he goes to the bathroom — is that a normal child?"

The plight of people like Sasson have Israel's government in a quandary.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has repeatedly said he is not eager to venture on a risky Gaza operation. But no Israeli government perceived as weak on defense can survive for long.

Talk about problems with homegrown terrorism. Why do these Arabs still occupy land within a sovereign democratic republic?

Same reason they do in America, training in rural camps to eventually attack to turn American towns into terrorized war zones: politics.

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