Today, yet another terrorist rocket barrage struck in and near the beleaguered Israeli town of Sderot. As of now, one Israeli has been killed in the attack, and several more are injured. The siege of Sderot continues, and shows little sign of abating.
In the past couple of days, two notable pieces have done a good job of examining the plight of Sderot from both a human and political perspective. First, Sderot's war children:
Just like any other 10-year-old boy who wants his mother at his side during tough times, he asked where she was, but realized that at that moment mom is not around. And Yossi, despite the Qassam shrapnel that was lodged in his shoulder, the blood around him, and the incredible pain, maintained incomprehensible restraint. He merely muttered that his shoulder hurts, and his little sister, just like a kind nurse, kept on caressing him.
Then, here's Bret Stephens in the Wall Street Journal:
It is no stretch to say that life in Sderot has become unendurable. Palestinians and their chorus of supporters -- including the 118 countries of the so-called Non-Aligned Movement, much of Europe, and the panoply of international aid organizations from the World Bank to the United Nations -- typically reply that life in the Gaza Strip is also unendurable, and that Palestinian casualties greatly exceed Israeli ones. But this argument is fatuous: Conditions in Gaza, in so far as they are shaped by Israel, are a function of conditions in Sderot. No Palestinian Kassams (or other forms of terrorism), no Israeli "siege."
Please continue your prayers for the people of Sderot as they attempt to endure the unendurable.