Sderot Mayor Eli Moyal observed bitterly Sunday that the state’s inability to protect his town’s residents from Kassam rocket attacks fired by Palestinian Authority terrorists in Gaza was an indictment of the Zionist dream.
“Sderot’s downfall is the downfall of the entire Zionist enterprise,” said the mayor hours after one of his fellow residents had been killed by a Kassam rocket. “If you want to want to strengthen this town, the only way is to fill it, and not empty it.”
Some 10,000 of the town’s 24,000 residents have fled in the face of rocket attacks; more than 230 rockets have been fired at Sderot and other communities in the western Negev since May 15th. The IDF has not yet received orders to launch a ground operation to end the rocket attacks.
“Sderot’s downfall is the downfall of the entire Zionist enterprise,” said the mayor hours after one of his fellow residents had been killed by a Kassam rocket. “If you want to want to strengthen this town, the only way is to fill it, and not empty it.”
Some 10,000 of the town’s 24,000 residents have fled in the face of rocket attacks; more than 230 rockets have been fired at Sderot and other communities in the western Negev since May 15th. The IDF has not yet received orders to launch a ground operation to end the rocket attacks.