Let us emphasize that Sderot is in pre-1967 Israel, well within the Green Line. It is not a "settlement", unless one considers Tel Aviv and Haifa also to be settlements.
I hereby propose the organization of the Sderot Defense Forces (SDF). The SDF will be a militia entirely operated by and manned by the residents of Sderot. Its function will be to retaliate whenever Sderot is attacked.
The SDF will be equipped with heavy artillery, tanks, rockets, jets and a battleship. An aircraft carrier might be a nice addition down the road, as would be heavy air bombers. Whenever Sderot is attacked, the SDF will saturate the Gaza Strip with rockets, bombs and shells.
Israel will not be held responsible. The Israeli government can shrug its shoulders and say: "Hey, that ain't us bombing Gaza. Any Gaza residents getting killed or hurt from the retaliation shelling will be the responsibility of the PLO."
The SDF will not be answerable to the Israeli government. Just like the Israeli government has washed its hands of any responsibility for the security of Sderot, and abandoned any military role in retaliating for attacks on Sderot, so will the SDF announce that it is not automatically going to respond to any calls for help from Israel, nor will it automatically support defense efforts by Israel.
A single Kassam, mortar shell, Katyusha, suicide bomber or large rock used by the PLO or its affiliates in Gaza to attack Sderot will result in the saturation bombing of the entire Gaza Strip by the SDF. Ehud Olmert need not worry, though, because there will be no Jews or Israeli soldiers there to risk getting hit or to be blamed. If the Gaza Strip simply is emptied out of population due to the retaliation shelling, well, that is no worse a consequence than Sderot being emptied out as a result of Oslo cowardice and defeatism.
You might want to fax this proposal to your favorite Israeli politician.
Of course, proposals not pushed by the government are frowned upon. Ask Minister of Education Yael ("Yuli") Tamir. She is a Labor party hack and had been a leftist professor of education and philosophy at Tel Aviv University. She is so extreme that even Leonard Fein likes her. In May, Tamir announced that a top item in her educational agenda will be to introduce brainwashing and indoctrination in the school curriculum to persuade the children to endorse the "contraction" plan that the new Kadima-Labor government is peddling (Yediot Ahronot May 4).
The goal of the Labor-party-controlled Ministry of Education seems to be to turn Israeli school children into little Pavlik Morozovs.
Who?
Pavlik Morozov, a boy who "loved communism," was hailed as the ultimate patriot by Stalin's regime. He was a handsome 14-year-old schoolboy who lived in a tiny Siberian village, never played truant, always did his homework and was polite to his teachers. He loved communism so much so that when his own father broke the law he informed on him to the authorities.
Pavlik, too, was taught in school to support the policies of his government.
I hereby propose the organization of the Sderot Defense Forces (SDF). The SDF will be a militia entirely operated by and manned by the residents of Sderot. Its function will be to retaliate whenever Sderot is attacked.
The SDF will be equipped with heavy artillery, tanks, rockets, jets and a battleship. An aircraft carrier might be a nice addition down the road, as would be heavy air bombers. Whenever Sderot is attacked, the SDF will saturate the Gaza Strip with rockets, bombs and shells.
Israel will not be held responsible. The Israeli government can shrug its shoulders and say: "Hey, that ain't us bombing Gaza. Any Gaza residents getting killed or hurt from the retaliation shelling will be the responsibility of the PLO."
The SDF will not be answerable to the Israeli government. Just like the Israeli government has washed its hands of any responsibility for the security of Sderot, and abandoned any military role in retaliating for attacks on Sderot, so will the SDF announce that it is not automatically going to respond to any calls for help from Israel, nor will it automatically support defense efforts by Israel.
A single Kassam, mortar shell, Katyusha, suicide bomber or large rock used by the PLO or its affiliates in Gaza to attack Sderot will result in the saturation bombing of the entire Gaza Strip by the SDF. Ehud Olmert need not worry, though, because there will be no Jews or Israeli soldiers there to risk getting hit or to be blamed. If the Gaza Strip simply is emptied out of population due to the retaliation shelling, well, that is no worse a consequence than Sderot being emptied out as a result of Oslo cowardice and defeatism.
You might want to fax this proposal to your favorite Israeli politician.
Of course, proposals not pushed by the government are frowned upon. Ask Minister of Education Yael ("Yuli") Tamir. She is a Labor party hack and had been a leftist professor of education and philosophy at Tel Aviv University. She is so extreme that even Leonard Fein likes her. In May, Tamir announced that a top item in her educational agenda will be to introduce brainwashing and indoctrination in the school curriculum to persuade the children to endorse the "contraction" plan that the new Kadima-Labor government is peddling (Yediot Ahronot May 4).
The goal of the Labor-party-controlled Ministry of Education seems to be to turn Israeli school children into little Pavlik Morozovs.
Who?
Pavlik Morozov, a boy who "loved communism," was hailed as the ultimate patriot by Stalin's regime. He was a handsome 14-year-old schoolboy who lived in a tiny Siberian village, never played truant, always did his homework and was polite to his teachers. He loved communism so much so that when his own father broke the law he informed on him to the authorities.
Pavlik, too, was taught in school to support the policies of his government.