Another kinder garden hit.

Words cannot express how grateful I am to the fact that the Ministry of Education in Israel decided that the children in the South shall not attend neither kinder garden nor school as long as rockets are being fired at us from Gaza. Today another rocket hit a kinder garden in Ashdod. It caused great damage to the building, but as it was closed nobody got hurt.
Many parents are under pressure as they have to leave their children at home when they go to work. Many kids are afraid to be at home without their parents and call them several times during the day. Not much fun being a mother under such circumstances….

It is not much fun for kids to be home all day neither. That’s the reason why many communities are arranging trips for children in the South and bring them north of “rocket reach”. My daughter will go on a trip like that tomorrow.

It is nothing but a wonder that the rockets fired at us do not do greater harm. Every day Hamas fire some 30-70 rockets at Israel. They are aimed at civilians…… Since I started my blog at the very end of December, 4 people have been killed and many have been wounded. One of the problems, that people do not pay much attention to, has to do with people suffering from shock. These wounds do not show on the flesh , but they take a long time to cure. It’s like the fear takes a solid grip on the soul and just refuses to leave.
Lot’s of Israelis (many of them being children) suffer from this.

I have a hard time understanding the argumentation when people compare Israel with Hamas, claiming that Hamas is the weaker part as they have less sophisticated weapons …… Hello……where are you?

Is it possible to compare an organization which is aiming at civilians with an army hitting targets to prevent them from doing so ? Can you compare the fact that thousands of Palestinians are willing to blow themselves up as suicide bombers, with bombs that are aiming at the factories that are making those explosives these people are willing to “dress up in”? (...some of these factories being inside mosques ...)
Do you know that some of the bombs which Israel is using cost up to 250.000 dollars a piece? There is no reason for anyone to believe that the Israelis do not consider very carefully when and where to drop them.
Have you ever heard of any country at war calling people by phone to warn them before the house is being targeted or that Israel has bombs that “knock” on peoples roofs in order to warn them before they explode.
Israel has nothing to gain from killing civilians.

I watched TV today as Jordan’s queen Rania appealed to the world for the situation of the people in Gaza. She was herself born to Palestinian parents, but spent her childhood in Kuwait studying at an English school and continued her studies in Cairo at an American university there. She is a beautiful young lady which has contributed a lot by speaking up for Arab women’s rights. It would be great if she could take some time trying to speak to the leaders of the Palestinians about some even more basic human rights.
Jordan has often been criticized in the Arab world for having too much of a Western focus. That was one of the issues in the late 1960’es when the Palestinians living there were trying to take over Jordan and actually made several attempts to assassinate king Hussein ( Rania’s father in law who passed away in 1999) The king decided ,back then ,to go to war against the Palestinians and killed somewhere between 2000-3000 people in an operation later to be remembered as “Black September” ( Arafat, of course, claimed 12.000-13.000 people to be killed) So the king considered it his right to fight the people who threatened the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and its leadership….
I wonder if Rania is familiar with this part of “black Palestinian history” and whether she agrees with the way the king dealt with the problem back in those days…!!?

Elin Elkouby