Comments on: Israel: Sderot's Invisible Wounds

By: Giladon-line » Blog Archive » Mediated Presence through Physical Objects

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:11:40 +0000

[...] on the viewers. For example, I will not forget an exhibit I saw in Israel this past summer, where real qassam missiles were taken from real-life bomb scenes in Sderot (an Israeli city bordering Gaza) and reproduced in a central Tel Aviv boulevard. Real rockets, real [...]

By: Ruth

Ruth — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:38:55 +0000

Jim Edwards,
Why do you persist in this line of agument? What kind of cruel and cynical person are you? WHere is your compassion for fellow humans? Sderot is in Israel proper. Poor people live there. Got that? Palestinians are not the only victims here. You are the classic example of the ideologically driven type who does not even have the basic grasp of the situation and yet feels entitled to comment. Poor Palestinials! With fools like you in their corner, no wonder they are reduced to shooting rockets at other underprivileged Israelis. And poor us , with fools like you to egg on the radicals, we will never have peace.

By: Gilad Lotan

Gilad Lotan — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:54:50 +0000

“redrawn a map”?
- I took it from wikipedia.

It is not the hardcore Zionists living in Sderot, but a lot of immigrants and low-income families. They live there because they can’t afford to live in the bigger cities.

By: Jim Edwards

Jim Edwards — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:14:26 +0000

Sderot doesn’t belong to Israel, you have your facts wrong. It is quiestionable how you could of redrawn such a simple map which clearly shows Sderot inside the Pal half of Partition.

Thieves should feel threatened. Racists should feel unwelcome. The hard core zionists who live in Sderot have carved themselves a difficult life by following the dubious precepts of Old Testament mythology – which too often reads like nation building myth.

By: Gilad Lotan

Gilad Lotan — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 07:00:39 +0000

To my knowledge, Sderot was included within the Jewish state recognized by the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_UN_Partition_Plan – back in 1947. It is not a piece of land under dispute, and legally belongs to Israel. Go check it out.

This piece is not about who’s right or wrong in this struggle, oh no. But it raises the questions a small community faces with life under constant threat, and how they deal with it. It also describes possibilities on raising awareness to topics like this, that have a smaller presence in the mainstream media.

By: Jim Edwards

Jim Edwards — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:37:35 +0000

How long does it take for the zionists of Sderot to feel peace?

Only the amount of time it takes for them to leave and have those lands returned to the Palestinians who are the legal owners.

No sympathy for your plight. If you steal land, expect consequences.

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Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:09:49 +0000

[...] Das israelische Sderot, eine Stadt von ca. 24.000 Einwohnern, ist aus traurigem Grund berühmt: Die Kleinstadt, die in unmittelbarer Nähe der palästinensischen Grenze gelegen ist, wird am häufigsten von Qassam-Raketen aus dem Gazastreifen getroffen. Längst gehört der Alarm zum Alltag – es sind auf öffentlichen Plätzen so genannte „life shields“, Unterstände aus Stahl und Beton aufgebaut worden, um den Bewohnern schnelle Schutzmöglichkeiten zu bieten. Was der dauernde Beschuss jedoch mit der Bevölkerung – abgesehen von bislang acht Toten (darunter drei Kinder) und vielen Verletzten – anrichtet, darüber schreibt auf Global Voices Gilad Lotan. [...]